6 beats
- Beats
- Clamp
- Box out
- Cut
- Ground ball
- Carry
- Recover
- Pass
- Sub
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Face-offs
FOGO Off or Stay On
Verified in part · checked against CoachUp and The Daily Princetonian, with The Boston Globe, USA Lacrosse Magazine and Wikipedia
The play, beat by beat
- 1FOGO clamps itRight Wing boxes out his man
- 2FOGO wins the ground ball and cuts
- 3FOGO carriesTheir FOGO recovers
- 4FOGO passes to Attack RightAttack Right pops
- 5FOGO subs off
- 6Offensive Middie subs onTheir FOGO marks Offensive Middie
Coaching points
- FOGO means face off and get off. Once we have it and there is no fast break, give it up and run off at the table so an offensive middie can come on (CoachUp; The Daily Princetonian).
- If you have the fast break, stay on and attack it. Quicker play off the face-off has more face-off men getting involved on offense (The Boston Globe, 2021).
- A wing who only plays face-offs comes off too once the possession settles (USA Lacrosse Magazine).
- Never sub in the middle of a fast break: you give the extra man back (LaxLibrary).
How it was checked
A standard play the sources back, but a step or detail of it rests on a single source or on our own reading of them. Verified in part · checked against CoachUp and The Daily Princetonian, with The Boston Globe, USA Lacrosse Magazine and Wikipedia.
