Spring/Summer 7-on-7 Football: How Coaches Can Build Quarterbacks, Receivers, DBs and Team Chemistry
Spring/Summer 7-on-7 Football: A Coach’s Guide to Making It Count Spring and summer 7-on-7 football has become one of the most useful off-season tools available to high school football coaches. It is not real football in the full sense. There…
Power Run Game & The Spread
The Power Run Game and the Spread Offense – Can They Co-Exist? by: Dale L. Sprague 3 Since the popularization of the numerous forms of the spread offense in the late 1990’s and now into the new millennium, many…
Maximizing the 3 x 1 Formation
by Doug Heslip The trips formation has multiple combinations of plays that can give a defensive coordinator coverage nightmares. The 3 x 1 formation is an offensive set that puts your best athletes in a position to use their explosive…
THE H.O.P.E FOUNDATION: An Update for 2015
Hugh Freeze, the head football coach at the University of Mississippi, is considered by many as this season’s Football Bowl Subdivision Coach of the Year. He led the Rebels to a regular season of 9-3, a top twenty ranking, and…
A Legendary Kansas High School Coach
Bill Freeman was a legendary high school football coach. One of the most successful football coaches in Kansas history, Freeman had an overall record of 242-81-3 over a 36-year career. Now 83, Freeman suffers from Alzheimer’s and is living in…
100 Yards of Memories
Retired coach Ed McQuary recently published a book reflecting on his 47 years as a coach. In those seasons, he won over 330 games, was Oregon Coach of the Year and won a big school state championship. His proudest accomplishment…
A Tribute to a Young Coach
Frank DiCocco was a frequent contributor to both American Football Monthly and Gridiron Strategies. He primarily wrote about defense, and, more specifically, the 4-2-5 defense. Both a high school and college coach, Frank tragically passed away last spring at 29…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of – Bob Beatty
Trinity High School in Louisville recently finished 14th in USA’s Final Top 25 Prep Poll. They had a 13-1 record and were crowned 6A State Champions. Trinity has now won 22 State Championships and amassed eight undefeated seasons. It is…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of – Chuck Kyle
Chuck Kyle was a running back on the undefeated St. Ignatius High School team (Cleveland) in 1968. He then played briefly at John Carroll University before an injury shortened his career. After earning his undergraduate degree, Kyle returned to St….
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of – Brian Hales
Model and actress Brooklyn Decker is listed as one of the outstanding graduates of Butler High School in Matthews, NC. What’s also getting recognition recently is the performance of the football team – Butler is currently ranked #6 in the…