Return the kickoff for position. (kickoff return)

Know the number of the man you are blocking while sprinting to your aiming point

Everyone agrees that the kickoff return is one of the most exciting plays in football. But it is more than just exciting. It can also set the tone for the game or effect a sudden change in its momentum. No other play engenders such anticipation and anxiety.

At Salisbury State, we put our special team in the best position to score on every kickoff, though we realize it is not going to happen that often.

What we can accomplish realistically is to put the ball in good field position for our offense, enabling them to go 35 to 40 yards rather than 65 for the score.

Over the last three years, our return team has scored only one touchdown, yet it has set single-game records for average yards per return and put one of our return men in the national rankings.

Every time he dropped out of the top ten it was mainly because the opposing kickers squibbed the ball or kicked it to our short man - which, of course, did not prevent us from achieving our goal: securing good field position for our offense.

Our basic scheme is predicated on man blocking with wing T principles; that is, angle blocking. We use only two kinds of returns - middle and sideline (right or left). Since we make adjustments to suit our return and confuse the opponents' scouting, we may change our players' responsibilities from game to game, though the scheme will remain the same.