Then our quarterback sent a play through between guard and tackle.
Dolan and Breittmann, and Berty Jones, who was our quarterback and the only one in the crowd besides Dolan who had met Mr. Rooney, looked at each other and kind of grinned.
Here is the common-sense way in which an all-American quarterback performs his duties.
This quarterback has analyzed the conditions of his problems, he has figured out what he is up against; that is to say, he has estimated the situation.
I couldn't let you go back to Russia without shaking hands with the greatestquarterback America ever produced.
Trying to make folks forget the nerviest quarterback that ever pranced down the turf with eleven men after him?
Only the Yale quarterback had a chance for the tackle, and he couldn't stop George in that distance.
McCabe, who had played quarterback for three years on the second and considered this one of the moments in his football career.
And yet I think that if we had heard our little quarterback give his order at six twenty-seven on that misty morning there would have been something in his voice when he said "fire" which would have betrayed him to us.
Sometimes, indeed, the shrapnel lays a finger on him, but he whirls away out of its grip like a quarterback in a broken field.
He made them quick and snappy like a football signal and he looked exactly like a quarterback with the tin hat on his head which might have been a leather head guard.
I was afraid of that," quarterback Rigsbee mumbled.
Sober Watkins, quarterback of the Scrubs, with a glance toward the Varsity training table nearby and star half-back Speed Bartlett, toying with his meal.
The latest Harvard hero was lacing a shoe when the former All-American quarterback came upon him.
The slender Harvard quarterback was being pressed from front and back.
Mixing line plays, end runs and lateral passes, with Speed Bartlett being given the ball three-fourths of the time, quarterback Pete Slade drove his warriors down to Hamilton's twenty yard mark with two minutes remaining.
The Harvard quarterback held out his arm with a slight gesture of impatience.
No--we'd better stick to the plays that have been given us," replied quarterback Alf Rigsbee.
The Harvard quarterback shot a glance about the locker room, relieved to see that no one appeared to be noticing them.
Frank, grabbing the outraged quarterback by the arm as Mack accepted the blazing denunciation with clenched fists, controlling himself with difficulty.
You see--well--I'm quarterbackof the football team.
The ball sailed far down the field and the Navy | |quarterback had to run back a few yards to get under| |it.
The cadet | |quarterback flashed back thirty yards before he was | |driven out of bounds and brought to earth.
The little Boy Scout, Bunny Payton, who asquarterback was the most important cog in the machine, wasn't "delivering.
It was a new play they had learned that past week, a double pass, with thequarterback eventually taking the ball.
Before Buck reached him, the quarterback was on his feet again, dinning his eternal, "Line up!
Even as Buck was falling, the quarterback started racing down the field toward his goal.
It seemed to the little quarterback that the fellows had gone suddenly insane.
This last week has been a hard one for all of us, I guess, but I think the one who's felt the hurts most is Quarterback Bunny Payton.
The quarterback and fullback had sought to stem the tide, but in the general melting away of the defence had been able to do but little.
You haven't any kick coming on your center and quarterback either," broke in Allen.
In addition they had a powerful set of guards and tackles, and it was universally acknowledged that their quarterback was one that it would be hard to match on any of the big teams.
The player who had it fumbled in his eagerness to advance it, and the 'Varsity quarterback pounced on it like a hawk.
Johnny Mack tells a story that illustrates this fact: "There was a quarterback working in the game one day.
On this great team were Neil Snow, and the remarkable quarterback Boss Weeks.
These two Lehigh stars have always been my football heroes, and it was a happy day for me when I played quarterback on the Yale team and these two men acted as officials that day.
As I had not played before, I did not know enough to be afraid of him, so when the ball was put in play I simply charged forward at the quarterback and was able to spoil a good many of his plays.
A few years ago I had occasion to remove a player from a game for a foul play," says Joe, "and in a second the quarterback was telling me of my mistake.
I don't think there was ever a better quarterback than Wyllys D.
I asked him if he thought the quarterback was going right.
Johnnie Barnes, an ex-Lawrenceville boy, now quarterback on the Andover team, seemed fairly inspired as he urged his team on.
He played quarterback and captained the Brown team in '96.
One of the most thrilling stories of a man who was game, though handicapped, is told by Morris Ely, quarterback for Yale, 1898.
He made the team his first year, playing quarterback on the eleven which was coached by Pop Warner and which won the Southern championship.
It started out like a quarterbackrun around left end.
In a last desperate effort, the Bliss quarterback called a trick play.
You had a chance, a bare chance to get in at quarterback for a part of the game anyway, in spite of your bad start, and now you are dished, sure as shooting.
The quarterback position was so well filled that he despaired of winning his way there and the coaches, evidently of the same opinion, kept him where he had played on the Freshman team.
Away back in his head was the hope that he might still win out in the race for the quarterback position.
Frank had been established as quarterback on the second team on the Monday following the Pawling game, and was making good there.
Hopkins, quarterback for Chester, scored a touchdown in this period that carried the crowd off its feet with excitement, it was so cleverly done.
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.
It took quarterback and one of the halfbacks of the Army to put the runner down some eight yards further on.
It wasn't his fumble, and you know that as well as any one," and Freshman though he was, Frank looked the quarterback of the eleven straight in the eye.
Frank felt that he had been at Queen's too short a time to be taking the high hand with the quarterback of the eleven, and he was uncertain as to how it would affect his standing in the school.
Come on, Frank, it's no use, the quarterback has a severe case of astigmatism.
Good work, Freshman," said the coach, but the quarterback turned and walked up the field sulkily.
But he knew that was exactly what the Harvard quarterback intended to prevent.
I fancy he knows that it’s as much as I can do to tell the difference between a quarterback and a goal post.
The quarterback stooped, picked up the ball, and dexterously passed it as the formation thundered down upon him.
The quarterback took his position near the ball and the rest of the team gathered some twenty yards away.
He seemed to leap through ten feet of air, straight over the quarterback's head and land four feet from the goal with the quarterback in his grip, while a Sunrise halfback out beyond him was lying on the lost ball.
The last defense was thrown headlong, and the field was wide open for the run; and the quarterback was running for the honor of his team, his school, his undying fame in the college world.
You knew as much about football as any fellow in this town when you appeared here, and that’s how you happened to get on the team as quarterback last year.
Another five minutes passing, and the quarterback failing to arrive, Stone decided to send out for him.
In the second period of rest the Oakdale captain drew the quarterback apart from the others and talked to him with great earnestness.
Czik was the quarterback all through college of some college in New Jersey, and had a lot of talent.
He played tackle or end, you know, never fullback, quarterback or anything like that, you know.
There came a punt and the Harvard quarterback raced down the field.
Take a football quarterback and you have the perfect prototype of the general in charge of operations.
The tackle which stopped thequarterback on the fourteen-yard line had knocked him out.
How could anybody dream of making a singer out of Pat when he might be a quarterback and after his own playing was done go on living the thing over as he watched the games year after year.
If the quarterbackcould hear the graduates' do-or-die backing of their team at this juncture he would trot into the locker building then and there.
For there were some who hated Sam cordially, and as he was the quarterback of the team there were internal dissensions, and such ragged playing, in consequence, that Elmwood lost many games she should have won.
And it was well that he did, for the quarterbackthrew the ball short.
