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Post by carookie on Jul 12, 2014 18:38:52 GMT -6
Sending this one out to the more experienced coaches on here. There has been a lot of chatter about how much we do now, and how things are changing. My HS playing days were the mid 90s, my coaching days the mid 00s to now; other than having hudl to watch films at home now I don't see much difference (in general) between what we ask kids to do.
So I am wondering what were kids asked to do in the 70s and 80s in regards to offseason wts, running, practice, and passing tournaments? Was there a sudden jump somewhere, a gradual growth, or was it fairly similar to what you do now anyways?
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Post by fantom on Jul 12, 2014 19:09:55 GMT -6
Sending this one out to the more experienced coaches on here. There has been a lot of chatter about how much we do now, and how things are changing. My HS playing days were the mid 90s, my coaching days the mid 00s to now; other than having hudl to watch films at home now I don't see much difference (in general) between what we ask kids to do. So I am wondering what were kids asked to do in the 70s and 80s in regards to offseason wts, running, practice, and passing tournaments? Was there a sudden jump somewhere, a gradual growth, or was it fairly similar to what you do now anyways? In the offseason my first year of HS football in '67 the workout consisted of giving each of us a pamphlet from the President's Council on Youth Fitness and telling us when practice started in August. The pamphlet consisted of exercises, along with pictures illustrating them, and advice to drink a lot of ice tea (it was sponsored by Lipton). After my soph year we jointured into a bigger school and had a real offseason program. In the winter and spring we did some lifting and agility drills with some running. In the summer we'd lift three times a week, pretty much on our own in the weight room, and maybe did some position drills. A couple of nights a week we ran plays for about an hour. It was pretty rudimentary stuff but it was miles ahead of most other programs in our area. 7-on-7's? Haha. Good one.
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Post by bluedevil4 on Jul 12, 2014 20:51:05 GMT -6
Sending this one out to the more experienced coaches on here. There has been a lot of chatter about how much we do now, and how things are changing. My HS playing days were the mid 90s, my coaching days the mid 00s to now; other than having hudl to watch films at home now I don't see much difference (in general) between what we ask kids to do. So I am wondering what were kids asked to do in the 70s and 80s in regards to offseason wts, running, practice, and passing tournaments? Was there a sudden jump somewhere, a gradual growth, or was it fairly similar to what you do now anyways? In the offseason my first year of HS football in '67 the workout consisted of giving each of us a pamphlet from the President's Council on Youth Fitness and telling us when practice started in August. The pamphlet consisted of exercises, along with pictures illustrating them, and advice to drink a lot of ice tea (it was sponsored by Lipton). After my soph year we jointured into a bigger school and had a real offseason program. In the winter and spring we did some lifting and agility drills with some running. In the summer we'd lift three times a week, pretty much on our own in the weight room, and maybe did some position drills. A couple of nights a week we ran plays for about an hour. It was pretty rudimentary stuff but it was miles ahead of most other programs in our area. 7-on-7's? Haha. Good one. 7-on-7's: I'm jokingly imagining 7 O-linemen and 7 DL/LB's duking it out in a boxing ring. Offense runs a scheme, defense reacts, they go at it for five seconds, whistle, huddle, repeat.
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Post by rsmith627 on Jul 12, 2014 21:14:19 GMT -6
We had to walk 15 miles uphill both ways to get to practice, and there was no water allowed.
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Post by fantom on Jul 12, 2014 21:16:48 GMT -6
We had to walk 15 miles uphill both ways to get to practice, and there was no water allowed. You're missing the point. Compared to what kids today do we had it easy.
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Post by rsmith627 on Jul 12, 2014 21:25:24 GMT -6
We had to walk 15 miles uphill both ways to get to practice, and there was no water allowed. You're missing the point. Compared to what kids today do we had it easy. Absolutely agree with you, was just being smart. I graduated high school in 2004 and even we had it easy compared to what they're doing now, and we were a very competitive program. Over the summer we would lift 3 days a week and that was really it. Maybe the occasional 7 on 7, not really sure because I was a lineman and didn't have to be there. Now, we lift 4 days a week as well as condition, and do offensive and defensive install. It's just too much.
