Sentences with phrase «when halfback»

Not exact matches

And while the point about Separation's being no threat to Redeemed may be comforting to us all, it becomes allegorically suspect when it requires a defensive end to stand stock - still while across the field a cocky halfback threads his way through falling bodies to paydirt.

Pack, a little halfback who became a poet when he grew up, ranged behind the defensive linemen, exhorting them.

When MIT's Professor Compton gazed into the atomic future a halfback named Ken Fields was playing for West Point; today Brigadier General Kenneth Fields is general manager of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

The Brennan boys are, however, nephews of former Notre Dame Halfback Johnny Lattner, who won the 1953 Heisman Trophy when he played halfback at South Bend and who now runs a restaurant in Chicago.

Some will tell of the 1970 football game against Neodesha when Mike, defensive halfback, stole a pass from an enemy's very fingertips and raced 85 yards for a touchdown.

Fullback Mel Triplett thundered inside the Brown tackles throughout the first half, then, when Coach Paul Brown adjusted his defense to close that avenue, Triplett thundered up the middle without the ball while the Giant halfbacks scampered around the undermanned flanks.

There are only two occasions when it's acceptable for a grown man to cry: while listening to Lou Gehrig's farewell speech and while watching Brian's Song, the 1971 tearjerker about Bears halfback Gale Sayers and his doomed teammate Brian Piccolo.