Fullback

positions on offense, defense, and special teams. There are eight offensive positions. First is a quarterback (QB) who throws the ball or hands off the ball. Second is a halfback or a tailback who runs the ball. Another offensive position is the fullback who is a lead blocker for the running back. Wide receiver’s job is to catch the ball and there are usually two…

in an athletic family, but now could be considered the best running back in the NFL, leading the NFL in most yards per carry after contact. Thanks to his offensive line, Zeke is just pure talent on the football field, if you ask any running back, fullback, quarterback, or anybody behind the offensive line before a play, they would tell you that the play would not ever succeed without those lineman protecting them. Zeke admits that that statement is true, and you could put anybody behind the…

Twenty years ago, the Sonora Wildcats fielded the most successful football team the school had ever produced. They were perfect. They finished the 1995 season 13-0, with a Sac-Joaquin Section Division III Championship victory over the three-time defending champions, the Del Oro Golden Eagles. The dream season didn't have a definitive starter to begin the season. Head coach Gary Smith had a three-way battle for the starting signal caller, and he was unsure if Derik Rickson, Joe Barton, or senior…

Australia seems to be blessed for producing beautiful films about real life situations fraught with meaning and mystery. The movies “Puberty Blues” and “The Year my voice broke” are of no exception. The landscape seems so realistic on the screen, and the sense of Australia's isolation does as well. The subject matter and thematic thrust of Puberty Blues is the girls’ inceptive desperation to hook into the “in-crowd”, but with a strong feminist kick. Sixteen-year-olds, Debbie Vickers and Sue…

From seeing today’s college football league where African American athletes make up more than half players in the league. Throughout the twentieth century there were many struggles for the player who endured physical injuries, segregation and success. It was hard to see the great struggle the African American’s player when through to just become part of the college football team. In the early 1880’s it was difficult for African American athletes to join non integrated schools. Since the Jim…

Cleveland Browns where he had an outstanding 9 year career. In his 9 year career he had over 1,000 yards a season for 8 years. He was a pro bowler 9 years straight and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971. Jim Brown set the standard for all NFL fullbacks to this day. Jim Brown was one of the best American Football players ever. He was born in 1936 on St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia. Swinton Brown who was a professional boxer and father to Jim Brown left the family when he was…

Some say American Football is the best sport in the world, read on to find why. American Football grew out from sports such as rugby and soccer and became popular on American college campuses around the late 1800s. Today, the most watched television in the united states the superbowl. The NFL has an annual revenue of $9 billion, with a profit of $1 billion dollars. In 1962 CBS paid $4.65 million in 1962 for the first exclusive rights to broadcast NFL games besides the NFL championship. American…

comes easy and if you really want to accomplish something and be good at it, you must work. In 2012 when I was about ten years old, I remember going to my cousin Jacob’s football game. He played here at Cesar Chavez, he was number 36 and played fullback and linebacker. At the start of the third quarter they were kicking off to Millennium, which was one biggest games of the year. They kicked the ball; my cousin was flying down the field hunting for the ball carrier, Jacob laid a huge hit on the…

Tryouts had been on a Saturday Lexi and Shimmer had gone with him. Monday evening before their first class Luc went to the locker room to check the coach’s board to see if he made the team. Not only had he make the team he was first string offense fullback. And practice was every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, before his evening classes, with games on Saturdays. Being true to their word their parents made Lexi and/or Shimmer attend all practice sessions. At first Lexi complained, but after…

Back in the early 2000s There was a popular show about a high school football coach and the players that he coaches. This show highlighted the daily lives of the students and the the progression of the characters as they go through their years at Dillon High. Many of the characters seen on the show seem to be representative of much of the students and their characteristics that are present in high school today. This show can help the viewer see a glimpse of some of they people they may see in…