Word: wingback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football there is the Warner system, the Notre Dame system, the single wingback formation, the double wingback formation, and a host of other categories into which a man or men may fall. In tennis there is the Western grip on a racquet and there is the Eastern...
...Stanford. The Rockne system is based on deception and speed, the Warner system on deception and power. It requires a practically immovable line, to hold indefinitely while the backfield shuttles the ball back & forth in mystifying maneuvers. Essential feature of the Warner offense is the "double wing-back." A wingback is simply a halfback who takes position about a yard and a half behind the line of scrimmage and about the same distance outside his own end. When both halfbacks are in such position, it is a double wingback pattern. Some times one wingback helps his end to smash...
...N.Y.U. and Penn State. but its goal-line stand against Brown enabled it to accomplish a feat unequaled by an Eastern team since Pitt and Navy in 1910 played through a whole season with out being scored against. Brown's chief weapon this year was an unusual "triple wingback" offense, designed by Coach De Ormond ("Tuss") McLaughry to flank both tackles and one end. Colgate, coached by Andy Kerr, a wiry, witty little Scot who was Glenn Warner's predecessor at Stanford (and who, many experts think, teaches Warner football better than Wizard Warner), has an amazingly complicated...