Definitions
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- noun American football A small
lightweight running back valued forspeed rather thanpower .
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Examples
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"They have two tailbacks, both kind of scatback types, and they're both very good."
thetowntalk.com - 2009
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As God is my witness, Dick Cheney was a 160-pound scatback on the football team.
Buckley, If Not God, Returns to Yale Neal B. Freeman 2011
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Sophomore scatback Arby Fields, the team's top rusher with 302 yards and five touchdowns, split his time between spring practices and his duties as Northwestern's starting center fielder.
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Exclamation points were added with trades that landed power runner Len Dale White, scatback Leon Washington and defensive tackle Kevin Vickerson.
NFL draft grades: Raiders finally have a reason to believe 2010
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Sophomore scatback Arby Fields, the team's top rusher with 302 yards and five touchdowns, split his time between spring practices and his duties as Northwestern's starting center fielder.
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The 5-foot-10, 165-pound Terrell, who most likely projects as a scatback, receiver or defensive back in college, carried 275 times for 2,070 yards and 30 touchdowns and threw for 1,419 yards and 15 TDs for Osbourn 12-1 last fall.
Osbourn's Dominique Terrell Ponders Miami, U.Va., WVU Preston Williams 2011
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Notes: Can't you just see this little scatback scoring 10 TDs?
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The next time they touched the ball, the Gators let Leak, Tebow and scatback Percy Harvin all take direct snaps from center.
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A 5-7 scatback, Griffin had little trouble tearing through the
USATODAY.com 2003
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With scatback Danny Woodhead hobbled, rookie Shane Vereen he showed good vision and deceptive speed at Cal could get his chance to join the party.
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