2. The blocker will hit the outside leg of the defensive man with the part of his shoulder pad that covers the scapula of his inside shoulder.
Follow Through:
1. After contact has been made with the back of shoulder, the blocker will roll to his inside and give a corkscrew effect.
2. Stay as high as possible (around the knees) and make two or three complete rolls in the corkscrew fashion, trying to knock the legs out from under the defensive man.
3. At all times the blocker must keep his head pointing downfield or no less than a 60 degree angle.
NUMBERING THE DEFENSIVE ALIGNMENTS
Figure 102a
In making our blocking rules or assignments for all of the players versus all different defensive alignments, there are several factors to take into consideration. The rules must be simple, and secondly, they must be brief. We have used several different kinds of rules, such as, “Inside gap, over, linebacker,” and others. This was a good method, but it amounted to quite a bit of memory work for the players because the majority of the blocks were all different and the players were required to learn a number of different sequences. Trying to adhere to the theory, “the simpler, the better,” we started numbering the defensive men as illustrated in [Figure 102a] versus the 5-4 defensive alignment; [102b] versus the wide tackle 6; [102c] versus the gap 8 defense; and [Figure 102d] versus the Eagle defense.
