FB: Centennial Conference

[muledaddy]

Greek,

I will see you at the conference championship team banquet,same time, same place as last year..I think

it may be a little longer this year because of the number of seniors, but that's ok by me...I will savor every

moment, reflecting on the 4 years which have flown by like a dream come true...since our boys first met

on move-in day for camp in freshman summer.......now they are men.....CC/D3 football has done us a

great service........its lessons have been well learned by the Mules...its been a nice run.....

[Buck Lateral]

Greetings,

I don't know if this is the right place to be asking such questions; but I was wondering if anyone had an opinion about which of the CC schools would be the best fit for a spread QB. My son is starting to look at schools and were trying to steer him in the direction of  the Centennial Conference. Specifically  I'd love to hear opinions on which schools have the best QB coach and where a QB can compete on his merits.

Thank you in advance for any info/opinions.

[muledaddy]

Dear Buck,

Come to Muhlenberg, the CC conference champs for the past 2 years.The 1st team all CC qb is

a graduating senior named Erik Santagato.He competed with 3 or 4 others as a freshman to win the job,

and performed well to keep it. The Mule coach, and his staff, know how to handle young men and give

them every chance to compete, fairly, for playing time.The best 11 players will be on the field at all times.

The boys learn a great deal about themselves, life, and teamwork, maturing nicely along the way. This is
as good as it gets in D3, academics being most important, but competition being rugged.

[old ends]

Buck Lateral

Here are a couple of links to help you.

1. Centennial Conference has some game footage on You tube
  here is the link http://www.youtube.com/centennialconference

2. also facebook http://www.facebook.com/ ( I do not have a facebook account so I do not know how it works

3. Go on the Conference web site look at roosters and stats.

4. By now most of the posters are doing other things waiting for football season to return. Some of the parents still read, but you can look back on some of the post and get a feel for different teams.

Enjoy

[CC12]

If he is a runner, go to Dickinson, you see what they do with the option game. Perfect for spread QB

[Buck Lateral]

Thank you all for your input. I wouldn't characterize my son as an option QB, but he can run. He seems to be most effective from the shotgun. Is there a CC team that runs exclusively or predominantly from the gun?

Thanks again

[Warren Thompson]

A post from [screen name] "Buck Lateral"? In this day and age, I'm shocked that anyone still knows what the buck lateral series was/is. (In the 1950s, to show my age, I recall that it was a staple in the Princeton single-wing.)

[BTEXPRESS]

Warren, it is nice of you to grace us with your words of wisdom on the Centennial board. It is not everyday that we get a Hall of Fame poster on here. I am probably not as old as you but you are right, have not heard the words Buck Lateral in a few years. Now we just talk about Spread Offense, the West Coast Offense and the latest, THE WILDCAT. Speaking of spread offenses, I don't think there is a team in the CC who only uses the shot gun. Most of the teams seem to run the spread in some variation but not the shot gun 100% of the time.

[Buck Lateral]

Warren, I responded to your e-mail, but also wanted to say on this board that there is a considerable renaissance in the ancient formations of football. Today's spread offense is regarded as latest hottest thing. However, its original form came  spread formation invented by Coach Leo R. "Dutch" Meyer in the 1930's at Texas Christian University. Miami's wildcat looks a lot like some of the early belly series from a variety of practitioners including Biggie Munn at Minnesta I believe. In any event, it's great to see how today's best football minds are adapting the foundations of the game to today's athlete.

[Superfoot Wallace]

Sometimes bits of history get lost or misconstrued along the way too.

Formationally, Walter Camp's original T formation had the signal caller a quarter of the way into the backfield, hence the title - quarterback.

Most identify the T quarterback with the under center variety, but the pistol variety as Camp actually employed retains or should say holds the potential for some of the ball wizardry almost nonexistent from shotgun.

signed,
Dan Fouts

http://dumcoach.com/mswf/mswf.pdf

[Ralph Turner]

Warren, I responded to your e-mail, but also wanted to say on this board that there is a considerable renaissance in the ancient formations of football. Today's spread offense is regarded as latest hottest thing. However, its original form came  spread formation invented by Coach Leo R. "Dutch" Meyer in the 1930's at Texas Christian University. Miami's wildcat looks a lot like some of the early belly series from a variety of practitioners including Biggie Munn at Minnesta I believe. In any event, it's great to see how today's best football minds are adapting the foundations of the game to today's athlete.

Buck, as a football historian, you probably saw the obituary of Sam Baugh (former Washington Redskin and former Hardin-Simmons head coach during their Border Conference days).

[Buck Lateral]

Yes I did Ralph. I'm sure you're also aware that Baugh was the original spread QB playing for the TCU  Horned Frogs under Dutch Meyer. What I'm unsure of is whether Baugh's skills led Meyer to develop the spread or if Slinging Sammy was recruited to bring an already-conceived offense to its fullest potential. At any rate, in today's vernacular- Baugh was a beast and that offense was tailor-made for him.

[Warren Thompson]

Today's spread offense is regarded as latest hottest thing. However, its original form came  spread formation invented by Coach Leo R. "Dutch" Meyer in the 1930's at Texas Christian University.

As a ninth-grader I was fortunate to see the TCU spread in action: it was 1949 and the Frogs took down the Longhorns in Austin. The TCU tailback, I recall, was Lindy Berry.

[Warren Thompson]

Warren, I responded to your e-mail, but also wanted to say on this board that there is a considerable renaissance in the ancient formations of football. Today's spread offense is regarded as latest hottest thing. However, its original form came  spread formation invented by Coach Leo R. "Dutch" Meyer in the 1930's at Texas Christian University. Miami's wildcat looks a lot like some of the early belly series from a variety of practitioners including Biggie Munn at Minnesta I believe. In any event, it's great to see how today's best football minds are adapting the foundations of the game to today's athlete.

There's a different sort of "Wildcat" formation run by a high school in Virginia. It aligns all four backs, essentially shoulder-to-shoulder to each other, about a yard behind the offensive line. The coach says the center can snap the ball back or even roll it to one of them.

As I recall, Meyer already had a version of the spread in place when he recruited Baugh. He then tweaked it to take better advantage of Baugh's skills as a passer.

Out of curiosity, I wonder if any team runs the "A formation," as originally popularized by the NY Giants under Steve Owen.

[Warren Thompson]

Sometimes bits of history get lost or misconstrued along the way too.

Formationally, Walter Camp's original T formation had the signal caller a quarter of the way into the backfield, hence the title - quarterback.

Most identify the T quarterback with the under center variety, but the pistol variety as Camp actually employed retains or should say holds the potential for some of the ball wizardry almost nonexistent from shotgun.

At one time, the rules dictated that the quarterback in the T formation had to be set at least a yard behind the center (thus no "man-under" alignment).