Statue of Liberty play (football)

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   "Statue of Liberty play" is not in OED.  Every touch football game, guaranteed, somebody goes in the huddle and asks to run the "Statue of Liberty play."
   A Google check of "Statue of Liberty play" and "Yost" doesn't turn up much.
   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 21 August 1946, pg. 20, col. 2:

_Fielding H. Yost_
_Dies; Michigan_
_Football Idol_
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_40 Years With School, His_
   _Teams Won Glory in New_
   _Tactics He Introduced_
   ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 20.--Fielding H. Yost, seventy-five, the grand old man of football at the Unviersity of Michigan, died at his home here today.
   Venerated by players and fans, who also knew him as "Hurry-up" Yost, he retired from Michigan athletics in 1941, after forty years' service as football coach and athletic director of the university.
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(Pg. 29, col. 4--ed.)
   _Introduced Line Shift_
   The line shift was an early Yost innovation, introduced to overcome the disadvantages of having the ball downed near the sidelines.  Sometimes, in such a position on the field, he would have the center line up at left end position and the rest of the players by twos to the center's right.  When the forward pass came to football, Yost's tactics were sufficiently confusing so that the eligible receiver often went unnoticed into the clear.
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   _"Statue of Liberty" Play_
   Among the plays that Yost developed perhaps the most famous was "Old 83," the "Statue of Liberty" play in which a back pretends to pass and another back or an end comes around behind him and takes the ball off his upraised palm.  Another was the fake place kick.
   Yost was known as "Hurry-Up" Yost from the first year at Michigan.  He never remembered accurately how he came to get the name, but a naturally nervous temperament on the football field made him a terror to the slower men at practice time.