Sentences with word «halfback»

He changed up the offense weekly, even calling plays like the occasional halfback pass, prompting Feren to think, Wow, OK, I guess he trusts us.

South Carolinians also found their hero in Joe Morrison, the former New York Giant halfback who pulled off rebuilding miracles at Tennessee - Chattanooga and New Mexico before arriving in Columbia.

The evolution to the ground game does a great job catering to the varying different styles of halfback present in the game today.

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.

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

Look where his they - can «t - stop - me attitude has taken him: No longer skinny, at 6» 1», 212 pounds, the 23 - year - old Watters is the starting halfback for the 10 - 2 San Francisco 49ers and one of the few fresh talents to burst onto the NFL scene this season.

Reese is a former Tennessee State halfback with a mantelpiece for a set of shoulders.

In Hood River star left halfback Bob Dethman's father, Alfred, generously put two boxes of apples on board.

The week before they lost a first - string defensive halfback Bobby Holladay — who broke an ankle.

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.

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.

The apple of his eye is a 178 - pound halfback from Buckner, Ill. named Whitey Rouviere (pronounced Revere).

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

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.

In 1954, he made it to the NFL, then became Washington's starting halfback, until an automobile accident ended his career.

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

# 18 Creighton Miller WILMINGTON Notre Dame All - America halfback ran for 911 yards and 13 TDs to help Irish to 1943 national championship.

One of his teammates was Paul Hornung, somewhat better known as a Heisman Trophy winner and star halfback for Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers.

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

He came back to the huddle kinda wobbly, so the quarterback tells him they're gonna run the same play, only he's faking and the other halfback's carrying.

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

A 200 - pound fullback, Don (The Brute) Bosseler, comes from Batavia, N.Y.. Two extremely fast halfbacks are from Pennsylvania — Jack Losch (Williamsport) and Don Dorshimer (Allentown).

He is John Marchitell of Hobart College, a senior halfback who by the end of his seventh game this season had gained 923 yards rushing in 129 carries, for an average of 7.1 yards per carry, and has practically rewritten the Hobart record book.

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

# 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.

Flybacks Lucas Baiocchi and Tyler Brendel, along with halfback Ben Smith, each had scoring runs in the Grizzlies» first 11 plays from scrimmage.

«There are at least 15 better halfbacks... and all of them would love to play just once against Colgate — or Harvard,» claimed a newsletter published by Penn State, which had heavily recruited Marinaro.

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.

On the soccer field she was an All - County center halfback who helped Nanuet capture the Section 9 Class B title and advance to the New York State semifinals.

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.

Gallman, one of the nation's most underrated halfbacks, added 150 of his own, scoring two touchdowns in the process.

Wallace finished 30/39 passing for 346 yards, while halfback Jaylen Walton rushed for 106 yards and two scores.

With fourth and one, Bosseler, a 205 - pound fullback, came off the bench and hurtled into the Maryland line with his customary violence — but Oliver, the right halfback, had the ball and a first down on the other side of the line.

When halfback Wayne Gallman dove into the end zone on the tenth play of the fourth quarter, the game was effectively over.

The junior halfback, tailback, slot back, fly back, cornerback, safety and returns specialist for Capital Christian High School in Sacramento has all of the chances to do that.

PAT UEBEL, fb: Was halfback last year but hits hard and likes to run over people.

Fast, agile, will outrun halfback to catch pass unless played deep.

End Pete Varney, Tackle Fritz Reed, Halfbacks Ray Hornblower and Steve Harrison (a sophomore), Quarterback Frank Champi and defensemen John Cramer and Rick Frisbie put brimstone in Puritan Power.

Halfbacks Al Worley and Frank Smith and Safeties Dave Dupree and Bob Pederson are all back for the deep secondary.

But the hard core that remained learned to play the game «from the heart,» as Don McKeta, a former Washington halfback, once phrased it.

Their colors arrived just in time for Chaves, Dethman, halfback Don Durdan and back Joe Day to dress in full pads for press pictures.

Scared Straight Fresh off a sobering 90 - day stay in a Texas jail, free - agent halfback Bam Morris is trying to put his life and career back together

Rudy had been examining the bruised ribs of Mike Garrett, the Kansas City rookie halfback who had won the Heisman Trophy for 1965 at USC, but he turned to Headrick and said, «Come on, Sherrill, we're going to the hospital.»

Left halfback Jim Crowley scored both touchdowns.

Ed Vereb, hustling Maryland halfback, gained 132 yards in 15 attempts to pace 34 - 13Terrapin victory over Syracuse.

He looked happily around the room — at Gilmar, the colorful goalie who has joined Pelé on almost every all - star team; at Carlos Alberto, the fiery halfback; at Pepe, the aging star who has been Pelé's closest friend in Santos; and at Edu, the 17 - year - old hailed as Pelé's eventual successor.

The Niners parted with six offensive starters in all, including four former Pro Bowl performers: quarterback Jeff Garcia, halfback Garrison Hearst, wideout Terrell Owens and guard Ron Stone.

He is a natural halfback but operates at fullback so that Lowe, who has chronic leg trouble but is a tear - away threat, can be in the game at the same time.