Word: halfbacks
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...freshman, Szaro played halfback for Harvard and broke the freshman scoring record with seven touchdowns. In the summer before his sophomore year, Szaro suffered a foot injury and was unable to play varsity ball...
...past through looking at the remnants of the South of his youth, and he is at his best when writing about anachronisms, people who have been left behind in the shuffle of progress. There is, for example, his father, a diehard independent trucker; Bob Suffridge, the former all-American halfback for Tennessee who is now an alcoholic in Knoxville; Jabe Thomas, one of the only major-circuit stock car racers who does not having backing from Detroit; and a series of once-promising baseball players who never made it. Failures and dying breeds are Hemphill's stock-in-trade...
Peter Dawkins, 36. An All-America halfback...
From Wyncote, Jackson went to Arizona State University as a promising halfback on a football scholarship. When he started blasting baseballs out of Phoenix Municipal Stadium, the big-league scouts turned up in droves and Jackson signed with the Kansas City A's after his sophomore year for an $85,000 bonus...
...runs in the other. Two or three new plays are usually added every year, and some marginally successful tactics are revised. The Dolphins' most successful new plays in the past few years have been those in the "misdirection" series. In this gambit the ball is faked to Halfback Mercury Morris running a sweep, then handed off to Fullback Larry Csonka. He is supposed to drive up the middle through a hole theoretically created when opposing linemen chase Morris...