Single-wing
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In American and Canadian football, a single-wing formation is any offensive formation having exactly one wingback and one tight end aligned together. However, the term usually connotes formations in which the snap is tossed rather than handed. Formations with one wingback and a handed snap are commonly called "wing T" or "winged T".
The single wing is an offensive formation that features a core of 4 backs. A halfback, fullback, and two wingbacks. The single wing offense is a run-oriented offense featuring a direct snap to one of the backs, misdirection, gap/down blocking, and no line splits.
Among coaches, single wing football denotes a direct snap formation as well as a style of play that evolved from Glen "Pop" Warner's offensive style of play. Although the Single-wing has lost much of its popularity since World War II, its characteristic features are still prevalent in all levels of modern football. They include pulling guards, double teams, play action passes, laterals, wedge blocking, trap blocking, the sweep, the reverse and the quick kick.
The advent of the T formation in the 1940's led to a decline in the use of the Single-wing formations, but this style of football is still practiced by a small group of teams across the country, almost exclusively at the high school and youth levels.
