sentences:  Cochems died after a long illness on April 9, 1953 in the same Madison hospital in which his 14th grandchild had been born a week earlier.Recognition of Cochems' role in the development of the forward pass has been inconsistent.Following the first season in which the play was legal, Walter Camp chose Cochems to write the only article on the forward pass in the 1907 edition of Spalding's "How to Play Foot Ball", which Camp edited.