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Football Coach’s Family Is The Target Of Threats
From WNEP-TV (Moosic, Pa.)
There will be some changes at a high school football game Friday after threats were made against the coach’s family. The family who has been targeted confirms the threats came in person and over the internet. The...
Football: Secondary drills for man coverage
Man-to-man coverage begins with the proper alignment of the defensive backs to the receivers at the line of scrimmage (LOS). This normally places the cornerbacks 5-7 yards off of the LOS, with an inside shade on the receivers. At the snap of the b...
Football Coach Killed By Train In Apparent Suicide
From The Belleville News (Ill.)
BELLEVILLE -- The Sparta High School head football coach was struck and killed by a train about 1 p.m. Monday in Belleville in an apparent suicide, authorities said.St. Clair County Coroner Rick Stone identifie...
Football Team With Lead At Half Forced To Forfeit
From rivals.yahoo.com
Earlier this fall, Prep Rally told you about the Seattle high school that was forced to forfeit at halftime after six first-half injuries decimated its roster. Well, as drastic as that case was, a forfeit the same day in So...
Football: Teaching the combo block
Techniques for making the combo block an effective part of your running game The combination (combo) block is an easy way to get a body on one defender while picking off another to give your running game a distinct advantage. In the combo block, ...
1 Prep Football Season, 1,800 Hits To The Head
From the Los Angeles Times
We can see it — maybe even feel it in our teeth — when the Chicago Bears’ Jay Cutler goes down with a concussion after being sacked nine times or a local high school player is pulled from a game afte...
Security Increases At Iowa Football Games
From the Chicago Tribune
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Records show the number of police officers at University of Iowa home football games has nearly tripled over the last six years. The Gazette newspaper in Cedar Rap...
Football Coach Who Lost Leg In Iraq Continues Work
Nathan Potts, the football coach who took a leave of absence from coaching after 9/11 to join the Army, has returned to coach as an assistant at Shepherd High (Texas) despite losing one of his legs in Iraq. The Houston Chronicle profiled him today.ht...
Filmaker Doing Documentary On Football Coach With ALS
Atlanta filmmaker Rick Cohen has been following around Greenville High (Ga.) football coach Jeremy Williams for a documentary called "Season Of A Lifetime." Williams suffers from ALS and the film documents how he manages to continue coaching while ba...