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middle wing Obsolescent 
in Canadian rugby-football, a position between the inside and the outside wing on each side of the line, now usually called a tackle; also the player functioning in one of the two middle-wing positions.
- 1958 A plunging middle wing, now known as a tackle, was handed the ball by a halfback or acted as a decoy with an end run in motion.
- 1962 . . . his father . . . was a tackle or middle wing when he made his ORFU [Ontario Rugby-Football Union] junior debut with Toronto YMCA in 1918.
- 1958 A plunging middle wing, now known as a tackle, was handed the ball by a halfback or acted as a decoy with an end run in motion.