Word: halfback
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...sometime prizefighter, Jimmy averaged 14.9 yds. a try as a high school halfback. Spurning baseball offers (from the New York Yankees and Milwaukee Braves), he packed off to Syracuse, majored in football and sociology and minored in track, lacrosse and basketball. As a greenhorn pro, he rushed for 942 yds., scored ten TDs and powered Cleveland to the N.F.L.'s Eastern Conference championship. The next year he set an alltime rushing record of 1,527 yds. and for five years topped all N.F.L. ground gainers...
...scrummage is used to put the ball back in play and not to help a team advance. The scrum halfback throws the ball into the scrum, and both teams have an equal opportunity to "heel it" or "wheel it" out to their backs, where as in football, one team begins in possession of the ball...
First blood went to center forward Cormack O'Malley, who capitalized on a well-placed kick by sophomore halfback Rob Knapp to blast a goal less than three minutes after the kick-off. Spectators settied back in expectation of a score in two digits, but after this opening effort, the Crimson forward line ran into a solid wall of Tufts defenders. Depleting their own attack forces to cover every Harvard player, the Jumbos managed to prevent another score in the first period...
...much publicized "weakness" in the Harvard halfback wall seemed to be a myth, and the sophomore depth in these positions in encouraging. New varsity players on the line--Fred Akuffo, Azinna Nwafor, Morgan Hudson, and Hugh Polk--acquired needed experience to use this Saturday against Amherst, a perennially tough opponent. With inside John Thorndike off the sick list, the varsity has a good opportunity to avenge last year's defeat by the Lord Jeffs...
...determination and courage of the entire team was magnificently displayed on three successive plays late in the third quarter. Welchel had suddenly reorganized his attack, bringing the ball within the Harvard 30. Swift halfback Fred Lewis took a pitch-out and dug hard toward right end, a pasture populated only sparsely at the time. Just before he broke into the open, Tom Bilodeau recovered from a block and restrained the determined Lewis...