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Post by mahonz on Jul 12, 2014 21:36:45 GMT -6
Sending this one out to the more experienced coaches on here. There has been a lot of chatter about how much we do now, and how things are changing. My HS playing days were the mid 90s, my coaching days the mid 00s to now; other than having hudl to watch films at home now I don't see much difference (in general) between what we ask kids to do. So I am wondering what were kids asked to do in the 70s and 80s in regards to offseason wts, running, practice, and passing tournaments? Was there a sudden jump somewhere, a gradual growth, or was it fairly similar to what you do now anyways? In the offseason my first year of HS football in '67 the workout consisted of giving each of us a pamphlet from the President's Council on Youth Fitness and telling us when practice started in August. The pamphlet consisted of exercises, along with pictures illustrating them, and advice to drink a lot of ice tea (it was sponsored by Lipton). After my soph year we jointured into a bigger school and had a real offseason program. In the winter and spring we did some lifting and agility drills with some running. In the summer we'd lift three times a week, pretty much on our own in the weight room, and maybe did some position drills. A couple of nights a week we ran plays for about an hour. It was pretty rudimentary stuff but it was miles ahead of most other programs in our area. 7-on-7's? Haha. Good one. Im 5 years behind you. In the off season I partied and chased skirts because we had nothing mandatory as far as football from Feb 1 to Aug 1. I remember doing a bunch of conditioning in January for some odd reason then once baseball, track and wresting started we completely shut down outside of optional weight training. We were a successful program. My HFBC also coached T&F. I was a shot put'r...and a poor one. Pretty good receiver though. We passed...a lot. It was rather contrairian back then. We would have probably enjoyed 7 on 7's.
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Post by freezeoption on Jul 12, 2014 22:03:11 GMT -6
back at my school in the 80s our summer weights consisted of the school letting the weights and the weight racks go to a persons garage, we had 3 racks, so 3 different families, these families left their garage doors open, we would go in and lift whenever we wanted, did how much we wanted and left, that was our off season, and we were a pretty good program, everyone played 2, 3 or four sports,
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Post by rsmith627 on Jul 12, 2014 22:22:50 GMT -6
back at my school in the 80s our summer weights consisted of the school letting the weights and the weight racks go to a persons garage, we had 3 racks, so 3 different families, these families left their garage doors open, we would go in and lift whenever we wanted, did how much we wanted and left, that was our off season, and we were a pretty good program, everyone played 2, 3 or four sports, LOL...Could you imagine the liability in some of this stuff these days?
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Post by ultimatescrimmage on Jul 12, 2014 22:52:38 GMT -6
When I started High School ball in a small town in 64, most kids played 2-3 sports. In the summer most of the guys worked on the small dairy farms supplying the manual labor and it was manual, I worked fulltime in my fathers body shop, we mowed lawn with a non motorized push mower. So physically we developed through a different type of resistance. I bought my own weight set and was the only kid that lifted on the team. 7 on 7? How many times do you need to throw the same 3 passes against either cover 1 or 3? With the pass pro rules for linemen and that you could head slap on D, passing was risky at best.
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Post by larrymoe on Jul 13, 2014 8:18:52 GMT -6
Graduated in 94. I think we had lifting 2-3 days a week. I don't really remember how many, although I'm sure I went to all of them. The program was somewhat structured, but not real specific on what it was trying to accomplish. 7on7 wise they played in a league at a local college every Tues or Wed night. In that regard they did a lot more than we do. We only play 2 7on7s all summer. We had three days of camp in June and a week in July.
Honestly, while typing this out I realized that other than our Monday field work practices, we do just about the same thing I did when I was in HS.
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Post by fugulookinat on Jul 13, 2014 8:44:48 GMT -6
I played back in the 80's. We actually played on grass fields if you can believe it! No turf! If the weather was bad we went into our "Indoor Facility" which was and old gym from where the high school burned down in the 50's. Had to flush the birds out first though. I guess the main differences these days are equipment and video. We watched video on VCR's (that's a video cassette recorder for you young guys), and the equipment looked like something you might get from a Sears catalog( a catalog is a magazine with all of the products a store sold).
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Post by bluboy on Jul 13, 2014 8:45:59 GMT -6
Class of '68. 2.5 hour double sessions, no water, heavy practice shirts, 20 minute of nothing but push-ups, sit-up, neck bridges, etc. no 7on7 We did lift weights 3 days a week in the school basement. We ran the full house T. The coach at the top of the stands used an old walkie-talkie.
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Post by blb on Jul 13, 2014 8:48:06 GMT -6
I played HS Football from 1969-71.
