Geirean Hatchett, 5* 2020 OL, Ferndale, WA (COMMITTED)

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AIRWOLF said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

AIRWOLF said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

People out here mixing up out here the beauty of option football with shitass wing-t

If you don't think a well-executed Wing-T buck sweep is a thing of almost erotic beauty then I just can't even...

Granted.

But lest we forget, wing-t was developed out of necessity, because Delaware didn't have a QB or good linemen.

And the wishbone was invented because Darrell Royal didn't have fullbacks that were quick enough to hit the A gaps out of the T-formation (because segregation). Necessity is the mother of invention and all that BS.

Emory Bellard invented the wishbone and was hired by Royal. He went on to coach at Miss State

All from memory like pup. You guys google

AIRWOLF said:

RaceBannon said:

AIRWOLF said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

AIRWOLF said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

People out here mixing up out here the beauty of option football with shitass wing-t

If you don't think a well-executed Wing-T buck sweep is a thing of almost erotic beauty then I just can't even...

Granted.

But lest we forget, wing-t was developed out of necessity, because Delaware didn't have a QB or good linemen.

And the wishbone was invented because Darrell Royal didn't have fullbacks that were quick enough to hit the A gaps out of the T-formation (because segregation). Necessity is the mother of invention and all that BS.

Emory Bellard invented the wishbone and was hired by Royal. He went on to coach at Miss State

All from memory like pup. You guys google

And then I did Google it:

According to Barry Switzer, it was Charles “Spud” Cason, football coach at William Monnig Junior High School of Fort Worth, Texas, who first modified the classic T formation in order “to get a slow fullback into the play quicker.”

Based on this, we are both wrong or Switzer is a liar. Abundance is also a strong possibility.

I would bet money that Texas beat OU to the wishbone which is why Barry would have good reason to lie about it

Also possible it was invented in more than one place

Emory Dilworth Bellard (December 17, 1927 – February 10, 2011)[1] was a college football coach. He was head coach at Texas A&M University from 1972 to 1978 and at Mississippi State University from 1979 until 1985. Bellard died on February 10, 2011 after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) since the fall of 2010.[2]

Bellard is a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. He was considered to have had one of the most innovative offensive minds in football and is credited for inventing the wishbone formation.

High school[edit]
Bellard was a high school head coach for 21 seasons, where he achieved a record of 177–59–9 and won three state titles. During his time as a high school coach, he explored the idea of running an offense out of a three-back formation.

Bellard began coaching at Ingleside High School, a Class B school in Ingleside, Texas. He guided the school to two consecutive regional wins (as far as Class B football went) in 1953 and 1954, and a street near Ingleside High School is named after him.[4] He was then hired to succeed Joe Kerbel at Breckenridge High School, then a state powerhouse in the second-highest UIL classification. Under coach Kerbel and his predecessor Cooper Robbins, Breckenridge won three 3A state championships in 1951, 1952, and 1954. Bellard continued that winning tradition with state titles in 1958 and 1959.

In 1960, Bellard was selected over Gordon Wood to replace Bob Harrell as head coach at Central High School in San Angelo, Texas. San Angelo Central was playing in the highly competitive District 2-4A, nicknamed the "Little Southwest Conference", against perennial state champions such as Abilene and Odessa Permian. Bellard amassed a 59–19–2 record at San Angelo Central, winning a 4A state championship in 1966. He then left the high school ranks for the University of Texas at Austin.

In 1988, Bellard returned to the high school level, coaching Spring Westfield High School near Houston, Texas, to a 41–22–5 record over six seasons.

College[edit]
Texas[edit]
In 1967, Bellard was hired as the linebackers coach at the University of Texas at Austin and was moved to offensive coordinator in 1968. At this time, he developed and implemented the wishbone formation, a system inspired by the variations of the veer developed by Homer Rice and run by Bill Yeoman at the University of Houston.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_Bellard