Sentences with phrase «as halfback»

A straight - A student, he also got the Atlanta Touchdown Club scholar - athlete award as a halfback.

JOHN WINTERHOLLER, WYOMING One of the best athletes ever to attend the University of Wyoming — he won 12 varsity letters, including four as a halfback in football — John Winterholler turned down offers to play professional baseball after graduation and went instead to Marine officer - training school.

Though comic in appearance, fullback spinner plays are as essential to the single wing as halfback dives are to the T.

Not exact matches

For openers there was Johnny Musso, a 191 - pound halfback known as the Italian Stallion.

A man who named his racehorse «Concrete Charlie» showed up, as did one man who said he attended the iconic 1960 game at Yankee Stadium where Bednarik cemented himself into NFL folklore with a knockout hit on Giants halfback Frank Gifford.

As the third quarter ran out, Oregon State halfback Gene Gray raced into the flat.

The pass, as in the inside drive, looks like running play and may be thrown by quarterback or either halfback.

Then a broken collarbone and an appendectomy kept him out of action until his last five games as a senior, which he played at halfback.

Stevens counts in his football scrapbook only six high school games, five of them as an undistinguished running halfback, plus three games with a ball - control Texas Western freshman team for which he threw only 45 passes.

You could get a running game going behind the double tights, although some people, such as Bill Walsh, firmly believe that it's less efficient than the fullback - halfback combination.

The ends are split wide, the two halfbacks and the fullback arrayed close behind the line of scrimmage, and Bork, as isolated as a tree on a bare prairie, takes his station eight to 10 yards back of the center.

He will have sufficient help in the backfield with returning halfback Jaden Burns and additional young legs to spell him, as needed.

Royal noted a tendency of Arkansas halfbacks to play wide and move wider as the ball was snapped.