Sentences with phrase «played halfback»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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).