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[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=13045.msg132724#msg132724 date=1444013206]Not to nitpick, but weren't Vince Lombardi's Packers famous not for between-the-tackles running but sweep plays?

Seems like he was famous for that: http://smartfootball.com/run-game/does-a...kers-sweep

I thought I've read that he also ran power/counter but I'm not a schematic historian.
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I doubt Lombardi ran much counter...

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-n...r-running/

While Power’s origin is a bit foggy, history credits two men with inventing Counter: former Nebraska Cornhuskers head coach Tom Osborne and his offensive line coach, Milt Tenopir. In the 1970s, Osborne’s Nebraska teams — already known for their great ground attacks — used a devastating Counter Sweep play in which a wingback took the ball and ran around the end, but by the close of the decade, defenses had adjusted and were often stuffing the play.
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But while Osborne and Tenopir reimagined Counter, a third coach made it truly famous: former Washington Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs. “We stole it,” Gibbs told Sports Illustrated. “We saw some film on Nebraska, and Tom Osborne was doing some really innovative things with his line up front. We were watching it and thought, God, that’s good stuff. So we stole it.”

Lombardi had stepped down as coach of the Packers a decade earlier, in 1967.

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[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=13045.msg132724#msg132724 date=1444013206]Not to nitpick, but weren't Vince Lombardi's Packers famous not for between-the-tackles running but sweep plays?

Seems like he was famous for that: http://smartfootball.com/run-game/does-a...kers-sweep

I thought I've read that he also ran power/counter but I'm not a schematic historian.
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I doubt Lombardi ran much counter...

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-n...r-running/

While Power’s origin is a bit foggy, history credits two men with inventing Counter: former Nebraska Cornhuskers head coach Tom Osborne and his offensive line coach, Milt Tenopir. In the 1970s, Osborne’s Nebraska teams — already known for their great ground attacks — used a devastating Counter Sweep play in which a wingback took the ball and ran around the end, but by the close of the decade, defenses had adjusted and were often stuffing the play.
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But while Osborne and Tenopir reimagined Counter, a third coach made it truly famous: former Washington Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs. “We stole it,” Gibbs told Sports Illustrated. “We saw some film on Nebraska, and Tom Osborne was doing some really innovative things with his line up front. We were watching it and thought, God, that’s good stuff. So we stole it.”

Lombardi had stepped down as coach of the Packers a decade earlier, in 1967.

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