The Nihon Phoenix football program, established in 1940, represents Nihon University in college football. Nihon is a member of the Kantoh Collegiate American Football Association. Nihon Phoenix football has been a powerhouse in Japan's college football along with the Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters for four decades. Nihon has won the Japanese collegiate championships 17 times, including 5 in a row when Mikio Shinokake was the team's head coach. Shinokake adopted the shotgun formation as the team's basic offensive formation. He often had played the team's best athlete as a quarterback in the formation, and the QB would play the dual role of both quarterback and tailback. The strategy worked very well because the size and the power of Japanese defenders had not been big nor strong enough to injure the QB, making the defenders confused whether the quarterback intended to pass the ball or keep the ball for qb draw. Nihon sometimes used the Dragonfly formation which is a variation of the shotgun formation where two quarterbacks are aligned at the same time in the formation. These QBs also play the dual role of QB and tailback, then it is almost the same as if four players were aligned in the backfield. Nihon scored two touchdowns using the formation against the College of William & Mary at the Ivy Bowl in 1993. More information...
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