Back then there were very few HS in our state that had any kind of structured Off-Season programs.
Weight training, which was just becoming popular, was largely done in Intramurals or as part of PE curriculum if at all.
This was at outset of rise of teachers' unions, and pay was so low most coaches worked more than one sport and Summers (painting houses, drivers' ed, etc.) to support their families. So they weren't available to run things.
Plus out-of-season activities were basically outlawed by state association.
So kids played Football in Fall, Basketball or Wrestled in Winter, Baseball or ran Track in Spring.
During Summer there of course was American Legion, Connie Mack, etc. Baseball and in cities primarily AAU and rec league Basketball.
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Post by blb on Jul 13, 2014 9:04:17 GMT -6
30 years ago (mid-'80s) most schools had started doing something in Summer as far as strength training and-or conditioning.
We started workouts three weeks prior to start of practice, three days a week.
The "Three-Man" rule was finally expanded so that 7-on-7s became legal.
In 1982 four of us who all ran Veer started our own camp because our kids were going to ones at colleges (U-M primarily) where 1) they weren't running our offense, 2) were spending half the day running and lifting weights, and 3) some were missing practice time at our schools due to injuries incurred at camp because they were bumping into each other without pads (even though they weren't supposed to).
Usually ran the camp in mid- to late July.
Even though we had gotten approval from state association, a few years later the executive director cited our camp as an example of breaking Off-Season regulations.
So one year we limited camp to seven players from each school, and one year shut it down altogether until we got it resolved in our favor.
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Post by fantom on Jul 13, 2014 9:25:30 GMT -6
Class of '68. 2.5 hour double sessions, no water, heavy practice shirts, 20 minute of nothing but push-ups, sit-up, neck bridges, etc. no 7on7 We did lift weights 3 days a week in the school basement. We ran the full house T. The coach at the top of the stands used an old walkie-talkie. You had a coach in the stands? Man, you went to a football factory! My first two years I went to a very small school whose "campus" consisted of a small lawn in front of the building. There was no gym. After dressing we walked four blocks to the "practice field"- the baseball field with no water or shade and a little grass in the outfield. The two coaches drove there in an old Army surplus car (still painted Army green) carrying the blocking dummies (no water). After practice the freshmen carried the seniors' gear back to the school and we'd stop at one of the players' house to get a drink out of the garden hose. We played our games at a neighboring town's stadium, one of the schools that we joined before my junior year. We might have had it better than the basketball, though (the only sports that we had were football, basketball, baseball and golf). They practiced and played at an armory five miles away. Things got better after the jointure but i still didn't get to practice on grass until I got to college (Although the freshman team there did duplicate the experience of walking across campus from the gym to the practice field.
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Post by mountainman on Jul 13, 2014 13:05:30 GMT -6
I graduated in 1988. Until my senior year, the off-season consisted of "lifting" three days per week. "Lifting" consisted of going into the weight room, which was often supervised by someone from the city parks and rec, not a coach, and bench pressing a little. Never went to football camp. Football would start with two-a-days on the first day of permissible practice.
My senior year we got a new coach. Coach brought in the Nebraska Computerized workout. We used to get a dot-matrix print out each week for a workout. I believe we lifted 4 days a week and then would go to the field and run a few sprints. No football work to speak of. It is also the first year we went to "camp". A couple of weeks before the season, we took the whole team to Ft. Huachuca in Sierra Vista. We staying in WWII era barracks, ate in the commissary, and had two a day practices there. At the time it was more than anyone else in our area did for a very long time.
We went from being a team that won about 2 games per year to playing in the state championship game a couple of seasons later when my brother was a senior. I don't know if the off season stuff was the difference or if the actual during season coaching was better (which it definitely was).
This was about 5% of what we do now. I am the DC at my alma mater now. We are perennially one of the top teams in the state in our division. Our kids probably do more in 1 week in the off-season than we did in 4 years of off-seasons.
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Post by rpetrie on Jul 13, 2014 16:57:47 GMT -6
Played HS ball from 83-86. Offseason was much easier...we lifted 3x per week unless you were playing another sport. No summer stuff other than wt room. Was told we had a 2 mile run test to pass...that was it. Most played at least 2 sports.
Practices were much harder IMO. Longer, more live hitting, conditioning drills were merciless & less acceptance of injury as an excuse for anything.
