Word: fullback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called "30-pull" in the San Francisco 49er playbook. The quarterback spins and fakes to the fullback who is following a pulling guard and tackle. But the ball is handed to O.J. Simpson, who takes it up the middle. But there was a difference last week as the 49ers called 30-pull late in their season finale with Atlanta: Simpson was carrying the ball for the last time after eleven years of professional football and a thick sheaf of records: most yardage in a single season; most career 200-plus-yard games (six); most consecutive 100-plus-yard games (seven...
...tried an unsuccessful pass to Solomon across the goal, their fullback stopped it and tried to clear it but as I leaned back, it bounded off my knee and went in," described Thomas, as he was heroically swarmed by fans after the game...
...trapped it with my left foot, swung it over to my right and tried to kick it out of bounds but he was coming in fast and I hit his knee," said Yale fullback Ken Stocker, while he walked off the field to Dillon alone...
Callinan, who has spent much of the season alternating with Al Altieri at fullback, exploded in last Saturday's upset win over Yale, bulling for 73 yards in 18 carries and another 62 yards on two receptions, one for a touchdown. Callinan's second catch, on a perfect post pattern, set up one of the Crimson scores...
...coach could complain about the work of Harvard's fullbacks. Captain John Sanacore, tough, hard-working, well-skilled on land and above it, will probably move up from the all-Ivy second team to the top Ivy squad. His mirror image at right fullback, Lorenzo DiBonaventura, played almost as well as Sanacore, while Duggan and Sergienko in the middle quickly learned to play well together and stop opponents from going for Harvard's jugular and drawing blood...