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High School Football Formation - Offense of the Future, or Just Unfair?

October 22nd, 2008 at 7:40 a.m.

By placing one of the quarterbacks at least seven yards behind the line of scrimmage, and no one under center to receive the snap, the A-11 qualifies as a scrimmage kick formation — the alignments used for punts and extra points. Thus interior linemen are granted an exception from having to wear jersey numbers 50 through 79. (The exception was intended to allow a team’s deep snapper not to have to switch to a lineman’s jersey if he was a back or an end.) Any player wearing jersey numbers 1 through 49 and 80 through 99 is potentially eligible to receive a pass.” It looks crazy, and I want to see it in action, but I think I might be a fan. The bit about it looking like basketball on grass might have won me over.

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