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WINNING FOOTBALL
with the "DOUBLE WING" / "GUN WING"
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Unique Offensive System
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The Double Wing / Gun-Wing we refer to on this
site is NOT the Wing-T, the Flexbone, or any
other of the traditional schemes out there, but
is a pretty rare and a completely unique
offensive system, with it's own distinctive DNA,
and built in modus operandi. LH
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* Over 35 years of Winning Football * Over
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THE DOUBLE WING & GUN-WING
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A NEW FOOTBALL SCIENCE
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WHEN WINNING IS IMPORTANT
ZZZZZZZZZZZZ(Before
the 5 star athletes show up)
An
amazing Offense, that if coached up, can
transform average athletes into competitors and
winners
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....Meanwhile,
In Alabama |
2023 Fyffe
Rips their way to yet
*another
title...Check FEATURED page...
7 out of 10 ain't bad wouldn't
ya say?!
2022 Fyffe
STATE CHAMPIONS
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Once
again the Fyffe Red Devils
finish
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undefeated season with a new
addition
for the
trophy
case
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Paul Benefield since installing
the Gun-Wing (Double Wing)
*system
in 2014, has captured
7 State
titles in
10
years with all 7*teams
finishing undefeated in league
play.
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In
a world where high
school coaches are
clambering Clinics to
get the latest trendy
college and pro offenses
and flash, to show their
big time coaching
prowess, Paul Benefield
continues to stack
trophies in the Fyffe
showcase beating them
profusely, running the
Gun-Wing version of the
Double-Wing and
continually beating up
on, many times, bigger
faster talent.
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Paul
Benefield of Fyffe (AL), and Jason Mensing,
Whiteford (MI)
Fyffe
2014, 2016, 2018, 2019,
2021, 2022, 2023
along with
Whiteford
2017 State
Champs
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Also shouts to: Tim Murphy (Clayton Valley CA),
and Scott Martin (Ohatchee AL) *
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Whiteford (MI)
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#1 OFFENSE IN
GEORGIA 2004...BET
YOU DIDN'T KNOW ?
Coach
Harrison's Nathanael Greene Double Wing Offense,
was the most productive offense in All
Classifications in the State of Georgia with over 5,000
yards in 13 games! This immediately after taking over a
2-8 team.
It's True!
It's also true it was atop the following several
years as well, averaging over 4,700 yards of offense in
each of those (12 game) seasons. As a head coach, Harrison's Double
wing offenses have averaged over 35 points per game as
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GOOD REASONS WHY RUN THE DOUBLE WING / GUN-WING OFFENSE |
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THE
DOUBLE WING,
AND
THE GUN WING
"A way to
Compete
and Win when matching up is not an option"
An amazing Offense, unlike others, it does not
rely on holding. (that's cheating ya
know?)
*In an era where coaches are teaching and
relying on holding as part of the blocking
scheme, as well as how to hide it, It's great to
know a powerful offense that is far more
effective, even with less talent, without the
dirty deeds!
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Two and a
Half hour barrage of the above DW action available on
video*discs
including
the 2004 record setting #1 offense in Georgia! See
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" Don't be afraid to be different "
Winning is not a usual thing, and winning is not
a likely thing, and winning is not even the
normal thing. To win, One must have unusual
talents and physical gifts, or One must have an
Unusual work ethic in carrying out an unusually
good Plan. If you have both, you are surely
destined to win, but that combo is very unusual
in itself. Without the unusual talent and gifts,
that leaves one with being among the many and
merely taking what you can get, or letting the
chips fall where they may....OR taking
unusual measures and excepting nothing less
than being the very best one can be. Today, the
instrument of my "Taking the unusual
measures" is the offense I have chosen, that
has proven itself time and time again to be the
unusually effective plan. This plan makes for
the rare and unusual to become a real
possibility. The Double Wing / Gun Wing
can be very effective, in a good coach's hands
in having unusually good outcomes, and having
groups over achieve .
