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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 28872" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I can tell you why the rules changed from my own experience. </p><p></p><p>When I played ball, the instruction for OLs on my high school team was simple: put your facemask on the numbers of the player you are blocking. Or, as it was generically called, you "speared" the D player. Leading with your head and focusing on the numbers made the whole process simple. You either speared the other side or you cut blocked them. When I got to college (Div 3), my coaches told me to use a forearm shiver, as is mentioned above. I ignored them and soon got a rep as the best blocker in my frosh class. Then I hurt my knee again and my career was over. (I paid for that last summer with a knee replacement.)</p><p></p><p>Soooooo … I wore a horse collar and led with my head, like a lot of other players. Result = lots of concussions and neck injuries, often severe ones. The rule changes meant that passing became easier, as mentioned above as well, but that was only part of the equation. There was a real concern, that continues to this day, about the number of head and neck injuries in football. I often fulminate about this; OLs today get away with murder when it comes to holding. Still, there <em>was</em> a reason for the switch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 28872, member: 265"] I can tell you why the rules changed from my own experience. When I played ball, the instruction for OLs on my high school team was simple: put your facemask on the numbers of the player you are blocking. Or, as it was generically called, you "speared" the D player. Leading with your head and focusing on the numbers made the whole process simple. You either speared the other side or you cut blocked them. When I got to college (Div 3), my coaches told me to use a forearm shiver, as is mentioned above. I ignored them and soon got a rep as the best blocker in my frosh class. Then I hurt my knee again and my career was over. (I paid for that last summer with a knee replacement.) Soooooo … I wore a horse collar and led with my head, like a lot of other players. Result = lots of concussions and neck injuries, often severe ones. The rule changes meant that passing became easier, as mentioned above as well, but that was only part of the equation. There was a real concern, that continues to this day, about the number of head and neck injuries in football. I often fulminate about this; OLs today get away with murder when it comes to holding. Still, there [I]was[/I] a reason for the switch. [/QUOTE]
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