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					Originally Posted by smileyh  Legal. A handoff is not a pass. I assume a halfback pass is some form of forward pass. | 
	
 It's legal in major codes, but some of them (NFL, CFL, Football Canada) do define handing the ball as a pass.  Those that do just make an exception so as not to count a forward handoff against the number of legal forward passes in a down.