Word: fullback
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...over 40 miles away from Berg’s home in Stamford, Conn., but it’s another connection with the organization that helped make his tryout with the team a reality.“Coach [Sean] Ryan, the ex-running backs coach at Harvard, is now the fullbacks coach for the Giants,” Berg explained. “He expressed interest in me at fullback before the draft.”Ryan, who left the Crimson for New York in February, informed Berg that there probably weren’t enough roster spots to make room...
...approach to the line of scrimmage also fools defenders. Chargers fullback Lorenzo Neal dubs it "slow to, fast through." When Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers gives Tomlinson the ball, he tries to run to the line at about three-quarters speed. "You can't be going full speed," Tomlinson says. "Some guys run too fast and can't stop and make a move. Or they run into their own lineman, and the linemen hate that." The stroll lulls the defense to sleep. Once Tomlinson spots a crease, those thighs power him past unsuspecting tacklers...
...player we’ve had here in my 13 years,” he says.Sherlock’s football career has been a long time in the making. Picking up the game in second grade, he played Pop Warner football with his older brother, who later played fullback for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Once he reached high school, Sherlock switched from trading blocks with his brother to trading them with some of Maine’s top football prospects at Maine Township South High School, where he played no fewer than four positions. “My QB rating...
...misunderstanding, that there was no physical violence.” The incident involving Thomas occurred the night of the Senior Soirée. After the event, Thomas gained entrance to the victim’s unoccupied room by kicking the door down, and was helped to the bed by fullback Michael Lucas ’07, who apparently told witnesses that Thomas was “quite drunk and needed to sleep it off,” according to a police report.Witnesses said that Thomas frequently stayed in the room after drinking.When the victim returned, she came back...
...moods fluctuated between anger and joy, frustration and triumph. But a feeling of melancholy prevailed as I came face to face with the larger tragedy beyond my own: stolen youth. Specialist Hilario Bermanis, 21, had been built like a fullback when he left his home in Micronesia to join the Army. Now he was hunched in a wheelchair, a thick neck and broad shoulders the only reminder of his once muscular body. He had lost his left hand and both legs above the knee to a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad...