by Scott Schrage | University Communication
Nebraska’s Tim Gay wrote the book on the physics of football. Really. It’s right there in the title, “Football Physics: The Science of the Game.”
How do Newton’s laws of motion apply to blocking and tackling? Ask Tim. How does altitude affect the flight of a football? Ask Tim. How can a coach calculate a cornerback’s optimal pursuit angle? Ask Tim.
Gay knows so much about it that he once became a Huskervision star by explaining it to sell-out crowds that filled Memorial Stadium, his talking head filling jumbotron screens for minute-long segments during Husker timeouts.
“That was a great gig,” he said. “I was teaching the biggest physics class in the world, and I didn’t have to do any grading.”
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