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Abstract

This device is for use in practice for offensive football players to learn to avoid being tackled by the defensive football players. It consists of a pair of soft spaced apart dummies, simulating the defensive players, the dummies each being suspended by a spring from opposite ends of a bar which in turn is supported on a rotatable shaft at one end of a rod slidably and rotatably supported through a horizontal tube fixed on the top of a supporting stantion, preferably supported in turn on a conventional football training sled. Another rotatable shaft depends from the opposite end of the slidable, rotatable rod. A pulley is secured to each shaft, and a handle is secured to the bottom of the pulley at this opposite end, a cable passing about both pulleys, so that rotation of the pulley with the handle, which is manually controlled by the trainer, correspondingly rotates the other pulley and thus rotates the player simulating dummies. The trainer can thus control the position of the dummies, as well as their angle, so that he can slide the dummies back and forth, and by rotating the handle horizontally, can rotate the dummies slightly, as desired, to change their angle to the approaching offensive player thus teaching him to change his approach, while by rotating the handles vertically slightly, can cause the dummies to tilt slightly, thus giving the trainee practice in running between two tacklers at different angles. Thus the trainee can practice and learn evasive tactics without danger of hurting himself, or of hurting a live defensive player as often happens with the present system of practice with live players of both sides.

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