Sentences with phrase «of halfback»

But compared with most sport - utilities, the Crown Vic is a lightweight, with the agility of a halfback.

Couples is sturdy, 5» 11» and 185, with the haunches of a catcher and the upper body of a halfback.

Sidestepping all questions with the aplomb of his halfback, Joe Don Looney, Wilkinson would only say, «I'm not tired of coaching.

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.

But nowadays some of our halfbacks are beginning to act like trade unionists.

Any team that has such players in its line - up, the primary aim of the halfbacks is to earn a corner kick or a penalty, to create more chances.

Not exact matches

But according to the record he didn't send out a direct - mail piece urging Christians to see him in person at the sports arena flanked by the recently born - again coach and halfback of the Super Bowl champions.

Leon Lubbio, a halfback with toppling waves of blond hair, was their leading ground gainer.

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

By then many of the region's prominent schools had homed in on other tailbacks, so Tomlinson went to TCU in Fort Worth, where in his sophomore season new coach Dennis Franchione moved him from starting halfback to starting fullback to backup 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

But on the positive side are the redoubtable Howard Cassady and Jerry Harkrader at halfbacks, possibly the best halfback combination in the country, with plenty of speed to the outside coupled with power to the inside.

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.

A halfback from Oregon State, Lowe had been cut by the 49ers and was working in the mail room of the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

With no turnovers, a blue - collar performance by halfback Raymont Harris (33 carries, 116 yards) and a bruising defensive effort that held the Bucs» backfield tandem of Mike Alstott and Warrick Dunn to a combined 22 yards rushing, Chicago (2 - 10) followed Wannstedt's formula to perfection.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

But he told them of the windows he'd broken and the candy bars he'd stolen, and how removed all that is from what he is now, an All - America halfback, near world - class sprinter, baseball prodigy and, though just a junior, this season's favorite to win the Heisman Trophy.

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 49ers workeven after practice, a fact that has impressed Hugh McElhenney, San Francisco «smarvelous halfback of some years ago.

His death came exactly 17 weeks after that of Tide halfback George Scruggs, who was killed in a car crash.

Newcastle returns to its normal, cool style; a fullback dribbles the ball 15 or 20 yards, then slips a short pass to a halfback, who carries a few yards and passes to another halfback, who rips a curving, spinning drive around a defender and spang on the foot of a forward.

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.

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.

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.

And to take advantage of the tendency of the Arkansas halfbacks to drift to the outside, Royal decided on quick short passes to the ends in the middle.

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

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.

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

«The receivers come back to the huddle and tell you what kind of pattern they can beat a halfback on.

If you're a CHF and lead to halfback, where a free kick is given, you're sent back 50 meters, which takes you out of the next play (presumably this is only meant to happen after a goal).

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.