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This is a list of players who have appeared in at least one regular season or postseason game in the National Football League (NFL) or American Football League (AFL) for the New England Patriots franchise. This list is accurate through the end of the 2023 NFL season.
Van Buren is a member of the NFL 1940s All-Decade Team, the NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team and the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team. Considered one of the greatest players in Eagles franchise history, his number 15 jersey is retired by the team, and he is enshrined in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame and the Philadelphia Sports Hall ...
The Sydney Morning Herald wrote, "he was described by rugby and rugby league authorities as the 'best' halfback of all time. No one possessed better all round ability. His service from the scrum was the speediest of any halfback since the coming of district football." [11] In 2005, McKivat was admitted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of ...
Halfback Ronnie Brown throwing out of the Wildcat formation. On rare occasions, and more often in the early days of the sport, a halfback is asked to throw the ball when executing a halfback option. [14] [15] This play is generally referred to as a halfback pass, regardless if the player throwing the football is a tailback or fullback. This ...
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If a team uses a Wildcat formation, often the halfback—instead of the quarterback—is the one who directly receives the snap. As a trick play, running backs are occasionally used to pass the ball on a halfback option play or halfback pass. The difference between halfback and tailback is the position of the player in the team's offensive ...
It was seen that the players outside scrimmage (the "pack", i.e. the forwards) were not limited to a defensive role, the tends and half-tends were renamed "back" and "half back" positions. As the game advanced, backs positioned at different depths (i.e. distances behind the forwards) were further differentiated into separate positions.
Peter Maxwell John Sterling OAM (born 16 June 1960), nicknamed Sterlo, is an Australian former rugby league commentator, television personality and player. He was one of the all-time great halfbacks and a major contributor to Parramatta Eels' dominance of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership in the 1980s.