Double sessions were... Session #1: 9:00-12:00 Session #2: 2:00-5:00
If you were a specialist you were back on the field at 1:30...
Not sure how we survived the southern heat.
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Post by rsmith627 on Jul 13, 2014 17:12:33 GMT -6
Played HS ball from 83-86. Offseason was much easier...we lifted 3x per week unless you were playing another sport. No summer stuff other than wt room. Was told we had a 2 mile run test to pass...that was it. Most played at least 2 sports. Practices were much harder IMO. Longer, more live hitting, conditioning drills were merciless & less acceptance of injury as an excuse for anything. Double sessions were... Session #1: 9:00-12:00 Session #2: 2:00-5:00 If you were a specialist you were back on the field at 1:30... Not sure how we survived the southern heat. I lived and coached in NC for a couple of years. I can't even fathom having our kids out on the field at 2:00.
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Post by carookie on Jul 13, 2014 17:18:14 GMT -6
So, when did 7-on-7 come about? I played HS ball in the mid 90s and remember doing it every year.
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Post by vince148 on Jul 13, 2014 17:22:06 GMT -6
I was in school from 71-75. Our weight room was a Universal Gym. I remember getting a workout sheet that at least had bench and military press. But that wasn't until my sophomore year. We started on September 1st. The usual cals and mile runs. We had 2-a-days. And when it was hot, we got trusty old salt tablets. My frosh year, we ran I. Sophomore, we changed to wishbone. In my junior and senior year, we ran T. We ran a 5-2 monster defense throughout. Believe it or not, the freshman practice field was just a short jaunt to a park behind the school, but we had to drag the dummies out every practice. The sophomore through varsity field was across town. I walked a mile to our practice field from school and another mile home every day. And that really sucked in the rain. Practices were from about 3:30 to 6:30.
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Post by rpetrie on Jul 13, 2014 17:30:04 GMT -6
Played HS ball from 83-86. Offseason was much easier...we lifted 3x per week unless you were playing another sport. No summer stuff other than wt room. Was told we had a 2 mile run test to pass...that was it. Most played at least 2 sports. Practices were much harder IMO. Longer, more live hitting, conditioning drills were merciless & less acceptance of injury as an excuse for anything. Double sessions were... Session #1: 9:00-12:00 Session #2: 2:00-5:00 If you were a specialist you were back on the field at 1:30... Not sure how we survived the southern heat. I lived and coached in NC for a couple of years. I can't even fathom having our kids out on the field at 2:00. This was in VA...so not much different.
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Jul 13, 2014 18:25:35 GMT -6
30 years ago was ONLY 1984, that wasn't very long ago. I was already on my 2nd school. Things were pretty much just like rptrie said. Nothing during the summer, most everybody had extra jobs and the kids too.
Our weight lifting program went from the time right after football season and through Spring practice. So 6 months, not all year. No lifting during the season, that's a new thing. I knew nobody that lifted during the season.
They used to say that lifting weights stretched your muscles, ligaments and tendons and would cause you to pull a muscle or get injured. No lie, that was what I was told in the early 80's, so, we didn't lift.
Where things have changed is the availability of information. Remember that until this here "interwebs" thing, we didn't have much information. There were very few clinics and not many coaches would or could go. Clinics didn't take off until the late 1980's. If you went to a Glazier clinic you were considered a hardcore coaching fanatic. No lie, I actually impressed folks back-in-the-day by going to a Glazier clinic.
Most coaches might pop over to a university if they live near one.
If you wanted to learn something new, you pretty much had to join that staff to get the information. There were very few books and in today's dollars they were pretty expensive for the time. So, you have to pick carefully what you bought, you just didn't have the money for that.
We pretty much invented stuff as we went. Even information on the Winged-T was hard to come by. You ran your stuff that YOU ran, or stuff the head coach ran in college. I look back at the misinformation that we worked off of in those days, and just shake my head.
1984 was about the time that "somebody" decided that potassium was what football players needed for cramps and forced everybody to eat bananas. It didn't work, we saw that personally, but coaches still use this one. Gatorade was just starting out.
Nobody had much of anything back then. As a JV coach, I was lucky to get 2 footballs for the whole season and matching helmets.
Also, VCR's were very rare 30 years ago too. I bought a betacam back in '83 and totally amazed people. While everybody else had to cross their fingers hoping to get their very expensive game film back by Monday afternoon, I had film that night. Made me VERY popular.
