Talk:History of American football positions

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While this is an interesting article (if a bit verbose), it does not appear to be only or specifically about football position names. Perhaps it should be renamed (moved to) the history of football position names or the evolution of football positions and terminology? Bonanzajellydog 16:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

I added stuff to match more what this page should have, according to its title. I agree that the rest should probably be moved to a different page. 69.217.59.140 00:53, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

DH
In the defensive diagrams, what is DH? The text doesn't reference it and I don't know enough about Canadian football to fix it. -- B 20:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

its a Defensive Halfback.. similar to a nickel or dimeback in theory.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.167.178 (talk) 05:41, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Rugby
This section is pretty good, in fact I'm going to copy some of it for the Rugby union positions article. However I'm not so sure that all of it is 100% accurate or at least not misleading.

Halfback - in the Northern Hemipshere, there are two halfbacks: scrumhalf and flyhalf (also known as outside half). AFAIK flyhalf is short for "flying halfback" and isn't connected to being "fly away" but related to the player taking the ball "on the fly" i.e. whilst in motion. In the Southern Hemisphere halfback refers only to the scrumhalf.

Three quarters backs - this is somewhat archaic and would only be used in the Northern Hemisphere, usually 3/4s backs are simply called centres (nothing like an American football "center") and wings (like a wide receiver). Wing three quarter and centre three quarter are virtually obsolete.

Five eighths - A purely Southern Hemisphere term for "flyhalf".

Another issue is that Quarterback argues that the term "Quarterback" is a Scottish term and rugby uses Anglo-Irish nomenclature. This is the opposite of this article which says that Quarterback is an Irish term and rugby uses Anglo-Scottish nomenclature. Anybody know which version is correct.GordyB 16:09, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Assessment comment
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Introduction problem
Hello, Rebestalic here.

I think the introduction slightly contradicts itself--first, it says that american football has "slowly evolved over time", and then it says that it has changed greatly. Shouldn't this be adhered to?

Thank you, Rebestalic (talk) 06:19, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The two aren't mutually exclusive. Decade-by-decade, American football changed very little. The game was mostly the same in 1890 as it was in 1880, 1940 as it was in 1930, 1990 as it was in 1980, etc. But the 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game and Super Bowl LII would be nearly unrecognizable as being the same sport. Lizard  (talk) 01:10, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * Great bulk of players .webp