[Husker] Wildcat formation (fwd)

Mike Nolan nolan at romaine.tssi.com
Wed Oct 14 12:30:22 CDT 2009


> Ok so the ball carrier could any skill position player ? And Suh seems to r=
> un well with the ball.

Suh wears number 93.  I don't recall if he would have to report in as 
an eligible ball carrier.  Of course, he'd be hard for the defense to miss 
if he came in on offense, so deception isn't really the point anyway.

When I was in high school (in NW Illinois) we played 8 man football.  (We 
were the last school in Illinois playing 8 man football, in an otherwise 
all-Wisconsin league.  My freshman year we went undefeated, almost unscored
upon, and the Chicago Tribune ran a story proclaiming us the 8 man champions 
of both Illinois and Wisconsin.)  

My junior year we had a player who was far and away the biggest guy in
school and probably the league, 6'4" 300 pounds, not big by TODAY'S 
standards, but this was the 60's and a small town.  We had to order a 
custom helmet for him.

He was our center, so Coach came up with an unbalanced line formation 
that made him an eligible receiver.  I think during that season 
they threw five passes to him.  He caught three of them.  Two of them 
he scored on, on one them he was dragging two players who tried to leg 
tackle him the last ten yards.  
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Mike Nolan



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