Anybody Run the Single Wing?

Welcome Mitchdog,
I'm more a wing-t guy...don't know much about the single wing at all. I wouldn't mind looking through a copy of your playbook there.
Metz

I don't know a lot about the single wing as of now. But I have been studying it for a couple of months. We plan to install a single wing package into our base wing t package this coming year. I have been reading some books on it and bought a couple of videos. I am also looking for a coach who really knows it to maybe hold a camp for our kids this summer or take them to a good single wing camp, I just don't know of one. Anyways, any help you can give on single wing (suggestions on how to install, key components, playbooks, etc...) would be really appreciated.

dan_augustine@hotmail.com

It is great to see so much interest in the single wing. Any questions you have I would be happy to try to answer. I can't say I am a guru on it, there are many more who have forgotten more than I know. I have been coaching it for 5 years at the varsity level and truly believe it is a great offense.

These are the books I have read. I got them from an inter library loan. I also have the Aldrich video on the FB spin, it does not have sound. You can sometimes find these books on e-bay or amazon.

Modern Single Wing Football By Charles Caldwell
Simplified Single Wing Football By Ken Keuffel
Single Wing Offense with the Spinning Fullback By John Aldrich
The Modern Short Punt: A winning formation By Lou Howard
The New Double Wing Attack By Bob Tierney and Cliff Gray
Spread Formation Football By Dutch Meyer

mitchdog:

I am the OC at a high school in CA that is installing the single-wing for the first time. I have also been studying some of the books and videos you mentioned. We plan to plan to employ an unbalanced formation with a wing. We will utilize the spinning fullback, power, and buck series. Obviously teams will play an odd or even defensive front. I am interested to find out from someone who has already ran this offense and formation as to what shades, slants, stunts, and blitzes most defenses tend to employ?

I am anticipating the following fronts - is this what you see alot? Any insight you can give is appreciated.

EVEN ODD

C FS C C FS C


LB LB LB LB SS


B E T T E B E T N T E
TE LT C LG RG RT TE TE LT C LG RG RT TE
3 4 3 4

2 1 2 1

there is a single wing forum at forums.delphiforums.com/singlewing/start

Over the past 5 years are best 8 palys have been:

44 - Power off tackle
41 - Reverse to the WB of Power off tackle
32 - Fullback Spin
34 Throwback -FB hands to QB who sets up behind the outside tackle. WE runs bannana, SE runs a drag
2 Seam Buck - wedge to the unbalanced side
0 Seam Buck - trap to the weakside
66 - Buck Sweep
46 Reach Pass - Sweep Pass

Does anybody have any opinions on the double wing offense?

Mitchdog,

What school? Sounds like Stonewall Jackson in Va.

Mitchdog,

I'm tinkering with incorporating Meyer's TCU Spread set into my offensive package. I've seen some updated materials from Ted Seay, and last season I had a Double Slot-balanced line package in which I kept my QB (FB in SW terms) and TB in the same backfield location as my base SW package. Meyer's Spread looks to be a good compliment. Do you spread it out any?

What kinds of looks give you single wingers the most problems?

In other words, what do you not like to see from a defense?

Yes, the freshmen run it. They have a real colorful coach. He posts on the other single wing board under the name SicVic.

Our play-actions were great in negating a 7 man front. The WB Sweep Pass to the End on a delayed corner route was a real killer.

I've used Coach Campbell's Single Wing offense over the past three seasons as a contrast to our (10-12 year olds) I and gun formation running game and have found it very effective. I had to modify the QB and TB alignments because it was too difficult for my center to constantly adjust from snapping the ball straight back in a traditional gun to a single wing snap. We run 148/149 Sweep, 18/19 Keep, 348/349 Buck Sweep (Power) and 12/13 ISO, 12/13 FB Trap, and 128/129 Sweep (Opposite).