Word: tailback
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...Balestracci was ready to elevate his game and deliver a final crushing blow. Punching and tearing at Mathews with the game on the line, he looked as though about to tear the helpless tailback to shreds. Not surprisingly, Mathews caved first...
...don’t really like to look into the past,” freshman tailback Clifton Dawson says. “I think that each game, we go in with a great game plan and with great guys who can make all the plays at each position. And with the games that [junior quarterback] Garrett [Schires] played in [replacing Fitzpatrick], he worked very hard in preparing, and worked very hard at giving us a great chance to win…Ryan brought a lot of things that Garrett may not have, but we still had a great opportunity...
Though Harvard head coach Tim Murphy acknowledges that he recruited Raftery as a tailback out of high school—“He was an outstanding high school running back,” he says—he also maintains that it is a prerogative of many college coaches to focus on top offensive players when recruiting for defense...
...ball’s in his hands all the time it’s a lot easier to judge a potential defensive athlete than it is with someone who’s just playing defense,” Murphy says. “Certainly we recruited him as a tailback, but like every secondary in America, most of them are ex-tailbacks. You recruit as many good tailbacks as you can and try to get them on the field...
...high school coach told me he thought I could play tailback at an Ivy League school but that I’d probably have to play cornerback at another Division I school,” says Butler. “But I really wanted to play tailback, and the coaches at Harvard told me they thought I could play tailback here. So it made my decision pretty easy after I had a great visit...