Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Box Drills and Ropes
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss agility drills used from football’s beginnings, or nearly so. The video mentions an image from the early 1920s that did not turn out in the video, but you can see the picture in the Tidbit linked below.
Listen to the discussion on YouTube, and feel free to read the original Tidbit below.
Today's Tidbit... Early Agility Drills
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The 1922 version of the Kansas State Wildcats enhanced their agility by weaving through wooden boxes. Only after Joe Paupa patented his Runner Training Apparatus in 1944, did football players switch to running the ropes.
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Would love to learn (a.) how Carioca drill was named, and (b.) whether there is a regional bias involved with the Oklahoma/Mississippi/Jayhawk/Staubach naming of the wind sprint drill where player runs 10 and back, 20 and back, 40 and back, etc.