Secrets of the Split T, part 1: Football never changes

\uf611 Tweet (4) \uf610 Share \uf650 Pin Don Faurot is certainly prevalent in the bullet-point version of Missouri's football history. He played and coached for the Tigers. He was, until Gary Pinkel passed him, Mizzou's winningest head coach. He makes appearances in Mizzou's football intro video...

...and most fans have some general knowledge about his formation of the Split-T formation and the impact it had on college football offenses in the 1940s and beyond. But what exactly was the Split-T? What impact did it really have? Lucky for us, Faurot wrote a book on the subject in 1950. It was called, naturally, Secrets of the "Split T" Formation, and I procured a copy of it a while back.…