Word: halfback
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...Ralph Bennett of Haversville, Conn., a rifleman in the lead platoon, began firing his Garand when the Chinese attacked. His squad mates saw him go down, like a tackled halfback, under a swarm of enemy. When four husky Chinese began dragging him away, the other Americans held their fire for fear of hitting their own man. But Bennett wrenched free, knocked one Chinese down, and ran for his own outfit, with several Reds in hot pursuit. Bennett yelled for covering fire, and a U.S. machine gunner dropped the Chinese who were chasing him. Five yards from the shelter...
Those were the days when a football eleven was just that. Wood was an out-standing defensive halfback as well as a triple-threat offensive star. He greeted the current platoon system "with mixed feelings." Pleased to see more students getting a chance to participate, the Doctor, nevertheless, regarded the change as confusing and disadvantageous to the spectator...
West Point: class of 1915; better than average in scholarship, ranking 61st in a graduating group of 164; worse than average in conduct, ranking 95th among the 164. A good halfback, Cadet Ike badly wrenched his knee in a rough game with the Carlisle Indians, whose star was the great Jim Thorpe; in a subsequent game he broke the knee, then injured it further in the riding hall and had to quit football for good. Among Ike's classmates were Omar Bradley (who stood sixth in conduct), James Van Fleet, the late Vernon Prichard (a top West Point football...
Yale is in roughly the same position. It has fewer first-string football players, although captained by Yale's 1950 star halfback Ed Senay...
...star Drake halfback was slugged...