Sentences with phrase «football halfback»

At 5 feet 11 inches and 177 pounds, Palmer isn't big, but he is wonderfully coordinated, with the build of a football halfback.

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William De Shields, senior halfback for the Laurel Highlands High football team in Union - town, Pa., gained 339 yards in 19 carries and scored touchdowns on runs of 64, 72, 73 and 74 yards, while leading his team to a 26 - 20 victory over Belle Vernon High.

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.

Dye played the outfield for Buffalo of the International League and halfback for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.

# 8 LaVell Edwards OREM All - Conference halfback at Utah State in 1950 has coached BYU football team to 251 wins, 19 conference titles and»84 national championship.

Auburn coach Pat Dye's list of concerns for spring practice seemed normal enough: 1) Find a quarterback to run his read - and - react wishbone attack; 2) Replace placekicker Al Del Greco; 3) Hope that consensus All - America halfback Bo Jackson (page 134), who had skipped spring football to take a run at making the Olympic track team, didn't catch terminal tetanus from a cinder burn.

«I played halfback on the football team in high school,» he said, «and ran a little in the spring and summer.

Under Section 501 (C)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, contributions to educational institutions are tax exempt; in other words, a rich and rabid football fan can deduct the cost of sending a swivel - hipped halfback to his favorite seat of learning.

Years later, Dick Hanley, a halfback on the team, would recall, «For two weeks before the game we were busy all day filming the football scenes.

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.

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.

FOOTBALL Northwestern, seeking way out of Big Ten cellar, pinned hopes on 32 - year - old Ara Parseghian, onetime Cleveland Browns halfback who had unbeaten team at Miami of Ohio, signed him to 3 - year contract.

FOOTBALL — WASHINGTON REDSKINS, completing their second trade since the end of the 1961 season, sent 250 - pound center Jim Schrader and defensive halfback Ben Scotti to Philadelphia in exchange for hard - running halfback Bill Barnes and defensive back Bobby Freeman.

Blessed with a magnificent physique, tremendous speed and an apparently bottomless supply of gutty determination, LSU's bowlegged left halfback may be the best college football player in America.