But information has really changed things. Clinics have changed things, and lastly message boards like this have REALLY changed the game. If you want to know how to do something, just ask here and BOOM! you got it.
Of course I have tons of stories from the old day, but I'll spare y'all that one.
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Post by s73 on Jul 13, 2014 19:03:03 GMT -6
I graduated in the 80's. We lifted 3 x a week. Our coaches gave us some computer program and kicked their feet up and read the paper. NO TYPE of teaching how to lift. We all quarter squatted and probably did many other lifts w/ almost no range of motion. We could bench though No Olympic lifting of any kind. Then the 1st day of the season we did some old school fitness testing and our scores indicated how much "extra conditioning" we had to do during 2 a days. No football drills at all what so ever until season started. Seemed a bit more like "high school" back then.
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Post by rsmith627 on Jul 13, 2014 19:11:59 GMT -6
30 years ago was ONLY 1984, that wasn't very long ago. I was already on my 2nd school. Things were pretty much just like rptrie said. Nothing during the summer, most everybody had extra jobs and the kids too. Our weight lifting program went from the time right after football season and through Spring practice. So 6 months, not all year. No lifting during the season, that's a new thing. I knew nobody that lifted during the season. They used to say that lifting weights stretched your muscles, ligaments and tendons and would cause you to pull a muscle or get injured. No lie, that was what I was told in the early 80's, so, we didn't lift. Where things have changed is the availability of information. Remember that until this here "interwebs" thing, we didn't have much information. There were very few clinics and not many coaches would or could go. Clinics didn't take off until the late 1980's. If you went to a Glazier clinic you were considered a hardcore coaching fanatic. No lie, I actually impressed folks back-in-the-day by going to a Glazier clinic. Most coaches might pop over to a university if they live near one. If you wanted to learn something new, you pretty much had to join that staff to get the information. There were very few books and in today's dollars they were pretty expensive for the time. So, you have to pick carefully what you bought, you just didn't have the money for that. We pretty much invented stuff as we went. Even information on the Winged-T was hard to come by. You ran your stuff that YOU ran, or stuff the head coach ran in college. I look back at the misinformation that we worked off of in those days, and just shake my head. 1984 was about the time that "somebody" decided that potassium was what football players needed for cramps and forced everybody to eat bananas. It didn't work, we saw that personally, but coaches still use this one. Gatorade was just starting out. Nobody had much of anything back then. As a JV coach, I was lucky to get 2 footballs for the whole season and matching helmets. Also, VCR's were very rare 30 years ago too. I bought a betacam back in '83 and totally amazed people. While everybody else had to cross their fingers hoping to get their very expensive game film back by Monday afternoon, I had film that night. Made me VERY popular. But information has really changed things. Clinics have changed things, and lastly message boards like this have REALLY changed the game. If you want to know how to do something, just ask here and BOOM! you got it. Of course I have tons of stories from the old day, but I'll spare y'all that one. LOL Betacam! I'm a young buck. We were on the back end of VHS when I graduated heading into the DVD age, which we used when I coached freshman 6 years ago. How did we get by without Hudl?
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Post by freezeoption on Jul 13, 2014 19:37:19 GMT -6
I remember putting the vcr in a backpack. you had one kid hauling the vcr in the backpack with a coaxial cable attached to the vcr and the other end hooked to the camcorder, the camcorder just was the camera, the actual recording was on the vcr
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Post by hsrose on Jul 13, 2014 19:39:52 GMT -6
Graduated HS in 1976, played ("on the team...") for 2 years in college. So the following is just some random recollections of what things were like - player perspective.
Canvas covered blocking bags
Sleds were made by the local ranchers and were gawd-awful heavy
The chute was basically a floor made out of 4" steel pipe with 2x12's across it. You rose up, you bounced back down.
Fabric practice jerseys
Weights? Our squat machine was made from 4" steel pipe that a local rancher made from some scrap. He was nice enough to attach some grease nipples so we could grease it a bit. We would attach disc plates from the discing machine he used on the ranch. These were 24" diameter, 1/4" thick steel plates that were concave. Could take a toe off regardless of what you were wearing. The weight room was 1 5-station something and 1 olympic bar. This was in the old locker/shower room so there were 8" concrete partitions in the outlines of the lockers and showers. No real program in the off-season, there was a coach there but there were no expectations that players would be there, we pretty much had jobs.
