The running plays are more rugbyish, and there is much less strategy and technique in the line play, but it is still recognisably football, more so than basketball and soccer are from that era.
No. 3 is Bronco Nagurski
By the 1960s, you can see much more precision and deception in the blocking and route-running. But it is the defense that is most different. Instead of getting into a position and just trying to stop whatever comes to them, the defense is playing more angles and shifting around. If you grew up with this, as I did you have some tendency to see this as not all that different from the modern game. But it is...
...which you can see immediately in the film in the 1990s. Much more misdirection and finding seams in the strategy, the passing depends much more on timing.
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