Sentences with phrase «halfback for»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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

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

Among those who heaped anguish upon the Texans were sophomores Joe Washington, a halfback who ran for 117 yards in only 12 tries, and Steve Davis, a quarterback and licensed Baptist minister.

The game would have ended in a tie had not Duke blocked Mickey Cissell's try for the extra point following Arkansas» only score, made on a brilliant 49 - yard punt return by Lance Alworth, the great Arkansas halfback.

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.»

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.

One of the halfbacks, 176 - pound Vic Washington, led the country in punt returns (34 for 443 yards and two TDs) and can beat anyone in the state of Wyoming in the 100 - yard dash.

Kyle Rote, after running, over and over again, a pattern which sent him down to Milt Davis, the Colt defensive halfback, then in toward the middle of the field, informed Conerly that he had Davis set up for a fake.

The big game between the service academies is an even match — except for one halfback shaped like a depth bomb

So early in the season it seems Danville, led by scrappy Keanu Andrade and skillful Kyle Makaiwi at the halfback positions, is poised for another run.

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.

The running game is strong with sophomore halfback Kerry Goode and All - SEC fullback Ricky Moore, a senior who last year rushed for 947 yards, the most a «Bama back has gained since Johnny Musso got 1,088 in 1971.

There are even those, it seems, who would like to deduct the added cost of luring the athlete to old Siwash State — an expense that sometimes runs into quite a sum, what with a new convertible for the prospect's father and a new automatic washing machine for Mom, along with numerous trips to the campus and appropriate accompanying entertainment for the halfback himself.

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.

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.

The halfback rushed for 176 yards and three touchdowns on just 18 attempts.

One discovers that there are teams that prefer to drive the ball deep down the field with a single kick and hope to win the ultimate scramble for it; teams that have super-duper wingers like Stanley Matthews, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, who can carry the ball single - footedly down the sideline before looping a pass to the forwards bunched in front of the goal; teams that specialize in position play, with a fullback bringing the ball up 20 yards, then passing off to a halfback and retaining his position, and so on down the field; teams that pass and pass and pass, cuties in spikes, until one begins to wonder if anyone knows how to shoot.

With the Golden Dome and Pat O'Brien and those screaming thousands at South Bend it looked like a setup for Notre Dame, but coldly professional Purdue and its red - hot halfback turned the Irish rooters green

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.

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

# 28 (Bullet) Bill Dudley BLUEFIELD Virginia halfback led nation in all - purpose yards in 1941; led NFL in rushing for Steelers -LRB-» 46).

You would tell your halfbacks, «Scan your sides of the field after every play to look for that sleeper.»

The Arizona depth chart at halfback would immediately look bare, but it's way easier to imagine the Cardinals finding a replacement running back later in this draft than it is for them to find a franchise quarterback at pick 15.

The Carolinas, North and South, are centers of the «halfback» movement — retirees who move to Florida from the North, decide it's not for them and move halfway back.