Changing the Tempo of the Game

On behalf of the Hargrave Military Academy postgraduate coaching staff, we would like to thank American Football Monthly for printing our clinic article on changing the tempo of the game. Hargrave Military Academy is one of the premier one-year prep schools in the country where we are faced with teaching our offense to a whole new group of athletes on a yearly basis. We quickly found out that our athletes become bored with the same stale offensive schemes and felt that we would be able to create an offense that the kids could get excited about. We found that once we implemented some new wrinkles into the game, our players had a whole new love and excitement towards the game. We have included our version of the Polecat offense into our playbook. Polecat The Polecat formation is one which can be used by any offense and in any situation. This formation is especially successful in an