Word: halfback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missed field goal, the Crimson marched as far as the Penn 31 before punting. But one Quaker thought Steinberg was trying a field goal, not a punt, and stayed on the field; Penn lost the ball and 15 yards for too many men. Four plays and 16 yards later, halfback Mark Vignali carried a pitch from quarterback Greg Gizzi across the goal line...
...Staleys. By 1922 Halas had moved the team to Chicago, renamed it the Bears, and suggested that the fledgling 18-team league he played in be rechristened the National Football League. Three years later, Halas and the N.F.L. hit the big time when he signed the famed Galloping Ghost, Halfback Red Grange, who started drawing sellout crowds five days after his last college game. Tightfisted (at first he collected the tickets himself) and tough-minded (he ran up a 73-0 victory to take the 1940 league title from the Washington Redskins), "Papa Bear" Halas developed an ongoing phalanx...
Meanwhile, South halfback and Captain Andy Stoebner scored two touchdowns to lead his troops to a come-from-behind, 22-12 triumph over neighboring Currier House...
...beginning it was clear that Lowell was no pushover. The Bellboys held firmly on defense; after a defensive pass interference call in the end zone put the ball on the Currier two in the second quarter, Lowell pushed across the first score of the game in the second quarter. Halfback Carlos Rodriguez powered over for the touchdown and teammate Mark Moreland added the two-point conversion, and Lowell led at halftime...
...Halfback Derrick Harmon scored four touchdowns and gained 210 yards on 25 carries at Ithaca, N.Y. to make Yale the only remaining winless team in the Ivies...