Fourth-year DeLand coach Rick Darlington likes to run the football. Always has. Always will.

He does it old-school, in the single-wing offense, like the leather-headed guys of yesteryear, who would grind it out and dare teams to stop them.

It’s nothing fancy, or so Darlington will tell you. Hand off the football, block the guys in front of you and run.

Sure, he’ll tell you he will disguise things once in a while, snapping the football out of the I-formation, or sending receivers out in the spread.

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Darlington, whose Apopka teams battered their way to state championships in 2001, 2012 and 2014, said this isn’t the best rushing team he has ever had, but the numbers being put up by undefeated DeL

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