I'm taking a bit of a work break so I had to keep it under control--but I laughed (well, snickered given the circumstances) at this.Bit of a tangent.... during the mid-70's, I attended an Ohio State at Wisconsin game. Woodie Hayes was still the OSU coach then(he hadn't attempted to strangle an opposing player yet); and the Badgers were gawd-awful. By the middle of the second quarter OSU was up by double digits - solely on the run game. The Badger student section was thoroughly inebriated and annoyed with the condition of the game; so they started chanting "Woodie's a pecker, Woodie's a pecker". That certainly helped inter-mural fan relations in the stands....
Seems to me Hayes' strangulation attempt came in 1977 or so, since I have vague memories of Earle Bruce as the OSU coach when I lived in suburban Cincinnati in the very late '70s. With Bruce instead of Hayes, OSU lost its villain status for me. But I digress.
I agree with Dr. Lessard above that the wishbone offense could be interesting in its own right--and I went to college at Delaware in the early '70s, when Tubby Raymond's wing-T was the offense (running over the likes of Temple, Rutgers, the Citadel, and Villanova). That too could be a model for a no-forward-pass version of what we know as football in the US.
Also, this makes me wonder: without the forward pass, could the US and Canadian games have pretty much been one and the same, say, with a larger field, present-day punt and scoring rules, and something like four or five downs to get 15 or 20? That could make for college football pitting, say, Maryland against McGill or Delaware against Saskatchewan.