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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I'm really curious what happened in 1947.
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I'm going to guess that it was the combination of the T-formation and the end of WWII.
The T-formation came on board in the NFL around 1939, but it took until 1953 until the Steelers finally gave up the single wing. So it came on slowly during that time period.
However, the full effects of the T formation were probably blunted by some degree due to WWII sucking a lot of talent away from football. Allow a year for the talent pool to recover from the war and for them to learn in intricacies of the T formation and boom, you get a step change in scoring and passing.