Football passing machines

A football passer comprising a frame, a rigid guide rod fixed at one end on said frame and extending angularly upward therefrom spaced from the frame over its entire length to a free end, an elongate elastomeric sling means fixed at opposite ends to said frame spaced on opposite sides of said free end of said guide rod, latch means on said frame adjacent said fixed one end of the guide rod, said latch means engaging said elastomeric sling means intermediate its ends when said sling is stretched along the guide rod to said one end, timer control means on the frame at said one end of the guide rod controlling the timed release of said latch means and said elastomeric sling means, and a football having a central axial end to end passage slidably and rotatably received on said guide rod and freely movable, under impulse of said elastomeric sling means along the entire length of said guide rod spaced from the frame.