Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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Post by Coach Campbell on Dec 29, 2002 8:52:06 GMT
In 1921 Robert Zuppke famous football coach introduces the Huddle. Teams no longer lined up immediately after the ball was downed, waiting for it to be snapped on a pre-signal. Instead, they gathered in a huddle around the play caller, who gave the signal as well as the next play. At the time Robert Zuppke came in for severe criticism for this huddle. But it soon grew popular, especially after Illinois took the national title in 1923. Book: The Story Of Football by Robert Leckie
It goes to show that everything in this game has a cycle. Even the huddle which teams have now begun to work without. What I find interesting is what you were talking about at the Burlington clinic about the start of the game in Western Europe. How the bladders were kicked around by the invaders from the North. On of the more famous groups of Germanic invaders was the Lombards who stormed down and began to conquer land. Through immigration as most immigrants especially Italian-Americans (because they could not speak the language) took the surname of thier cities and villiages you have the name Lombardi in America. I guess that the Lombardi's truely had football in thier blood. Great site coach, keep having fun!
Again this is an awesome website!! I learned in college during a Coaching Theories class, that the first to ever use the huddle was Gauludette University (an all deaf school) out side of Washington D.C. They made the huddle to keep people from seeing there hand signals? Is this true? I later had the privledge of playing against them in football while in college.