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(American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
the coach put great emphasis on running
the defensive line braced to stop the run
How To Use running play In A Sentence
- On probably 75 percent of its running plays, Ohio State wants to run to the weak side of the offensive line, allowing the tailback to cut back to the strong side.
- He can pull on running plays and screens and get downfield to throw a block.
- Somewhere between the first and last inning of a tight game, a baserunning play is going to decide it.
- He's not quick enough to defeat blocks in the run game to pursue backside running plays and is a liability in coverage.
- It remains in dispute whether the Daily Mail first christened them All Blacks through their original all-black uniform or because of their novel "all-court" style of 15-man running play and the term "all backs" was transposed to "blacks" by a Fleet Street telephonist. How the original All Blacks went down in the annals of history
- They had seen those young gladiators from the rival towns lock horns, and struggle excitedly for supremacy upon the flat gridiron marked stretch of ground, cheering for one or the other side without prejudice, as their fancy chanced to dictate; but that was not like feeling the brunt of a rush, or trying to outgeneral a swiftly running player with the ball, heading for a touchdown. Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums
- the team's running plays worked better than its pass plays
- running plays worked better than pass plays