What is the Beast Offense? The Beast Offense is the old Yale Single Wing from the early 1900s. I have been running my version of the Beast Offense, Loud Rowdy Monkey since 1994. My version of the Beast Offense for youth football is 3 main Beast formations; Tight aka Beast, Wide or Worm, & Spread or Jumbo. Another of my original Beast Offense formations that I started running in 1994 is Monkey for middle. The Beast Offense has become very popular since I wrote the Power Wing Beast Offense Playbook back in 2017. Now Middle Schools, High Schools and Colleges are running their own Beast Offense variations. Pretty cool stuff. The Beast Offense is loved, hated, copied and very effective. Beware of the Beast. And just as an fyi, I am the OG Coach Beast 1994.
The Beast Offensive formation can be run balanced or unbalanced. It can be run in Shotgun and Under Center. You can Spread the 3 Blocking backs out and really change up the formation from a Power Formation to a Sweep Option formation into a true Quads Spread formation. It is more versatile than the haters can imagine.
Why does the Beast Offense / Yale Single Wing work? The formation puts more people at the point of attack than any other offense. And it is so simple with less moving parts. Just hit the hole and go. The Blocking Backs are already set up at the area they need to block. And the OLine is usually just blocking down in a SAB or JAW block. Very easy to install and run successfully.
History of the Beast Offense
According to my Beast Offense research, in 1902 Walter Camp was developing a new offensive formation and play series for Yale’s upcoming Princeton game. The formation was called a Tackle-Back formation. Below is the pre-cursor to the Yale Singe Wing. As football rules evolved the the formation evolved into the more traditional Yale Single Wing / Beast tight formation variations.
I originally found the Beast Offense / Formation on Playmaker Football software back in 1994. I was looking for an easy Offensive formation to introduce it to my PSA Hurricane team. The crazy Single Wing formation was beating every defense I lined up in the software simulator, so we installed the Crazy Loud Monkey Single Wing and almost took a rookie youth football team into the PSA Super Bowl game. We actually won Coaching Staff of the Year that season.
Around 2008 give or take a year, I am writing my youth football blog and researching youth football info at CoachParker.org, and I read about my crazy Loud Rowdy Monkey formation on Hugh Wyatt’s and Jack Gregory’s social media / forum or website posts. They called the formation The Beast. That is the first time, I saw anyone else writing or talking or running the Beast, except for a few opponents in the Denver area that started copying my Crazy Loud, Rowdy, Monkey formation in 2006 and 2007.
Then in 2011, I bought the Tom Flores book, Coaching Football and he had a diagram of the Beast and called the formation, Yale Single Wing. Now, another name for this crazy unknown but unstoppable youth football formation and offense. From this I started searching for info on Yale football.
As I kept wiring my Coaching Youth Football Tips blog, I learned more about others running the Beast. I joined DumCoach forum back around 2015, and then learned that Steve Calande, a High School coach, actually coined the name The Beast from his Beast Offense Playbook back around 2002. Around 2018 on Twitter, I learned from Bruce Eien another HS Coach who was running a version of the Beast and he said that Coach Calande published article on the Beast around 2002 or 2004 and sold a handwritten playbook too. Since I was not a professional Coach or HS coach, I never saw these materials. But the interesting thing about the 3 of us was that we were all on Delphi Single Wing forums back in the day around 1994. Crazy small world to all run and write about some version of the Beast Yale Single Wing.
On July 14, 2017, I published the Power Wing Beast Offense Youth Football Playbook. Which expanded on my blog posts from 2008. I started posting more Beast articles, videos and game videos of the Beast Offense in action.
In 2018 I bought the book The Yale Football Story and found the beginnings of the Yale Single Wing formation as I mentioned above.
I continue to write about and coach the Beast Offense.
Beast Offense Formations
These are my 3 main variations of the Beast Offense in the Power Wing Beast Offense Playbook. I have been running these 3 Beast formations along with Monkey or Middle since 1994. Middle or “Monkey” is similar to the Philadelphia Eagles Tush Push formation or a very tight under center diamond/inverted wishbone formation.
So when you see someone running all of these Beast variations as one you know where they came from; Coach Parker’s Power Wing Beast Offense or off my website. Most folks will only run the Beast Tight more traditional Yale Sing Wing / The Beast. These Beast formations were not very popular until my playbook was published in 2017.
Beast Offense Run Plays
Below are some of the best Beast Offense run plays from my Power Wing Beast Offense playbook. Of course, one of the best plays in youth football is the Beast Tank power play, and then the complementary Wedge Play. These two plays alone can beat most teams. The TE counter is also very deadly.
The Worm sweep is also a great play to add into your Beast Offense mix. Great play when the Defense is submarining your offensive tackles.
Here is the Beast Monkey Formation play Eagle Wedge.
Beast Offense Pass Plays
Above in the top Beast plays diagram is the Beast Popeye pass. This is a great Beast play to combine with the Tank and Wedge plays as a very good package for any team along with the Texas Counter or the TE Counter.
Below is the Worm Boomerang pass play which is a TE drag off a Reverse Sweep option. Great 2 point play.
The Beast Spread or Jumbo play below which I call Arby Fries is one of my favorite Beast pass plays of all time. We have scored many TDs with this play.
If you would like to contact me about more Beast or Yale Single Wing info, please use my contact page. I love talking about the youth football.
