DCHP-3

sleeper pass

Cdn Football
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a play in which a player moves to the sidelines as if moving off the field during a group substitution, then moves ahead on a quick play to receive a pass unchallenged by a defending player.

See: sleeper(def. 3)

Quotations

1966
Part of Canadian football folklore is the sleeper pass Keith Spaith threw . . . in 1948.
1966
The sleeper play was one casualty.