One was the fullback with the ball clutched desperately under him, but a full yard from the line, and the other was the Kenwood centre.
Instead, it was borne straight through centre by the husky fullbackfor a good seven yards, and when the dust of battle had settled Conlon and Brackett were on their faces.
In this game, Channing came through to me in the fullback position and in tackling him I received a scalp wound which did not, however, necessitate my removal from the game.
Crowther reached down and plucked three blades of grass and the halfbacks and the fullback each drew one with the understanding that the one drawing the shortest blade could carry the ball.
This big, determined, husky offensive fullback and defensive end, when he wasn't butting his head into our impregnable line, was smashing an interference that nearly killed him in every other play.
As fullback he outplayed every fullback opposed to him and stands in the judgment of all observers second only to Brooke of Pennsylvania.
Finally I reached Holden, who played thefullback position while on the defensive, and had him to pass in order to get a touchdown.
Perry Hale, who played fullback my sophomore year, was a great interferer.
As I looked around from my position to see that the defensive formation was right, I recall how small Arthur Poe looked there in the fullback position.
On account of his kicking and plunging ability he was moved tofullback in his second year.
In 1898, when he went to Bucknell, he was immediately put at fullback and played there three years.
Fellow team-mates tore into the advancing runners and the big fullback was downed on the thirty-five yard line after a brilliant opening run.
Barley tackled Drake but the big fullback shook him off and started into an open field with only Billings between him and the Trumbull goal, seventy some yards away.
The first team lined up for scrimmage with Rudolph in the fullback position.
The name "Billings" rang from one end of the field to the other, with the substitute fullback being lifted to his feet and pummeled by his team-mates who were crazy with joy .
Blackwell, fullback on the regulars for two seasons, had broken through the line and was away for an open field run.
Rudolph, the last line of defense, came dashing in and threw himself at the Canton fullback as he crossed the goal line.
Because Billings appeared to be about his physical equal, Coach Little motioned him to the fullback position.
When Judd was notified that he was to take the fullback position on the second team he was totally unnerved by the shock.
After a week he was suddenly returned to his old position, and as suddenly redrafted to fullback when another game had displayed the inadequacy of the regular.
Bangs can fill in at end, but we've got to get a fullback that can catch punts, and with nerve enough to get off his kicks in the face of that Princeton line.
It's awful to think I'm the weak spot, that if they only had a decent fullback there would be a chance.
Fullback Ned Turner went through for two yards to Hamilton's five yard mark.
For a pulsating moment Elliott University's starfullback stood facing the great John Brown, acknowledged dean of all football coaches,--facing him as though he had not heard aright.
The former Elliott fullback stepped through the doorway and pushed the door shut after him, nervously.
But Pomeroy rose up to turn fullback Steve Hilliard back at the line of scrimmage.
The former Elliott fullback did not attempt a verbal reply.
Then the ball was snapped to Elliott's star fullback and Mooney--every nerve pulsating with the desire to give his all--fumbled.
There was now but the scrub fullback between Tom and the opposite goal line, though it was some distance away.
He did not gain much, and then the fullback was allowed to try.
If Sam disposes of him I will make a touchdown," mused Tom, and then Sam and the fullback came together.
But Dick Prescott, with Cadet Greg Holmes almost at his side, was charging across the lower field, past one of the halfbacks, and with only fullback really in their way.
Dick had only to shake off a halfback and thefullback and he was over the goal line, holding down the ball.
Tottenville's fullback was now the sole hope of the home team.
He saw that while Dick was not yet over the goal line, only the fullback was in the way and the fullback was no match for Dick in the matter of speed.
One quivering instant---then Wadleigh and Hudson bumped that fullback so hard that he went down, Dick wriggling safely away and bounding toward Filmore's goal.
I'm hot on the trail of a fullback that will make Ted Coy at his coyest look like the paralyzed inmate of an old man's home.
The fullback was in splendid fettle; the week at the Springs had done him a world of good.
Later, the fullback took Diemann's course in Psychology, and to the elder man's gratification, developed a passion for the subject.
The fullback falls across the line, the ball gripped in his convulsive hold, just as the linesman's whistle blows.
The rest of them knew how Blake's death had broken him up, but that was no reason, Lyman said, why he need keep nagging the new fullback about Fred.
Barely a week ago he had stood on the practice field at the University, following Blake's splendid play and listening to the shouting of the crowded bleachers, who idolized their great fullback with the absolute idolatry of a college crowd.
The substitute fullbackhad been playing hard ball.
For the star fullback had possessed the football instinct.
Between him and the dead fullback there had been such companionship as comes now and then to an instructor under thirty and a man nearing the end of his college course.
Now Thanksgiving had come, and the substitute fullback had never felt better in his life.
The quarterback andfullback had sought to stem the tide, but in the general melting away of the defence had been able to do but little.
The fullback was a new recruit who weighed close to two hundred pounds, and despite his weight was said to be as fast as greased lightning.
That fullback of yours is a peach," broke in Hadley.
The Army had the ball and the fullback punted it to the center of the field.
He shone in football as the fastest and cleverest fullback that the school had known for years, and he had well earned his position as captain and pitcher of the baseball team.
Oh, I've played left end and right tackle at different times, but I've had more experience at fullback than anywhere else.
Bost had been working Ole at fullback all evening.
If you've never chased an escaping fullback in one of those pioneer automobiles you've got something coming.
He was the wonder fullback of those times, and at the end of three years there wasn't a college anywhere that didn't have Ole's hoofmarks all over its pride.
Even a demon fullback has to have one or two limbs working in order to accomplish anything.
And while the fullback bore the ominous name of Budge, it was apparent from his bulky frame that this was just about the last thing he might be expected to do, for he looked as though a mountain would not move him.
Jack by now had recognized the boy as Big Bob Jeffries, the heavy- hitting outfielder of the Chester baseball team, and who was admitted as standing a first-rate chance to be made the sturdy fullback of the new eleven in football.
He had been chiefly concerned about Big Bob; but this last little interview with the fullback gave him renewed confidence.
Willets Bennett Haldy Quarterback Lighthart Halfback Halfback Collins Trowbridge Fullback Budge Of course, as the sides faced each other the left end of Chester, Jones, found himself confronting the right end of Marshall, Haldy.
Jack was grimly determined that he would not let go his hold on the big fullback until the last gasp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fullback" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
