Tom Bass in his book Youth Football Skills & Drills: A New Coach’s Guide says one youth football coach to 6 pee wee football players an ideal ratio of coaches. I must agree with Coach Bass. To really teach the youth football player you need multiple drill stations to keep the young little league football players interested. […]
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Another great addition to your youth football coaching library is Frank Beamers Complete Guide to Special Teams (American Football Coaches Ass). This is a great book on special teams. My copy is worn, highlighted and notes in different colors along the page edges. I spend a good amount of time on Special Teams in practice, because
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One of the many defensive books in my youth football coaching library is Complete Guide to Installing the 44 Split Defense (Art & Science of Coaching) I am not big on the 44 defense but this book has some very good general defensive coaching information, coverage explanations, communication, linebacker play and a pretty good chapter on the
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Yesterday, I received my copy of Vince Lombardi on Football and read the first 25 pages this morning. Absolutely amazing. Coach Lombardi goes into great detail about the Green Bay Packer Sweep by position. I can hear him speaking to me through the pages. Can’t wait to read more. Here’s a video so you can
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One of my top books I use to help organize my youth football practices is the Complete Book of Drills for Winning Football by Micheal D. Koehler. It has over 350 football drills in offense, defense and special teams; agility, quarterback, running back, receiver, offensive lineman, d-lineman, linebacker, tackling, defensive backs, and team drills. It has great
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I am a fan of the Single Wing Offense. I like to run the Single Wing and Beast formations on short yardage situations in a multi formation offensive scheme. A couple of years ago, Coach Cisar ask me to review his book and a few of his videos on my blog at CoachParker.org. Coach Cisar’s
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Here’s another book that I bought back in the 1990’s when I first started coaching youth football for Plano Sports Authority just North of Dallas Texas. My copy of this book is worn out. A ton of good pics and Bass is a great author. You can probably find a good used copy for a
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Fritz Shurmur’s description of how to play the outside linebacker or defensive end whichever you call it, maybe the best I have read yet. I just got his book today The Eagle Five-Linebacker Defense, and was thumbing through it and came across his outside linebacker description. Unbelievable! I can’t wait to read more, but need
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I bought the Football Coach’s Survival Guide back in 1992 when I first starting coaching. You can pick up a used copy pretty cheap. Its not the greatest book but it does have some good information in it for football coaches. It a guide for High School coaches and has good practical applications for youth
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If you are a youth football coach or thinking about coaching a team, you must purchase Coach John T Reeds Coaching Youth Football book. This is a must have book for your youth football coaching library. Coach Reed is a little gruff and gritty, but his common sense no-nonsense approach is great. I personally loved
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