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tailback

noun as in running back

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Having won UCLA’s starting tailback job before the end of his freshman season and scoring a touchdown on his first preseason NFL carry, Foster said he also expects early success as a head coach.

Our view of the Bears’ situation does not require much context or many sentences: Simply put, they managed to retain the one player they could not lose: tailback Jaydn Ott.

From our corner of the college football galaxy, Ott stands as the best tailback on his side of the Rockies.

The Trojans lost only two games and finished atop the AP Poll twice in his three years at tailback.

In the fall of 1967, the new USC tailback — a transfer from San Francisco City College — wasn’t quite a star yet.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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