![]() The QB makes a 180-degree pivot on the ball of his right foot and swings his left foot around - taking him over the mid line. The QB lifts his heel to start #2 (or LHB) in motion, and the ball is snapped when #2 reaches a point one full step (about four feet) from the QB. The wing is set one yard out and one year back of the TE, and the slot three yards out and one yard back of the RT. ![]() We align the tight end and wing to the left and the slot to the right. 3 shows how we run our 28 Jet Sweep (with pulling guards) from our Blue Formation. 2, with a guard and tackle pulling to lead.ĭiag. ![]() We can now block the TE-wing gap as shown in Diag. After seeing Auburn run a toss sweep to a TE-wing side, using a pulling tackle and guard, we began experimenting with our offense. In the beginning, a lot of teams had success running to the slot, but few could run the TE-wing side. We taught the ball-carrier how to get the most out of the play by taking the ball to the numbers and turning up at the sideline. We could run away from the other eight players. With the speed of the sweep, we could focus our blocking on just the three outside defenders. As we write this, Cumberland has led Division III in rushing three out of the last five years. ![]() We thought of pulling the front-side guard to get an extra blocker, but it couldn't be done fast enough.Ĭoach Herschel Moore of Cumberland University, who works at our camps, suggested a 180-degree QB pivot, with the ball being handed off to the FB in the front-side "A" gap, as shown in Diag. We discovered that we could time it better by having the QB set the running back in motion with a heel lift and having the ball snapped on "Go." The "Go" would be called as the back came within one full step of the QB, who would then make a full pivot and hand the ball off with his back to the LOS. In his Jet Sweep, Coach Hogg used a verbal starting count, with the back going in motion on "Red" and the ball being snapped on "Set Go." He had his other blockers take out their men with reach blocks, as shown in Diag. That left only the three outside defenders to block. He put a wingback or flanker in full-speed motion a yard behind the QB, who would turn and hand him the football. I began searching for something that I could use as a false key to resuscitate the Wing-T offense.Ī high school coach named Eric Hogg showed me a new play he called the Jet Sweep. I liked what they were doing and I began lecturing on it at clinics! It wasn't too long before the Buck Sweep Series wasn't scaring people anymore. While at CMU, I discovered that my defensive coaches were working on a master plan for the defense of the Buck Sweep. Over the next half-dozen years, my teams at Braddock (PA) High School went 55 games without a defeat, setting the high school record.Īs I moved into college coaching, I took the Buck Sweep with me to Rutgers, Indiana University-PA, and Carnegie Mellon U. That fall I introduced the offense to the high school game, while Sid Gillman and Dave Nelson, who had been at the same clinic, began using it on the college level. When I became a coach, I put the QB under center and began running single-wing plays with the QB taking the ball from center and handing it off.Īt a Cleveland Browns clinic in 1950, I was taught the original Buck Sweep Series by Paul Brown, who had his QB, Otto Graham, run a bootleg off it. It actually started with the Single Wing that I played under Bob Higgins at Penn State. The Wing T has been very good to me since 1948.
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