Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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Post by Coach Campbell on May 15, 2005 15:19:49 GMT
Coach Zuppke ran single- and double-wing formations at the University of Illinois, often sending four or five receivers downfield in pass patterns. At Notre Dame in 1923 and 1924, Rockne instituted his famous Four Horsemen offense. Rockne set up the backs in a four-square, box alignment on one side. Then, in what was called the Notre Dame Shift, the backs would shift out of the box and into a single or double wing.
Coach - Knute Rockne put the ND "BOX" in several years before he had the "Four Horsemen" backfield. It went back to Jesse Harper's days as coach at ND.
Knute Rockne has (last time I heard) a grandson coaching High School Football. He sent me a copy of a ND playbook pre-dating the "4 Horsemen" days, when Frank Thomas was his QB (Thomas coached Bear Bryant at Ala.).
Rockne shifted from a FULL T to the "BOX". I have the 1928 Notre Dame-Geoirgia Tech film. Also - the training film Rockne made on the offense.