From the Back Cover
Score early! Score often!
Too many high school coaches select their offenses each year by emulating their most successful college or professional counterparts. Today's flashiest innovation becomes tomorrow's most copied.
Now, the SIMPLE SIX'S fresh approach shows how to design your own blueprint for success.
This direct, logical, and easy-to-understand concept is broad enough to allow flexibility in personnel use, yet strong enough to carry over from game-to-game and season-to-season.
About the Author
Don Schnake graduated from Centralia (Illinois) High School in 1946. He received his BS from Bradley University and an MS from Northern Illinois.
He taught and coached at Illinois high schools in Charleston, Aledo, Vandalia, and Elk Grove Village. In addition to serving as athletic director, his career included head coaching responsibilities in baseball, basketball, cross-country, football and track. Football writers selected his 1972 Elk Grove football team as the Illinois mythical state champions.
During the 1960's, he contributed a regular column to the Chicago Daily News as a member of the newspaper's All-State Basketball Board.
In 1987, after 35 years as an educator, Schnake retired and was inducted into the Illinois Football Coaches Hall of Fame.
In 1992, he authored the award-winning biography TROUT: The Old Man and the Orphans. Another of his books, COACHING 101: Guiding the High School Athlete and Building Team Success, is also available.