Coach H
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THE GUN-WING
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The Double Wing, and Gun-Wing
"Defensive Coordinator's Best Friend"
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Coach's short Double Wing YouTube Videos have well over
300,000 views! Now that is a lot of Double Wing
Curiosity! But those are a small capsule of the two and
a half hours on disc, spanning 5 years, running the Pure
Double Wing. Email us about the 5 Double Wing discs, all
on the contact page of this site. |
" Winning isn't
everything, but losing gets you relocated " LH |
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A Winning Football Team Begets School Spirit & Enthusiasm
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Pretty Nice looking field
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When a team
hasn't been successful
in decades or ever, and suddenly starts
winning and winning big, School enrollment sky-rockets, A lot of interest
and support starts coming out of the woodwork to volunteer their help in many
ways, OH YES, and your football field starts to look like a Division 1 College
Field! And the stands become filled like the picture below with standing room
only around the field. Not to mention,
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It's just more fun "
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DOUBLE WING
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GUN-WING
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Pick Your Wrecking Ball
Coach Harrison on the Double Wing
and Gun-Wing:
Seeing a Double Wing / Gun-Wing offense is a pretty
rare experience for our numbers are few being the trendy spread-em out systems
are now the fevered rage. When you do, you tend to notice something a little
different about it. My coaching philosophy begins with a football truth,
which is: deficits in talent, size, and speed show up more obviously when you
are on Defense than on Offense. On Defense, any or all of your weaknesses can be
exposed and you simply can't scheme your way out of them. For instance the
opponent having several 4.4 speedsters VS your fastest man of 4.9, or the twin
6'6" receivers that can catch and run VS your 5'7" corners that are only fair at
both, or the 6'5" 280 lb. linemen that can play VS your 175 pounders that are
fair at best.. All the heart and desire in the world can only make up for just
so much! So you have to scheme to put your kids in a better position. You will
always be more exposed on Defense than on Offense. Therefore, controlling most
of the game on offense is your only chance to compete with said deficits.
Well the best way to control the game is to keep the
ball. To keep the ball, you have to have a method of collecting
first downs, maintain possessions, and score when you can, while eating the
clock, so as to limit the possessions of the stronger or more talented team.
This keeps you in the game, which ultimately can give you a chance to beat the
big boys.
The offense I run does just that, and better than
any other scheme, including the Flexbone, and without the complex reading and
the ball handling risk. It also has the capacity to run up massive yardage and
scores if the talent is fairly close. It's not as flashy and prissy pass pretty
as the new spreads but if your priority is winning over the aesthetics, this is
the best answer I can give, by far.
I do, however, find it wonderfully flashy when I'm
beating a team I have no business playing with on a talent level.
Let us all agree, Nothing beats really good athletes and really good
athletes make very average coaches look really good many times. In lieu of
having really good players all the time, or even some of the time, You can
however make up for a lot by extensive coaching and perfecting schemes that
accentuate the talent you do have. As a High School Head Coach, I AVERAGED just
under 390 yards and over 35 points per game with my Double Wing Offense. That is
with teams that before were having a hard time making a first down much less
winning a game. There has been so much said and written about the "Double Wing
Offense" and I've probably read and heard most of it! What I say
about it is first hand, and is backed by others achieving the same and far more
than I have.
There is not a
better example of this great offensive system and its' prowess than Paul
Benefield and the Fyffe Red Devils in Alabama. His record to date is 87-4 since
he installed the Gun-Wing. Now Benefield was a really good coach before, but
since the Gun-Wing, he has posted a ridiculous 144-7. One day he may figure this
football thing out. Ya think? ;-)
* What is
this Offense? FIRST OFF
it is an offensive System and philosophy and not merely football's beloved
double wing or Single Wing formations, which many offenses line up in from
time to time...NO, it's a complete system.... ***In it's beginning, A
California Policeman turned football coach named Don Markham developed an
offensive system, whether by accident or just in his own words that I seem to
recall, "looking for a good power play", in the late 80's and early 90's. Coach
Markham found himself coaching in the largest classification in California High
Schools at Bloomington, where in 1994, Don took a 1993, 1-9 Bloomington team,
and in 1994, just 8 months later, went undefeated and set the national all time
scoring record of 880 points in 14 games. 63 points per game I think it works
out to be.
However,
that is not how I discovered it.
I was working on my offense one day and on
"goal-line" work, I noticed my team really responding to a tighter scheme and a
harder nosed approach to our Goal line offense and so I thought, "hmmm", hey,
Why not run goal-line all over the field? As I investigated that Idea
further, I was looking around on the net one day at various things and tripped
up on this double wing stuff. My first thought was like so many other's, "NO
WAY". I made a phone call or two and grilled a few coaches and had them send me
some info. After watching film and some clinic footage, I knew very quickly that
this was going to be my offense, being that
it fit my football philosophy to the letter.
After implementing it and running it in a game as a
trial, I thought I may never run anything else and that happens to be the case
19 years later. I then began really working and studying this new science, and
tweaking this thing to the point that many things are fairly unique to the way I
approach it. Thus due to some YouTube videos I've posted, along with the success
I've had, I find myself being called on to clinic, and be a sounding board
of sorts on this particular offense for many coaches all over the country. So I
have, and will do clinics from time to time.
