Jack Neumeier
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Jack "Cactus Jack" Neumeier (1919 – 2004) was an American high school football coach from 1946 to 1978.[1] He invented American football's modern spread offense, also known as the one-back spread offense, and originated the phrase "basketball on grass" to describe this offense.
Career
Neumeier was inventor of American football's
San Jose State, learned about the spread offense directly from Neumeier. Erickson, Joe Tiller
and other coaches subsequently coached national championship teams and Heisman Trophy winners using Neumeier's offense, which is now utilized in some form by almost every football team at every level of play, NFL, college, high school and youth football. He continued to mentor other coaches utilizing variations of his spread offense until Neumeier's death in 2004.
References
- ^ "Neumeier's Scheme Not a Passing Fancy". Los Angeles Times. 1 January 1998.
2. One More Season: The Birth of Football's Spread Offense by Lorin Fife (c) 2020, provides historical details about Jack Neumeier's life and career, focusing on the history of his invention of the spread offense in 1970 while coaching at Granada Hills High School in Los Angeles, California.
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