Today's Tidbit... Minnesota's Spinner and Their Ineffective Passing Game

We're taking a spin today, back to the days of the Single Wing and half-and-full spinners. The spinner arrived in football in 1924 when Walter Steffen, Carnegie Tech's coach, employed it with his quarterback Dwight Beede, who 20+ years later invented the penalty flag.

The spinner was a component of the backfield faking and misdirection in series plays in which each play looked like another. Minnesota coach Bernie Bierman shared his preferred half-spinner techniques in his Want To Be A Football Ch...