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Secrets of the Split T, part 3: The staples

Following two fun, exciting introductory chapters, in which he shares the whys, whens, and whats of the offense he created, Don Faurot gets to work. Part II of Football: Secrets of the "Split T" Offense focuses on the nitty gritty of the offense -- the base plays, the constraints, and how you try to operate against different defensive alignments.

Granted, the alignments themselves have changed (in each chapter, Faurot discusses how to operate each play when facing defenses like the 6-2-2-1, 5-3-2-1, 7-1-2-1, etc., not the 4-3, 3-4, 4-2-5, or 3-3-5), but the method of crafting an offense hasn't changed much in the 65 years since Faurot wrote this book.