John Heisman & Auburn Invented the HUNH 114 Years Ago

[AUChizad]

http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2013/08/john-heisman-on-auburns-hurry-up-offense/#.Ug5jntifiM1

John Heisman on Auburn’s hurry-up offense
Written by Jeremy Henderson Featured, Vintage Aug 16, 2013

When word of Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema’s SEC Media Days comments about “normal American football” reached heaven, like Gus Malzahn, former Auburn coach John Heisman thought it was a joke.

From a column Heisman wrote about his days on the Plains (which sadly does not include further insight on the play that saved Auburn football) printed in an early issue of Auburn’s alumni magazine:

    The team of ’99—my last at Auburn—was a great one. It only weighed about 160 (pounds per player), but its speed and team work were something truly wonderful. I do not think I have ever seen so fast a team as that was. It would line up and get the ball in play at times before the opposing players were up off the ground. You see it was a ‘stunt’ of ours to catch them off side and get the benefit of the penalty. Nowadays no team is taken by surprise by such lightning lining up; but that Auburn team of ’99 was the first to show what could be done with speedy play, and then it wasn’t long before all other teams were laboring with might and main to inject speed into their work.

Normal Auburn Football: Endangering the lives of opposing defenses with the hurry-up offense since 1899! And apparently the first to do so. Probably because we were all hopped up on cocaine.

For more of Heisman’s Auburn remembrances, here’s a letter he wrote to Auburn students when he left.

[Saniflush]

http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2013/08/john-heisman-on-auburns-hurry-up-offense/#.Ug5jntifiM1

Chad that is solid money!

[wesfau2]

Awesome.

[The Prowler]

TigersX t-shirt worthy?

HUNH since 1899

"The Auburn team of 1899 was the fastest I've ever seen and the first to show what could be done with speedy play, and then it wasn’t long before all other teams were laboring with might and main to inject speed into their work." - Auburn HC John Heisman