Darrell Royal called his new 1968 offense a "wishbone" offense after it was first named the "pulleybone" offense by a reporter
It was Emory Bellard, an assistant of Darrell Royal who created the "Wishbone" and a sportswriter named Mickey Herskowitz gave it the name in 1968.
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The wishbone offense got its name because of the way it looks when diagrammed. In the wishbone offense the backfield is shaped like an inverted Y (or a "wishbone from a turkey", get it? ) : TE/WR_____LT LG C RG RT______TE/WR ______________QB ______________FB ___________RB_____RB (please forgive the lines, I didnt know how else to space the positions apart. Tab wouldn't work.)
I'm pretty sure it was Phil Jackson's mentor tex winter
The letter Y has a wishbone shape.
The Run and Shoot is the oldest form of todays spread offense. Ron Waller used the Run and Shoot offense with the World Football League (WFL) Philadelphia Bell in 1974 before Mouse Davis started coaching at Portland State in 1975.
A "Y" shaped bone in a turkey and some other animals that is played with by two people trying to pull the bone, and whoever has most of the bone after it breaks is the winner.