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sleeper pass Cdn Football

• 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 also: sleeper (def. 3)  

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