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Find the old book "FLY T FOOTBALL" by Hampton ("Hamp") Pool. He used it in the 1950's with the L.A. Rams!

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Hampton Pool
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Book Description: Prentice-Hall, 1957. Book Condition: Used; Good. Hard cover, no dustjacket. Former library book, with usual stamps & stickers. Text pages unmarked. No folded page corners. Cover edge scuffed. Light general wear. Bookseller Inventory # 38258

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Hampton Pool
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Pool, Hampton
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Pool, Hampton.
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Book Description: Prentice-Hall, 1957. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket protected by mylar. Minor edgewear to jacket. Clean text, tight binding! Hardcover Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Bookseller Inventory # 119657

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Ted:

I just finished reading through your Wild Bunch playbook - great job!

I actually use Boyd theory a lot in football and teach it as well - great source - see especially the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle - certainly in play in the fly series !

Couple of questions.

I ran the same basic plays last season, with the following difference.

Wing (or motioning Z, or a Slot). I have the QB open to the side of motion and have the Fullback (ACE in our terms) dive backside play A gap, QB fakes and QB continues with back to LOS and meshes/ hands off to the Fly back, then runs boot opposite.

Your series has the QB reverse opening and meshing with the Fly back, before continuing on with the Fullback dive back .

I see your way as getting the Fly back the ball faster, but with inside flow stepping with the FB to playside.

I see my way as freezing the inside backers and then hoping the speed of my Fly back can compensate for the hesitation.

What are your thoughts going of each method.

Thank you,

MCoach

Bill:

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Find the old book "FLY T FOOTBALL" by Hampton ("Hamp") Pool. He used it in the 1950's with the L.A. Rams!

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Hamp Pool was a man half a century ahead of his time. What he was doing in LA starting in the late 40's, adapting Clark Shaughnessy's T schemes to a true 3-end offense, was just amazing. And it worked!

To my mind, the Rocket sweep series that Wofford, Navy and other flexbone teams are having such success with is nothing more than the Hamp Pool Fly-T with the pitch back coming in motion from the backside of the play. That's it -- the series are otherwise identical.

Regards,

Ted