Solid Ground

If you liked this article, here are three others just like it: 1. Punch Time, May 1999 2. Unusual Options, Aug. 2000 3. Option for the New Millennium, Aug. 2001 In today’s world of the West Coast Offense, the shotgun, and all the one-back and no-back offenses, people ask, “Why does Air Force still run the option?” Air Force has been running the option game since Ken Hatfield brought Fisher DeBerry to the Academy in 1980 to install the system. It has been tweaked, refined and tinkered with over the last 22 years, but the basic fundamentals of the option game are still the same as they were in 1968 when Darrell Royal and Emory Bellard devised the “wishbone” at the University of Texas. It has survived the test of time and today still stands as the most prolific rushing offense in the history of college football. The success Coach DeBerry has had at the Academy – 17 winning