crackback

Maybe they would see a new kind of crackback block, brushback pitch, cheap foul.

An illegal crackback and cut block are called during other times when a block is made below the waist.

Irving Fryar, a receiver for the Dolphins, was trying to bring him down with a crackback block.

The zone in which crackback blocks are prohibited is extended from 3 yards on either side of the line of scrimmage to 5.

An example of this is the illegal "crackback block", when a blocker positioned wide blocks back towards where the ball was snapped.

There was a head-butt and a crackback block, a hit out of bounds and a hit after a play.

The Giants say the 49ers have tried to injure Lawrence Taylor with crackback blocks.

Later, said Hill, Rice put a crackback block on Jones, a Giants linebacker.

The crackback block was outlawed.

During a preseason game against the Minnesota Vikings on August 31, 2009, Wilson fell victim to an illegal "crackback" block thrown by Brett Favre.

The Nixonian credos of competition and desire and team loyalty can be extended from the arena to the political and business world, brushback pitches and crackback blocks into cover-ups and price fixing.

Crackback is set within the realities of high school football and Box Out perceptively follows a sophomore as he is called up to play varsity basketball, recognizing the myriad of decisions teens face every day.

He is best known for his books on basketball, Strong to the Hoop, Around the World, and Box Out, as well as Night Driving and his coming-of-age novel about sports and decisions, Crackback.

Allen took a team called the Deadskins to the Super Bowl with a combination of shrewd trades (often with players he did not own), questionable plays (the "crackback," a legal, though sometimes crippling, block) and a climate of paranoia that included awesome security against plays being leaked by the press.

As the team's player representative, he received a letter from the union Tuesday that discussed its concern that subpar officiating could affect the safety of players because officials who are not used to the speed of N.F.L. games may miss plays - like crackback blocks and illegal use of the helmet - that could lead to injury.