DCHP-3

middle wing

Obsolescent
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Canadian rugby-football, a position between the inside and the outside wing on each side of the line, now usually called a tackle; also the player functioning in one of the two middle-wing positions.

Quotations

1958
A plunging middle wing, now known as a tackle, was handed the ball by a halfback or acted as a decoy with an end run in motion.
1962
. . . his father . . . was a tackle or middle wing when he made his ORFU [Ontario Rugby-Football Union] junior debut with Toronto YMCA in 1918.