Drawing Football Plays in PowerPoint to Create Youth Football Playbook

BySteve Parker
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Drawing Football Plays in PowerPoint to Create Youth Football Playbook is really easy once you get your templates set up and then its just copy, cut, paste and apply. 1-2-3 Simple and you can create a football playbook template PowerPoint. Best drawing software app to draw and design youth football plays, diagrams, formations and playbooks.

This is Part 2 in Creating a Youth Football Playbook using MS PowerPoint, Google Slides and other digital tools. This is part of an overall how to coaching tech effort of how to draw football plays on computer with free or close to free resources. Power Point and Google Slides are pretty close to free football play designer apps and software. A majority of youth football coaches have this software available to them.

See Part 1 – How to Draw Football Plays for #1 Best Custom Play Diagrams

If you are interested in downloading the file, I posted it over on my new Facebook group Coaching Youth Football with Coach Parker.

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Drawing Football Plays in PowerPoint

In this Part 2 how to tutorial on Drawing Football Plays in PowerPoint to Create Youth Football Playbook with a close to free football play designer app like Powerpoint, Coach Parker uses the free hand draw tools menu to draw football plays and update a youth football playbook template. He also draw up a play using blank football diagram sheets in MSPP. The overall goal of this video series and project is to create a blank football playbook powerpoint template that is free.

Powerpoint also has some interesting play simulation software built in. You can see some of my earlier defensive videos where players are moving. But using this animation tool is a different video in this series on how to create a PowerPoint playbook. In this video we will stay focused on drawing football plays in PowerPoint with the freehand tools.

In the past, I have set up football playbook templates in Word, Visio, Playmake Pro and Excel, but I prefer setting up a football PowerPoint presentation style youth football playbook. It is so easy to draw in PowerPoint and also move around the slides in the organization tool. Most of my youth football playbooks are done in MS PowerPoint and tuned into Adobe pdf files. All of them are drawn in PowerPoint. I think it is the best football play design software, well for me it is the best and easiest software app for drawing football plays in PowerPoint.

When I start using PowerPoint to draw a youth football playbook I will start out by setting up football formation PowerPoint templates. The same is true for a playbook template Google Slides. So, I would say in most cases set up diagram templates first to establish your blank football playbook template. These templates will make it easier to cut, copy, paste, adjust, insert etc in the future. You will not need to recreate the plays but just adjust the base drawn plays and formations for any new playbook edits. This is why drawing football plays in PowerPoint is uncomplicated especially for those that have used MS Office tools for work.

Freehand with Template

The cool thing about PowerPoint and Google Slides you can turn them into an online playbook by saving them to the cloud. You cam also set them to share and collaborate within your coaching staff to get the play diagrams just right for your youth football playbook in PowerPoint.

I hope you enjoyed the Drawing Football Plays in PowerPoint to Create Youth Football Playbook post. Stay tuned for Part 3 soon.

See Part 1 – How to Draw Football Plays for #1 Best Custom Play Diagrams

Part 3 – YouTube Video – Drawing Multiple Football Plays

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Coach Parker
Fort Worth, Texas

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