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backfield

/bak-feeld/US // ˈbækˌfild //UK // (ˈbækˌfiːld) //

后场,内后场,後場,阵地

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Football.

    • : the members of the team who, on offense, are stationed behind the linemen and, on defense, behind the linebackers.
    • : their positions considered as a unit.
    • : the area where the backs play.

Examples

  • He scurried for yardage and scrambled deep into his own backfield to keep plays alive, but the Buccaneers battered and chased him all night.

  • He added 49 catches for 344 yards and three touchdowns out of the backfield.

  • That has forced the Ravens to line up Ricard at multiple positions — in the backfield and at the Y-tight end spot, which is an in-line blocking position next to an offensive tackle.

  • He caught a five-yarder that he carted inside the left pylon after a nifty plot in which he edged toward the backfield early in the play, then floated quickly out to the left to field Jones’s flip.

  • Running back David Montgomery was in the backfield and took a direct snap, then handed the ball to wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson on an apparent end-around.

  • A hulking defender breaks into the backfield and takes him down with a vicious clothesline tackle.

  • After a dozen plays Brimfield had gained half the distance to the Red's goal without having put her new backfield to the test.

  • A plunge at the center, with the whole Banning backfield behind the quarter, who carried, yielded most of two yards.

  • With McNutt in there, thats a mighty pretty backfield, and Kenlys going to know it three weeks from tomorrow!

  • Years ago, a winter came on to stay before the corn was all in—a patch of corn on a remote backfield of Jack Miner's farm.

  • Tim Otis had a remarkably good day and was undeniably the best man in the backfield for the home team.