I-formation


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I-formation

Offensive formation in which the running backs line up directly behind the quarterback.
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Team Murrena was largely playing two-back, with both of them standing closer to the baseline, instead of the more conventional one up and one back position or even the trickier I-formation, where the two players stand in the middle to form the letter I.
In Game 2, Dublin City used the I-formation, and Tully handled all returns of serves.
I think in a perfect world, Urban Meyer wants to be a downhill spread team, meaning the run game looks like the I-formation; tailback's shoulders parallel to the line of scrimmage, like when they won the national championships.
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Kearney looked at home in his new role at running back in Marist's I-formation offense.
"They run out of the I-formation. They'll give you some unbalanced lines and several different formations out of the I-set.''
In the conventional I-formation, the tandem of McFadden starting and Jones following is the best one-two punch to romp in these parts since SMU's "Pony Express" of Eric Dickerson and Craig James ran wild in the early 1980s.
It's Tom Nugent, one of football's true offensive geniuses and father of the I-formation, among other things.
Instead of the T-shaped battery pack used in the EV1, the Parallel hybrid uses a GM Ovonic battery pack that consists of 44 nickel metal-hydride battery modules in an I-formation down the center of the car.
The I-formation, power run approach is similar to how Tigard piled up more than 300 yards rushing against the Irish, though Johnson wasn't putting much weight into the final yardage totals.
Type of offense: I-formation. Scored 207 points in 2013 (18.8 ppg).