I first heard about Bill Yeoman when my older brother came home one night and passed out on his bed. I found a large rolled up white banner on the floor so I unrolled it and it read in large red letters "Suck It Pigs!". The next day my brother told me how Bill Yeoman's veer offense ran roughshod over the Arkansas Razorbacks.
@@jmg999 NOPE. The Triple Option was an offshoot of the Veer that Yoeman created in 1964.. Emory Bellard was Offensive coach at Texas. Texas introduced the Triple Option in 1968 by taking the Veer Wide out and moved the Wide out to the backfield.
@@charlesf4428 Bellard introduced it to the NCAA. He didn't invent the offense. Charles "Spud" Cason invented it in the 1950s at a middle school in the Dallas/Forth Worth area.
@@gooser__43 I've read it in a few places, and I heard it once in an interview. Chris B. Brown wrote about it in his first book, as did Barry Switzer in his autobiography. I've also read it online in a few different places, and I heard Switzer give credit to Cason in an interview once. Originally, however, Darrell Royal was the first that I'm aware to have credited him. After Texas won the 1969 National Championship, Sports Illustrated wrote a small blurb in a 1970 edition of the magazine, where Royal paid him his due. This is the full text of the write-up: "Everybody knows about the Wishbone-T formation of Texas' Darrell Royal, don't they? Sure. That's the offense Royal introduced in 1968 in which the fullback lines up one step closer to the trench than the other two deep backs. It's also the offense that a lot of other collegiate teams might be using this season-the Wishbone coupled with the Triple Option, the attack that won the national championship for Texas last year. Now we hear that Royal didn't invent the formation, not that he ever claimed he did. The coach who does claim he did is Charles (Spud) Cason of Monnig Junior High in Fort Worth, who has a play-book to prove it-The Original High School Wishbone. It seems Cason's teams at Monnig Junior High have been using the Wishbone for 18 years and doing very well with it, too. They have not been defeated in their last 42 games, and they have had 10 undefeated seasons in the past 16. "I'd be foolish to suggest that Darrell got the idea from me," says Cason, "I think it's just interesting that one of the greats came up with something we'd been doing for a long time." vault.si.com/vault/1970/09/28/scorecard I'm not as familiar w/ the origins of the veer, but assuming that Bill Yeoman actually did invent it, that would've been 1965, roughly 13 years after Cason began using the wishbone, or the Monnig-T, as it was called back then.
I first heard about Bill Yeoman when my older brother came home one night and passed out on his bed. I found a large rolled up white banner on the floor so I unrolled it and it read in large red letters "Suck It Pigs!". The next day my brother told me how Bill Yeoman's veer offense ran roughshod over the Arkansas Razorbacks.
One of coach Yeoman's players...Art Briles. TCU should explore.
god bless Coach Yeoman, the inventor of the triple option.
Bill Yeoman did not invent the triple option. He designed the veer offense, which was a take on the pre-existing triple option.
Bill did not invent the triple option but he knew how to defend against it.
@@jmg999 NOPE. The Triple Option was an offshoot of the Veer that Yoeman created in 1964.. Emory Bellard was Offensive coach at Texas. Texas introduced the Triple Option in 1968 by taking the Veer Wide out and moved the Wide out to the backfield.
@@charlesf4428 Bellard introduced it to the NCAA. He didn't invent the offense. Charles "Spud" Cason invented it in the 1950s at a middle school in the Dallas/Forth Worth area.
@@gooser__43 I've read it in a few places, and I heard it once in an interview. Chris B. Brown wrote about it in his first book, as did Barry Switzer in his autobiography. I've also read it online in a few different places, and I heard Switzer give credit to Cason in an interview once.
Originally, however, Darrell Royal was the first that I'm aware to have credited him. After Texas won the 1969 National Championship, Sports Illustrated wrote a small blurb in a 1970 edition of the magazine, where Royal paid him his due. This is the full text of the write-up:
"Everybody knows about the Wishbone-T formation of Texas' Darrell Royal, don't they? Sure. That's the offense Royal introduced in 1968 in which the fullback lines up one step closer to the trench than the other two deep backs. It's also the offense that a lot of other collegiate teams might be using this season-the Wishbone coupled with the Triple Option, the attack that won the national championship for Texas last year. Now we hear that Royal didn't invent the formation, not that he ever claimed he did. The coach who does claim he did is Charles (Spud) Cason of Monnig Junior High in Fort Worth, who has a play-book to prove it-The Original High School Wishbone. It seems Cason's teams at Monnig Junior High have been using the Wishbone for 18 years and doing very well with it, too. They have not been defeated in their last 42 games, and they have had 10 undefeated seasons in the past 16.
"I'd be foolish to suggest that Darrell got the idea from me," says Cason, "I think it's just interesting that one of the greats came up with something we'd been doing for a long time."
vault.si.com/vault/1970/09/28/scorecard
I'm not as familiar w/ the origins of the veer, but assuming that Bill Yeoman actually did invent it, that would've been 1965, roughly 13 years after Cason began using the wishbone, or the Monnig-T, as it was called back then.
Elmo Wright was my first football hero!
Go COOGS!!!!!
Sounds like Willie Fritz
Coach Yeoman not only integrated the football team a decade before the SEC did, he also had Black coaches on his staff way back when. 🫡