Just food for thought. The Wishbone was one of many offenses that was developed from the Double Wing. The Double Wing has contributed to the development of the: Wishbone, Wing T, Straight T, I, Power I, Spread Wing T, and probably several more. I would even venture a guess that many teams that run some kind of spread offense still find some of their running game from one, or more, of these offenses. Many of them still get their run blocking schemes from one of these offenses, and may even get there backfield motions from one of these offenses. After all, they are proven methods of running the ball. Almost every team has some kind of "Trap" play, and many have some kind of "read" play where the QB reads to hand off or pull the ball.

 

Is the Wishbone still ran? Yes, it is, and many times you may not even realize it. The Wishbone philosophy is ran a lot, the formation may be a little different though. Remember, the wishbone is an offense, not a formation.

Just food for thought. The Wishbone was one of many offenses that was developed from the Double Wing. The Double Wing has contributed to the development of the: Wishbone, Wing T, Straight T, I, Power I, Spread Wing T, and probably several more. I would even venture a guess that many teams that run some kind of spread offense still find some of their running game from one, or more, of these offenses. Many of them still get their run blocking schemes from one of these offenses, and may even get there backfield motions from one of these offenses. After all, they are proven methods of running the ball. Almost every team has some kind of "Trap" play, and many have some kind of "read" play where the QB reads to hand off or pull the ball.

 

Is the Wishbone still ran? Yes, it is, and many times you may not even realize it. The Wishbone philosophy is ran a lot, the formation may be a little different though. Remember, the wishbone is an offense, not a formation.

 

Excellent post Ram. The older offenses like the DW, Bone, Singlewing are still around, just packed much differently. Seems like Meyer's offense at Florida has alot of wishbone and power elements to it. :thumb:

Exactly, the Florida offense is more Double Wing and Wishbone than anything. Like you said, just packaged differently. If there is any doubt from anyone, do some research on the Jump Pass, that was Meyer's paying homage to his base offense, and Tebow did it beautifully.

 

Excellent post Ram. The older offenses like the DW, Bone, Singlewing are still around, just packed much differently. Seems like Meyer's offense at Florida has alot of wishbone and power elements to it. :thumb:

Exactly, the Florida offense is more Double Wing and Wishbone than anything. Like you said, just packaged differently. If there is any doubt from anyone, do some research on the Jump Pass, that was Meyer's paying homage to his base offense, and Tebow did it beautifully.

 

Interestingly enough, I even think some unexpected pro-style offenses fit under this as well. Boise State seems to have some old school power football, they use motion and formations to overload the point of attack instead of condensed formations and only pulling linemen, especially when the go power off-tackle. It's out there, just hidden behind all kinds of window dressing.

 

As for straight up Wishbone, the last times I saw Belfry and Johnson Central (which was 2 years ago) it seemed like they both ran quite a bit out of the bone.

Thanks for the info RAM, it is good to know the History behind the Scheme.

The wish bone attack has been a big part of Danville's State Championships all the way back to Tom Duffy in the early 80's. If you have speed and athletes it is hard to stop.

The wish bone attack has been a big part of Danville's State Championships all the way back to Tom Duffy in the early 80's. If you have speed and athletes it is hard to stop.

 

This makes any offense hard to stop

Just food for thought. The Wishbone was one of many offenses that was developed from the Double Wing. The Double Wing has contributed to the development of the: Wishbone, Wing T, Straight T, I, Power I, Spread Wing T, and probably several more. I would even venture a guess that many teams that run some kind of spread offense still find some of their running game from one, or more, of these offenses. Many of them still get their run blocking schemes from one of these offenses, and may even get there backfield motions from one of these offenses. After all, they are proven methods of running the ball. Almost every team has some kind of "Trap" play, and many have some kind of "read" play where the QB reads to hand off or pull the ball.

 

Is the Wishbone still ran? Yes, it is, and many times you may not even realize it. The Wishbone philosophy is ran a lot, the formation may be a little different though. Remember, the wishbone is an offense, not a formation.

 

The Wishbone is a formation and not an offense. Veer is an offense that can be run out of the Wishbone (or orignally called the Y formation in Texas where it came from) among other offensive schemes. The Double Wing is a formation and is also the name commonly used for an offense (Estill and Morgan Co run the double wing) which is based in part off of Don Markham's offense.

 

Now what they do at FL among many other places goes back forever ago. They are running power and counter schemes (block down and kick out with the back for power and with the pulling G typically on counter). FL also uses a veer scheme which they added along the last year Tebow was there. During Tebow stint it was closer to the old Redskin running game. Much of the blocking scheme in truth came from Louisville. Rocket sweep which is commonly given credit to Cumberland University honestly was being run in a version with the 50s LA Rams. Dutch Meyer was running 5 wide, wide splits and a version of Jet sweep at TCU when he had Sammy Baugh.

 

People tend to get formations and offenses confused. Formations are how one aligns. The offense is the systematic approach of what and how a team does something. Its the technique, blocking scheme, and play packaging.