** Before
the Double Wing, I had been a very successful coach with my old schemes but
recognized that this new offense was going to boost my offense's reliability,
and productivity because this thing was doing what I'd been doing for years,
only better and with less risk. I realized too, that it would be very dependent
on good and rigorous coaching, which was my gig anyway.
I've always coached as if my hair was on fire, so this hit me right in my
wheelhouse.
The DW
offense, coached up, squeezes the most out of your talent.
The beauty of this Double wing or the "Gun Wing", is that it relies more on a
total TEAM concept, precision, desire, and hard work, than it does actual
God given physical gifts and skills. But like anything, the more skills you have
the better it will be. When you have a group that is low in skills, speed, or
even experience, you can still be competitive in the double Wing by it's low
risk, hard nosed Team oriented design to keep the ball and move the chains and
make the game shorter. What
the Double Wing allows you to do is
to replace the talent gap with hard nosed effort and execution, and less
vulnerability to make up the difference.
You can't do that in other offenses of today spreading your talent thin and in
space. The better players will beat up on the lesser talented kid in space every
time, to the point at times of being dangerous. Space gives the advantage to the
faster more athletic team. So many times my opponents over the years have had
these very strong explosive teams with great speed and talent and we just kept
the ball with 8 to 10 minute drives, limiting their opportunities to exploit our
weaknesses while on Defense, Meanwhile, making every possession by the opponent
critical. This is a big advantage of the Double wing. The bonuses are that you
DO produce big plays and score BIG as a trade off for maybe looking a little
different, when everyone else in the league is spread all over the field. This
offense is for those who puts winning above fashion and popularity of the
"Television football educated". My relentless desire to win has always been what
governs my decisions as a coach, and not the flavor of the month or coaching
trends of the entertainment world. The "Double Wing" or "Gun Wing", in my
opinion, are far more intriguing and interesting than those trendy, and loose
offenses anyway, with it's consistent output and execution and game control!
Being a series and sequence
offense, it also makes play calling a premium art as well.
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With all that is different about my offense, some may
scoff, some coaches may take a pass on it, but the one
group that I find that takes my offense very
seriously are the coaches facing it, or that have
faced it. The one thing I know for sure after running
this for well over a decade and a half, is that coaches
hate playing it, and defenses hate playing it, and what
is better than that for confirmation. No matter what the
outcome, when a team leaves the field after playing my
double wing, they usually have had enough, are
beat up, know they have been in a war, and probably
rather not do it again. It's just another day on the
grid iron for us, but it is physically brutal, draining,
and frustrating for defenses to deal with.
** After
years of running and tweaking the DW, I have implemented
something I'd been contemplating since 2005, when my
starting QB broke his arm. That would be the direct snap
Double Wing. I have discovered that it gives you a few
different and favorable options and angles in some
areas, and if coached up, can be as powerful as the the
regular DW. There is very little scheme difference, but
one huge bonus outside the X's and O's, is that with the
direct snap, it gives an illusion of being similar to
what you see on Saturdays and Sunday Television
Football. It is simply the shot-gun version of the
double wing! It immediately knocks down criticism from
the uneducated armchair viewers seeing the Double Wing
as maybe old school, and not modern, So it's a win win
in that way. I call it the GUN-WING for it's
appropriate. The Gun Wing though be it fantastic, does
however have some drawbacks from the original Double
Wing. It attacks somewhat slower, and It takes a few
very trustworthy plays out of the play arsenal as it was
once run, as well as NOT HIDING the ball quite as well.
That is a bit to give up when you're out-manned. Those
are the type of tradeoffs you have to make in going GUN
WING. However there are a few things you pick up with
the Gun-Wing such as hitting the holes more vertically,
cleaner pulling tracks, and a few play additions that
the pure double wing would not do as well. You can
also feature a Tailback type kid and feed the horse so
to speak, and also run the QB as an equal to the RB.
There are several teams around the country that make a
compelling case for the Gun-Wing and If I get a team
with really solid kids with some talent and desire, I
would consider Gun Wing full on.
See contact page if you would like to order Double Wing
Game footage CD's.
** So in wrapping up this bit on
The Double Wing and Gun-Wing Offense, I'll just say for those very few who have
the inclination to go a bit unique and run this "Wing Thing", I salute you and
"I Understand", for you are a coach that gets the wisdom, the soundness, and the
brilliance that is the DW. For those who think it's simply not for you, to
that I say, "I also Understand". This Thing is not for everyone, and definitely
not for the "try it and hope" coaches. It takes someone who can think and
operate with sound conviction, within the DW philosophy and structure, as
well as implement it properly. All without selling it out to a hybrid
interpretation of it. A coach also must have a really good
knowledge of the DW finer points, to work it, and to experience it's full
value. "It has certainly served me and my philosophy very well,
and it is by far the biggest part of my winning formula these
days"!
