The position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team

Usage examples of quarterback.

When she had been a teenager, she and the rest of the family had always thought of Bret as simply the finest quarterback in the history of Southern college football, but Jess had long since dismissed that as family prejudice.

By the time he was a sophomore in high school, Billy was the quarterback on the football team and the high scorer on the basketball team.

He had been right halfback in the same backfield at Waterford High where I had played fullback, Mike Hess had been the left half, and Capers Middleton had called signals at quarterback.

I bet Kevin Peterson even gets free coffee at the local doughnut shop on the square just because people remember him from his days as a Dixieland High School quarterback.

He had to blink and clear his head to realize that Natick High had the ball, that it had been their quarterback to throw that beauty of a pass, and their receiver to catch it.

Zurich -- he would have a round of farewell beers with Robbie and Shula before catching the plane for Boston, where he would open the 1976 season as quarterback for the Bulls.

At the center of the circle was Tom Cook Clark, an assistant coach, an expert on quarterbacking, known as a scholarly man because he smoked a pipe and did not use profanity.

We went over for a joint conference with Tom Cook Clark and his three quarterbacks, Garland Hobbs, Terry Madden and Byrd Whiteside.

Then the receivers and backs ran simple pass patterns as the quarterbacks took turns throwing.

Creed spoke slowly and evenly, looking from Hobbs to Taft to me, ignoring the other quarterbacks and running backs gathered behind us.

Those were the days when quarterbacks were more like running backs and you played both sides.

Armorer, and he sidestepped like a quarterback from olden times dodging a rushing defensive lineman, slipping nimbly between trees to the right of the track, out of the line of fire.

The Liberty quarterback departed with his head down, his teammates already beseeching him not to feel sorry but to feel proud of the effort he had made.

It was the greatest, most exciting game Colleen had ever seen, and not only because she was romantically involved with the quarterback.

They were as promised, a spectacular swarm of contraltos and astronauts and quarterbacks and chairpersons of the board.