Coach Po Talks Football

How do you pick the perfect run angle in a field with equal-speed opponents?

You don't have to guess: there's actually a beautifully simple way to eyeball the exact optimal direction to run in. It turns out to be related to perpendicular lines and Geometry, yet instantly and visually estimable by just about anybody!

This trick is surprisingly unknown. Indeed, the presenter only first made the connection this week, despite spending years in the football strongholds of Madison, WI, UCLA, and Pittsburgh, PA.

For deeper variations on this theme, try this week's football math puzzles at http://expii.com/solve/9/1

In real life, Po-Shen Loh is the national coach of our country's International Math Olympiad team (http://wpo.st/_guV0), a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University (http://goo.gl/kxx8hv), and founder of crowd-sourced learning platform expii.com.

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