"PS": I've had to play the Double
Wing a few times myself.......Not Fun, Not Fun at all. I'd rather have to defend
anything else, quite honestly! LH
DOUBLE WING / GUN-WING... IT'S THE NEW MODERN OFFENSE
CHECK OUT Brigham Young using the
DW on goal line VS Utah for a walk in TD. WE can't keep anything sacred can we?
https://www.facebook.com/hugh.wyatt.7/videos/2098202783571059/?q=hugh%20wyatt
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A Letter to the Headmaster:
"I have to
share a letter written to my Principal at NGA written by a
relative of a player who happened to make our State
Championship Game. These are the rewards outside of the ring
that we never expect nor seek, but it's wonderful and quite
rewarding when it happens, and reassures us coaches that
occasionally, we may be doing something right". I give the
credit to the great kids I had the privilege to coach there
at Nathanael Greene Academy.
Dear Jim,
(Headmaster NGA),
The evening of Friday 11-19-2004 is an experience I will
never forget and one that I will always cherish. It was a
thrill and a pleasure to be on the sidelines with my family,
old friends, new friends, and those determined Patriot
football players. I have had a career in orthopedic
surgery in sports medicine that includes 35 years on the
sidelines with teams under my care in Virginia and Dalton,
GA. 32 of those years have involved being the Team Physician
for the Dalton High Catamounts. That allowed me to
witness first hand, numerous exciting regular season games,
playoff games, 2 trips to the GEORGIA DOME, and 4 state
championship games with the Dalton Catamounts. This exposure
has resulted in my taking care of athletes from close
to 25 high schools in Northwest and North Central Georgia.
Some of these I treated after they made it to college teams
and even to the NFL. During my training in orthopedic
surgery at the U of Virginia, I had the opportunity to be
the Team Physician for the Roanoke Buckskins in the Atlantic
Coast Football League. I have played the game and know what
it feels like to hurt someone, and get hurt, physically and
emotionally.
The
reason for the above diatribe is to express to you, Coach
Larry Harrison, and the Patriot Football Team,
the impression made on me during my visit to Rhodes Field.
I have never been more impressed with what I saw on and off
the field of play. The team gave all they had and more, and
no one who saw the game could think otherwise. The fan
support was incredible. The community and surrounding area
turned-out in a manner that created a championship
atmosphere. Regardless of the final score, The
Nat-Greene Patriots are Champions. Their opponent had the
size and the numbers, but they did not have the heart of the
gutsy team from the village of Siloam. I have
followed the Patriots all year via Coach Harrison’s website,
The Herald-Journal and through calls from my family. I have
bragged about the team to my Dalton friends, and after the
championship game, I have bragged even more. The misty rain
that fell throughout the game did not dampen the spirits of
all those present, players and fans alike. Thank you so much
for allowing me to be a part of such a wonderful event.
Congratulations to the Patriots for their fine season, and I
look forward to your having additional exciting times.
With
warmest regards,
C.H.E. , M.D.
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Coach Harrison has put on clinics from Arizona to
Canada, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas and
many in between for coaching staffs, seminars, and
or entire teams. If you would be interested in
having Coach Harrison clinic your staff or squad on
the double Wing or Gun-Wing Offense, please see
Contact Page for more... |
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A RUNNING
BACK'S PARADISE
The Double Wing is definitely a
running backs paradise, but if
you can throw or catch a
football, It will definitely
show you off as well. It puts
you in a well designed and
orchestrated system where you
can succeed on both ends of the
passing game with a very high
rate of completions and an
excellent yards per catch ratio.
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N E W S: (5-15-2018)
Don Markham, Football Coach and Creator of the Double Wing Offense Passes at age
78.
The Double Wing World
has a heavy heart today in learning the passing of the legendary and beloved
father of our own Double Wing Offense. He will be greatly missed, but more so,
remembered for inventing of one of the most powerful offensive football schemes
on the planet. Those who dare to run it, and repel the ignorant critiques of the
television armchair viewer, reaps many of the benefits this offense provides.
Coach Markham leaves a small but very appreciative and productive following of
coaches from coast to coast that rely on his offensive scheme and philosophy.
"Thank you Don Markham and may God bless you and your family"! |
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"Back in the day, I would send Don's wife Linda extra
money to copy and send me game film. I was determined to have the best study I
could on Don's Double Wing. I bought and studied everything I could get my hands
on back then and Linda was so sweet and kind to do that for me. I have no Idea
if Don knew about it or not, but I doubt he would have cared anyway. Evidently I
made it worth Linda's time. She seemed glad to do it! Good People"! |
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