Mount Millard tried two rushes that added four yards more to her possession and then, amidst a deep silence, sent her left halfback to kicking position for the third consecutive time.
Two linemen used their hands, which on the offense is illegal, and made a hole through which the Harvard halfback passed and crossed the line for a touchdown amid tremendous cheers from the Harvard contingent.
Shep Homans, his fullback, took in the impending catastrophe at a glance and dashed forward, laid the halfback low with a sharp tackle, thereby preventing a safety.
He only weighed about 138 pounds, but for all the time he played on the scrub he played halfback and no one ever saw him hesitate to make every inch that he could, even though he knew he had to suffer for it.
With a head-gear, especially made for him, Dana settled down in his regular position, ready for the charge, anticipating the oncoming Yale halfback and throbbing with eagerness to tackle the man with the ball.
The ball was snapped in play and a fleet Penn State halfback broke through Lafayette's line, and, armed with the ball, dodged the second barriers and threatened by a dashing sprint to score in the extreme corner of the field.
Channing, this nervy little 138-pounder, played left halfback on the scrub.
When I playedhalfback I remember my signals were my order relating to the foremast.
As a freshman I was playing halfback on the second Varsity one afternoon when a sudden blow knocked me unconscious while the play was at one end of the field.
To old Princeton graduates, however, McNair is known best as a great football player who was halfback on the varsity three years and was regarded as a phenomenal dodger, runner and kicker.
The game was over, the Juniors winners in one of the closest games of years over the Seniors, who lost because of the absence of their halfback who sat translating Latin, failing his class in their need.
Eight seniors and one of them the crack halfback of the senior team, not to be at their own game.
But Chip bore the Freshman halfbackno very deep affection.
Thinking that the going was too hard through the line, he sent his fleetest halfbackon a delayed pass out around right end.
Frank escorted Jimmy to the gymnasium that afternoon, where the teams were to dress for the fray, and the Freshman halfback was in a fever of excitement.
Once he had the joy of pushing the Barrows' halfback through the hole he came for at a loss of a yard.
And how about the Freshman halfback who had been so unkindly thrown out of the game, and who sat watching this second half going against the Queen's School eleven?
Of course you are not, fortunately, but you're the quarter, and as such you can make or break a halfbackthat is trying for a place on the team.
Well, he is a candidate for halfback on the school eleven, and in spite of his being a Freshman, I think he'll make it.
But for this fall at least I'll do most of my football work on the bleachers, and giving the right halfback of the eleven friendly advice.
One Tottenville halfback was too far away to make an obstructing dash in time.
In dodging the other halfback Dick dashed on as though not seeing the fellow.
Right with you," the ex-halfback replied, hurrying toward the hall.
Cass Gordon--the man, the ex-halfback whose bulk was beginning to get out of hand, but whose inherent aggressive grace had not yet deserted him.
As Dave shot forward, Jetson, too, smashed over the line, blocking the halfback who got in his way.
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.
With the halfback down flat and holding the oval, and the kicker with one eye on the ball and the other on the tacklers just breaking through it is not the easiest thing in the world to do.
Well, Jack Winters was a good guesser, for just as he decided it fell to the Harmony halfback to make the attempt.
Fast upon the heels of the flying halfback two Marshall players came dashing; but they might as well have hoped to catch the wind in a sixty-mile gale as overtake that speedy runner.
As the halfback planted himself for the grapple, Dave suddenly dropped through that opponent's grip and went to the ground.
At least, the Rustlers' halfback thought he had Darrin blocked.
It was up to the Rustlers' halfback now, and that bulky young midshipman leaped to the fray, cleverly barring the way.
We had been satisfied to push some awkward halfback over the line once, and then hold on to the enemy so tight he couldn't run; and we started out that year in the same old way.
Any school that could scare up a good rangy halfback and a line that could hold sheep could get up an adding festival at our expense any time.
A Kiowa halfback caught it and started up the field.
But no halfback was ever so elusive as this infernal college.
Right at him came Birdie Andrews, hat in hand, and when the halfback arrived he bowed and asked him to stop.
Medford's star halfback stopped in his tracks and let his two friends continue on their way, not realizing that he was anywhere near them.
Just why this climax to a Medford season should have such a nervous effect upon her star halfback was as difficult to determine as why some folks got short of breath in the proximity of a cat.
Clothes were fairly thrown at Medford's star halfback and willing hands helped strip him while other willing hands, almost too willing, fairly jerked on his moleskins.
Tackler and interferer went down in a thudding pile as Grinnell's star halfback crossed Pomeroy's goal line and triumphantly touched the ball down.
Phil and Milt were the first wild-eyed rooters to reach Medford's star halfback as other supporters swarmed on the field with one idea in mind--to tear down the goal posts.
Thinking the whole thing a fake, the halfback at first hesitated to come in, but Bert kept on parallel to the line of scrimmage until the half dared hesitate no longer, as it looked certain that Bert was bent on a run around the ends.
The reinstated halfback went away with his eyes shining and his heart elate.
He hesitated to come in, therefore, and in the meantime Fred kept on running behind the scrimmage line, until the halfback did not dare to wait any longer, as it seemed to be a dead sure thing that Fred was going to circle the end.
In the meantime, Melvin had had time to get down the field, and Fred turned about swiftly, just as the halfback reached out for him, and sent the ball like a shot to Melvin.
The opposing halfback thought that this was a fake to draw in the end.
Dick had only to shake off a halfback and the fullback and he was over the goal line, holding down the ball.
Lehigh's halfback caught Prescott this time---caught him fair and full, and Prescott went down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halfback" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
