The Gold and Green's tigerish rushes were hurled back--three times Captain Butch threw his backfield against the line, and three times not an inch was gained.
Toward the last of the period he was put to catching punts with a half-dozen other backfield candidates and performed to his own satisfaction at least.
And in furtherance of that plan the coach strode across to the first team backfield and metaphorically ripped Myron up the back, to the bewilderment of Myron and the puzzlement of Jud and Joe and Katie and some others!
He was a big addition to the backfield on defence, using his weight very knowingly, and more than one St. Luke's gain was nipped in the bud by him.
The Trumbull line had faltered and the Canton backfield was through with Drake again carrying the ball.
Three times the second team backfield dove into the first team line.
One of the things that helped me most in my backfield play was Pooch Donovan's coaching.
Down the backfield the player sped towards his own goal.
Like Graves, Bunker in spite of his great weight, was fast enough to play in the backfield in those years when Army elevens were relying so much upon terrific power.
Early in the fall of 1908 Haughton heard rumors that the Indians were equipping their backfield in a very peculiar fashion.
Time was called for some reason, and we noticed that the backfieldmen were clustered about Crowther, our quarterback.
There are many football enthusiasts who recall that wonderful backfield that Dartmouth had, McCornack, Eckstrom, McAndrews and Crolius.
Casad, Clark and Phillips made up a backfield that would have been a credit to any of the colleges.
The greatest three players from any one family that ever played the backfield would probably be the three Draper brothers--Louis, Phil and Fred.
The backfield coach has the picking of men for their positions.
Then again the plunge, hard and quick, the whole Claflin backfield behind it!
With Rollins back in place, the first team scored almost at will during three periods, and even after an entirely new backfield was put in it continued to smash the second up very effectually.
Two in the line and two in the backfield is good," jeered Tim.
With the advantage of the wind no longer hers, Brimfield abandoned the kicking game and used her backfield for all it was worth.
Brimfield got her backfield working then on her twenty yards and St. Clair and Tim tried each side of the blue line and in two downs gained a scant six yards.
Claflin lined up desperately, her forwards digging their toes barely inside their last line, her backfield men skirmishing anxiously about behind it.
Yes, Thomas darling, you've lost two fellows out of the line and two out of the backfield and there's nothing to live for and we'd better poison ourselves off before defeat and disgrace come upon us.
Team-play was more in evidence than in any previous game and the maroon-and-grey backfieldhad performed prodigiously.
Tim Otis had a remarkably good day and was undeniably the best man in the backfield for the home team.
A buzz of excitement went through the crowded stands as the Pomeroy and Grinnell elevens lined up for kick-off and the player numbered "26" in Grinnell's backfield was pointed out to be Mack Carver.
An enthused Medford, having taken a severe battering from Hamilton earlier in the game, now tore into the enemy and made a slicing opening for her backfield star who flashed through and over the line for a touchdown on his first play.
On the first play Yale launched a line-smashing offensive, aiming her backfield men at different points on the Harvard forward wall.
The backfield had been built around him; his experience had been relied upon as a stabilizer for the entire eleven which was comprised mostly of green, untried material.
Taking the ball on her forty-two yard mark, Delmar sent her backfield men galloping through holes which began to yawn open in the Elliott defense.
He saw now that Dizzy Fox, Pomeroy's star backfield man, was bearing rapidly down on him.
The ball went wild with Mack following into Pomeroy's backfieldafter it.
News that their backfield star was due to appear any second proved a tremendous bracer to a beaten team.
A comparatively green line and a green backfield and yet you held Larwood to one touchdown and threatened her goal five different times!
Carmine went in for Marvin, since, with the wind against her, Cherry Valley would not be likely to do much punting and Carmine's backfield unsteadiness would not count.
And besides, and I say this because I know it to be so, there's nothing that takes the starch out of a backfield man who is catching a punt or running it in like knowing that he's going to be tackled hard.
After a dozen plays Brimfield had gained half the distance to the Red's goal without having put her new backfield to the test.
I want to see improvement in the backfield in this half.
When the sound of boot and leather came Clint was past the 'varsity's backfield and, with Turner but a yard or two in advance, was sprinting fast.
Then Morgan's swung her attack against left guard and Churchill was caught napping and the whole backfield swept over him for four yards.
Something told Ira that the pass had gone wrong almost as soon as he had seen it vanish from Crane's hands, and he was tearing back nearly on the heels of the ball before his own backfield had more than sensed the catastrophe.
The line had been slow and had played too high, the backfield had lacked punch and the ends--well, the least said of the ends the better!
Wirt still back and the ball to Wells, and the backfield trailing to the right like a wall, with the runner scurrying along behind it.
Back went her punter and the Parkinson backfield scattered.
After formation drill Willard joined nearly a dozen other backfield candidates and put in a half-hour of punting and catching and running.
You see our backfield was pretty light and the wet field slowed them up.
The coach, while he appeared to be listening attentively enough to Joe Myers' short-breathed remarks as they walked together to the gymnasium, was in reality grimly determining on a backfield shake up when Monday arrived.
Also, her backfield was composed of slim, fast and elusive youths who had a remarkable faculty of slipping out of the opponents' clutches.
Linthicum's diversion had drawn the Lorimer backfield from position, and Willard, having dodged one slow-moving Lorimer forward, found an open field for several yards.
Kenly was developing a stiff line this year, as proved by the last two games she had played, and more weight and aggressiveness in the backfield was sorely needed at Alton.
That game had clearly demonstrated the fact, long suspected, that the Gray-and-Gold backfield was far from the scoring combination it should be.
A plunge at the center, with the whole Banning backfield behind the quarter, who carried, yielded most of two yards.
The difficulty, however, lay in the fact that the backfield man who played up in the line found it hard to perform his temporary duties satisfactorily.
Dixon was living up to the part of the contract forced upon him by Frank and the Wee One, and made no further obstacle for Jimmy when the coach occasionally put him over in the backfield on the First eleven.
Then the men with the chain straightened up, and ran back to the sidelines again while Queen's prepared for a scrimmage, and the Warwick defence backfield scampered backwards as hard as they could go.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backfield" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
