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Use strategies straight from many of football’s all-time greatest coaches! Offensive Football Strategies offers you special access to the sharpest football minds in the game’s history. Pick and choose portions to use to optimize your game plan each season and each game.

Offensive Football Strategies is the most comprehensive and detailed book of its kind, containing the most popular and effective offensive philosophies, systems, formations, and plays over the past 40 years. This extensive collection includes 73 articles written by many of the greatest coaching strategists, including Bob Devaney, Bear Bryant, John McKay, Joe Paterno, Tom Osborne, Marv Levy, Hayden Fry, LaVell Edwards, Steve Spurrier, and many more.

The articles are organized into the following sections:

• Developing a System
• Attacking the Defense
• Building Backfield Excellence
• Running the Wing-T
• Running From the I
• Running the Wishbone
• Running the Veer
• Running an Option Offense
• Establishing a Passing Scheme
• Passing From Sets and Formations
• Keeping the Defense on Edge
• Incorporating Play-Action
• Creating Quality Quarterback Play
• Protecting the Passer
• Gaining Key Yardage
• Dominating the Red Zone

Developed in cooperation with the American Football Coaches Association, Offensive Football Strategies is loaded with more than 700 X-and-O diagrams. Whether you are seeking another option for your running or passing attack, or looking for that sure-fire scoring play in the red zone, this book offers a wealth of winning strategies for your game plan.

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“Since entering the coaching profession in 1972, I’ve gained a great deal of insight from many different coaches to form my strategic approach to the game, Now one of the very best collections of offensive football wisdom is available in one book from the American Football Coaches Association. Offensive Football Strategies features the schemes, formations and plays that have been producing points, wins, and championships for the past 40 years. It doesn’t matter if you’re a high school or college coach, or what offensive philosophy you have, this book provides a wealth of information for a more successful scoring attack.”

Phillip Fulmer

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Product Details

Paperback: 323 pages
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (February 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0736001395
ISBN-13: 978-0736001397
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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front side tackle, back side receiver, play side number, side defensive guard, back side tackle, flanker square, front side guard, noseguard slants, back side guard, play side tackle, play side guard, onside tackle, gut zone, onside slot, goal line package, veer scheme, onside guard, outside veer, man blocking scheme, veer block, waggle pass, veer series, goal line area, offside tackle, goal line offense

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Summer Manual, Double Eagle, Spread Left, Bill Yeoman, Homer Smith, Heavy Doubles, Notre Dame, Texas Tech, Boston College, Down-and-Distance Decisions, Twins Open, Virginia Tech, Joe Montana, Ole Miss, Series Our, Spread Right, Syracuse University, University of Delaware, University of Houston, University of Toledo, Wide Twin

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Football Coaching Strategies by American Football Coaches Association in Back Matter
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4.0 out of 5 stars One of the Most Comprehensive Guides to Offensive Football, April 7, 2000

By	Lee Weber (Hays, Kansas) - See all my reviews

This book is one of the most comprehensive guides to offense that I have ever encountered. It includes almost 750 diagrammed plays from some of the top names in football including Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne, as well as many other college and high school football coaches. This text would be a valuable addition to any coaches library. It will definitely add variety to any offense and add many new twists and schemes to any offense whether you have an option team or a passing based offense. I think it would be a very wise investment.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Strategic is right, June 1, 2001

By	G Kenmore (BC, Canada) - See all my reviews

I've read quite a few books on the game of football. Not being a coach, I don't think most people would want to pick this up, but for those who love the game itself will find this an indispensible reference. The book is composed of short articles by college coaches which deal with one small apspect of offence or a certain type of attack at a time. Although the college game is much simpler than the NFL, the insights I've picked up by reading this book have completely changed the way I watch football, be it college, CFL, or NFL. If I move to a different location where I can join a high school coaching team, this book will be soon find the pages being worn out. Absolutely excellent!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Aid For Intermediate Coaches, November 30, 2002

By	Edmond E. Seay III (Brussels, Belgium) - See all my reviews

AFCA and Human Kinetics have produced a gem of a book which will be of most help to intermediate coaches -- that is, those who have a few years' experience under their belts, and are looking for new ideas in offensive systems, or for new plays to run from within their favorite offensive system.

While the age of some of the articles may seem troubling, it can in fact be a real advantage. Football offenses are so subject to trends and cycles that anything which is not current can be successful because it comes as a surprise. A defensive analogy would be the 5-2 defense -- "America's defense" throughout the 70's and much of the 80's, but almost unknown in some regions today, and thus a valuable surprise weapon.

The same holds true on offense, and the riches this book displays are a real treasure trove -- the triple option (from the wishbone, I formation and split-back veer); the Wing-T; and various pass-oriented spread and one-back systems are all covered by some of the most prominent names in coaching from the last three decades.

This isn't the best place to start for beginning coaches, nor the modern state of the art for cutting-edge types, but for the rest of us it is an excellent place to begin the next stage of our never-ending quest for football knowledge.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid info for all coaching levels
The book is geared for high school and college, but as a pre high school coach, I found alot of information to help at the youth level. Read more

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