SINGLE WING POWER LA84 Foundation（单翼动力LA84基础）.pdf

PAGE 6 SINGLE WING POWER By Jim Campbell In the early 1930s while coaching at Bucknell, the famous offensive strategist and coach, Carl G. Snavely, said that “there is no way to improve on football beyond the unbalanced line Single-Wing.” Certainly, there are those who would take exception to Coach Snavely’s statement of years ago, but one of those would not be Keith Piper, head coach at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Piper, who was a fine single-wing center at Baldwin-Wallace during and after World War II, had his Denison teams still running the single wing; much to the chagrin of the Big Red’s opponents in the 1990s. He contended that no one really ever caught up with, or passed, the single wing offense. It just went out of style. Once college football shook itself out in the 1880s and 1890s the basic offensive formation -- as practiced by Amos Alonzo Stagg, Walter Camp, Fielding “Hurry Up” Yost, George Woodruff, John W. Heisman, and other pioneers -- was similar to a “full-house” T-formation. The legalization of the forward pass in 1906, in response to the game’s brutality, gave birth to new offensive tactics. Glenn Scobey “Pop” Warner, then riding the crest of a wave of popu