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Cdn Football

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a player whose position is variable behind the line of scrimmage.

Quotations

1895

. . . the wings which are seven in number correspond to the American guards, tackles and ends and the extra man is called a flying wing.

1958

Topflight U.S. players quickly adapt to the roomier field (110 yds. between goal lines), a fifth man (called a flying wing) in the backfield, the point-scoring (one point) "rouge."

1964

Again in the same article Mr. Rodden says that "in 1907 Rev. Father Stanton of the University of Ottawa . . . introduced the flying wing."