You volunteered to coach the football team, but are you ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Football has the answers. Longtime coach Jim Dougherty teams up with Brandon Castel to share experience and advice you can rely on from the first practice to the final game. It’s all here in the drills and the plays: evaluating players’ skills, establishing realistic goals, offering in-game coaching tips, and making the practices fun! Develop your team’s offensive and defensive skills for all positions with the Survival Guide’s collection of the game’s best youth drills. For plays that young players can actually run, flip to the Survival Guide’s offensive playbook and defensive alignments. And to get the most out of every practice, follow the ready-to-use practice plans. Turn to the series that has already guided thousands of first-time coaches in basketball, soccer, and softball to rewarding and productive seasons. With Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Football, you’re already well on your way.

Presents a cohesive strategy for teaching the basics of football using a lighthearted, humorous tone to describe a complex game.

Organized for easy use into 16 sections, including player recruitment, conditioning, & game preparation. Covers policies to combat drug & steroid use, tested scouting reports, ways to improve performance, & more.

The Guide for a Fun and Successful Football Season! Do you need some guidance before you start coaching this football season? Coaching Youth Football, 3rd edition gives you everything you need to make this season a success. It covers all of football's fundamentals and gives coaching tips for every aspect of the game including: blocking, passing, receiving, running, tackling, and special teams proper techniques for all aspects of the game the responsibilities of each position on the field offensive and defensive formations a playbook of over 30 plays to use in games how to create the desire to play hard in athletes You'll also find template practice plans you can adjust for your own use, step-by-step drills, conditioning ideas, first aid information, and an explanation of the game's rules. Plus, a glossary and skills checklists at the end of the book help you learn and teach the language and skills of football quickly and effectively.

Coaching youth sports teams can be very stressful. Some unreasonable parents and children can make a coach''s life difficult. Of coarse, some selfish coaches can damage the child''s sports experience as well. This book began as a one page list of strategies designed to help the local youth league baseball coaches enjoy a season absent of parent and player grievances It has grown into a compilation of anecdotes designed to support coaching strategies and concepts that lead to rewarding seasons for everyone. Along with a series of strategies for a happy team, this book also addresses the lessons provided by youth sports and competition, the difficulties of high expectations placed on some children with early success, how to help the less confident and less talented, how to handle difficult parents, and what it means to win.. The book is full of entertaining true stories. The final chapter, “The Last Philly”, is a true story that pulls it all together and demonstrates a magnificent payoff courtesy of teamwork, effort and encouragement.

The conclusions drawn by analyzing statistics from college and professional football often do not translate to the high school game because the games are so different. This book puts those powerful statistical techniques for maximizing a team's chance of winning into the hands of high school coaches and fans. These techniques are illustrated using the Pulaski Academy Bruins as a case study. Techniques such as Expected Point Value and Points Per Possession analysis are demonstrated with examples. The authors explore the utility of onside kicks, 4th down decision making, and two point conversion attempts. In addition, the book touches on the aspects of game theory as it relates to the opponents psychological state.

A grandson of legendary athlete Jim Thorpe, Michael Koehler is himself a great football coach. Here Koehler shares his strategies for success with tested techniques and materials. 100 drawings.