I played in 1 7-7 event, not even a competition, just a scrimmage type affair. We were totally perplexed by doing football in the summer.
Practice started with 2-a-days and they were hard. I took a 2" swath of skin off of both hands trying to go across a monkey bar in the heat of the day. Cooked the skin right off the hand, stuck to the bar. I was #2 going across.
Salt tablets. Some water breaks but water was always 60 yards away.
3 coaches at varsity, 3 at JV, 2 at Frosh. All ran the same thing, HC was a driver that made sure everything worked the same.
Film session was Wed or so after practice. I hated that clickety-clack as it ran, and was re-ran. For the big games, section championships, we got color film. When I went back and talked with the coaches this was their biggest issue, the film. Small town, out of the way, and getting film to/from the opponents was always a big issue. Especially in playoffs because we were the northern-most team in the CA Southern Section and everyone one else was pretty much below Santa Barbara.
Practice sessions were pretty well laid out, there never was much in the way of downtime, I do remember that.
No off-season anything, in any sport. Some basketball camps (Baylor-Goodrich in Santa Barbara) but not much else. Baseball had American Legion and maybe Babe Ruth. But it was expected that good athletes were 3-sport players, there was no overlap.
Nobody had heard of soccer.
Varsity got new jerseys every 3rd year. JV got the varsity jerseys, Frosh got the JV. Frosh jerseys became practice jerseys.
There were water helmets, felt like wearing an orange peel on your head. Note: My first helmet, when I was at the small school and playing 6-man football, was a 7-1/4 suspension helmet. I broke the suspension about week 4 so I sewed it up myself using stuff we had on the ranch. The next year I go to the big school and they give me a 7-5/8 that had air pockets, I thought I was very cool. The facemasks were heavy duty steel coated with plastic that would wear off, giving us a nice sharp edge.
OL blocking was with flippers. If the hands came out we'd get holding if we were or not. Spent a lot of time clutching the fabric over the shoulder pads.
Lots and lots of head dingers and no concussion information that I remember. Rare for someone to be out for a concussion, generally viewed as a wussy injury because you couldn't see anything.
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Jul 13, 2014 20:52:19 GMT -6
Ha hsrose, that was awesome. These young bucks don't know nothing about wearing a "suspension" helmet, haha. I never wore a "water helmet" but I heard about them. You made me want to tell an old story: My 1st job, innercity jacksonville, AD was an old WWII vet (looked like a WWI vet) My 1st year of JV coaching (1980) I got in to see him and he says, "what can I help you with son." I was 22, looked younger, I said, "Coach I need a football, we only got 2 for the entire season, do you have any old ones?" No lie, he rummages around in an old metal desk and pulls out a tennis shoe. An old high top, off-white tennis shoe, throws it to me and says, "That'll do fine for defense." Well I took that shoe and practice with it on defense for years. Did everything with it but throw to the DB's. Wish I hadn't lost that thing. True story. In real life, since it was the day of the option, I really didn't need anything anymore than that old tennis shoe.
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Post by mc140 on Jul 14, 2014 1:45:58 GMT -6
Graduated 15 years ago.
We used all 25 contact days back then, but it was more lifting based. We definitely do more football based stuff in summer now.
During the season we spent a lot more time in practice back then. There are no doubles now as teachers go back to work before kids start practice and kids start up a couple days into the season. We had six days of triples and four days of doubles. Only our Senior class has even seen a double.
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Post by coach2013 on Jul 14, 2014 2:29:19 GMT -6
We had two full weeks of three a day practices, so in that respect, kids have it easy now. Our football camp was a three hour morning practice, a lunch break, nap, then film and special teams, then a dip in the pool, then another 3 hour practice. 7am-7pm, full pads and as much contact and conditioning as the coach wanted to do, again, much tougher and more demanding than what we can do with kids now.
The offseason? I am sure every program had something different. We had a wrestling room with dip bar and chin station and jump ropes. We had circuits there. Then we went to the housekeeping closet to bench, squat and upright row. one station for each and pyramid our sets from 12-10-8-6-4-2 no other guidelines. From there youd report to the universal machines and do leg extensions and leg curls and lat pulls and reverse curls.
You ran on your own but you had to pass a 12 minute 1.75 mile test. I don't think the program was year round or anything and no incentives other than competing for playing time. Big school. You were at the bottom of the depth chart if you missed summer workouts.
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