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Month: September 2011



MANSFIELD OFF TO WEST POINT

The Mansfield Sprint football team is off to West Point to take on the Black Knights of Army in what should be a very entertaining gridiron match up.  The game will be played at 7 pm at Shea Stadium located…



MANSFIELD RUNS FOR 322 YARDS

The Mansfield University varsity football team set a Mansfield Sprint record for rushing yards in a game (322) as the Mounties beat Princeton 40-2.   In addition to the rushing yards record, the Mountie offense also set records for rush attempts…



MANSFIELD VS PRINCETON

Mansfield’s triple option attack is setting its sights on the Tigers from Princeton this Saturday at 1 pm.  With many Freshmen on the offensive side of the ball, this is a work in progress but after a great week of…



MANSFIELD DROPS SEASON OPENER TO CORNELL

The Mansfield University Sprint football team started the 2011 season on a sour note dropping a very closely contested game to Cornell 37-23. The Mounties got off to a great start as Freshman QB Mike Maniscalco took the ball off…



NEW QB SWEEP PLAY

Given that I will always have one of my best athletes at the QB position, I really enjoy running this quick hitting QB sweep play.  Why not have the ball in the hands of your best athlete on the perimeter?



A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Steve Specht

When Steve Specht was a senior at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 1985, one of the assistant coaches on the staff was Urban Meyer. More than 25 years later, Meyer has won two National Championships while at Florida…



READING STACKS IN THE TRIPLE

There are many option coaches out there who will not teach their QBs to read “the stack” during the triple.  Suffice to say that their is indeed two sides to this story.  Many high school coaches simply do not want…