Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lowenstein was a specialist in precision passing from his tailback spot...
Lowenstein, five ft., eight in. tailback, was drafted after the third game of last season. His playing that year had been hampered by the aftereffects of a leg fracture sustained in spring practice...
...member of the junior varsity squad for three years, the 160-pound. Finney played quarterback when the team worked out of a T-formation, and tailback when it employed a single-wing. In varsity scrimmages he often initiated future varsity opponents...
Payoff Pass. For a while at the outset it appeared that the Southern California Trojans' brilliant Tailback Jimmy Sears (TIME, Nov. 3) might be the goat of the game. A Sears fumble on his own 30-yd. line set up the first scoring play for U.C.L.A.'s Bruins: a 22-yd. field goal. But early in the second period Sears put his team back into the lead with an impromptu play that brought the crowd roaring to its feet. Running interference for teammate Al Carmichael, Sears saw his teammate stopped after a ten-yard gain, yelled...
...Bruins charged back, forcing a safety with a tooth-rattling tackle behind the Trojan goal line. Moments later, fired by star Tailback Paul Cameron, U.C.L.A. struck again, this time with a touchdown that left Southern California trailing at halftime...