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)

[edit] Sexism

I've tried my hardest to explain the sexism, maybe there's some other way?100110100 09:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)