I received this suggestion on football tackling drills from Brett. Great idea–keep them coming!
From Brett,
Team Tackling Drill
Split your football team into two equal groups.
One team starts with a guy on every ten yard line.
The boundaries are 5 yards wide, and ten yards long for each player on the team (the runner has to run in straight line and get past a tackler at every ten yards without stepping out of bounds), and if a runner steps out of bounds, the play is over and 1 point is awarded to the tackling team.
After every new runner the tackling team players move up to the ten yard ahead of them so everyone gets a chance to be the first defender. The tacklers can only be in their 10 yard area, and must release once the runner steps onto the next players yard line. Losing team runs one conditioning drill. Points are awarded like this. The running team can only get points by getting past all defenders, and that is worth 5 points.
There is no reason someone should get past 5 or more people trying to tackle one guy with no blockers! Tacklers get 1 point for a runner going out of bounds for any reason. 2 points for causing a fumble, but 3 for getting the fumble. Both teams get to run and tackle.
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