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NFL Z-Score All-Decade Team: 1960s - Baltimore Sports and Life  Check out our review of the 1950s. ... Four new franchises were born into the NFL in the 60's. ... Of the #1 ranked most above average players in a season according to ... 8. Lenny Moore, RB, Baltimore Colts, 1960  sRBZ: 2.4787  Like Morrison, ... He led the league in receptions (74), far and away in yards (1298, no one...
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Greatest Running Back of All Time: Wisdom of Crowds Recap  Mar 2, 2015 ... Greatest Running Back of All Time: Wisdom of Crowds Recap ... every top 5 list, while no other back made that cut-off on even half of the ballots. ... 10, Adrian Peterson, 3, 1, 5, 8, 4, 4, 1, 3, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1 ..... He led the NFL the most times in: Yds rushing (8), Yds from scrimmage (6) and all-purpose Yds (5).
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Jim Brown - Wikipedia  James Nathaniel Brown (born February 17, 1936) is a former professional American football .... Brown led the league in rushing a record eight times. ... and best average per carry for a running back at 5.22 yards, a mark that still stands. .... most seasons leading league in rushing yards (8), highest career rushing yards per...
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History of the Cleveland Browns - Wikipedia  The history of the Cleveland Browns American football team began in 1944 when taxi-cab ... The team subsequently reached the playoffs three times in the late 1960s, but ... Quarterback Bernie Kosar, who the Browns drafted in 1985, led the team to .... teams numerous times during its four-year existence, but no inter-league...
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List of National Football League rushing champions - Wikipedia  In American football, running is, along with passing, one of the two main methods of advancing the ball down the field. A running play generally occurs when the quarterback hands or tosses the ball backwards to the running back, but other players, such as the quarterback, can run with the ... The most recent rushing champion is Minnesota's Adrian Peterson, who led...
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Calvin Hill - Wikipedia  Calvin G. Hill (born January 2, 1947) is a retired American football player. He played running back in the National Football League for twelve seasons. Hill ran for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, and Cleveland .... They are the parents of retired NBA player Grant Hill. Hill was the 1969 NFL Rookie of the Year.
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The Jerry Rice WWW Pages - Jerry Rice History  In 1995, he claimed NFL career records in receptions and yards, bettering the ... Rice, then 33, set an NFL single-season record with 1,848 receiving yards, while his ... yards in a game (215), most career points (42), most points in a game (18), ... Made a 78-yard TD catch with :42 remaining at N.Y. Giants(9-11) to provide the...
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Archie Griffin - Wikipedia  Archie Mason Griffin (born August 21, 1954) is a former American football running back. Griffin played seven seasons in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals. He is college football's only two-time Heisman Trophy winner. Griffin won four Big Ten Conference titles with the Ohio State Buckeyes and...
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Collectors Universe - Fun Way To Show Collection Football Edition  Dec 23, 2015 ... The runner up Cleveland QB Frank Ryan has only a 90 rating. ... Jim Brown rushed led the league in rushing with 1,446 yards but only scored 7 TDs. ..... 1973 would see the Miami Dolphins win the AFC East with a 12-2 record ... Juice, O.J. Simpson as he ran for a league record 2003 yards on his way to...
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No. 11: Marino re-wrote the NFL passing records - USATODAY.com  Jul 9, 2007 ... When he retired after the 1999 season, he owned or shared 23 NFL passing records, including most touchdown passes, most 300-yard games (63), ... A steal for the Dolphins as the 27th overall pick (and sixth QB) in the 1983 draft, Marino ... Most career TD passes, 420, Most games with four TD passes, 21.
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Walter Payton, RB at NFL.com  1976, Chicago Bears, 14, --, 311, 1,390, 4.5, 60, 13, 15, 149, 9.9, 34, 0, --, -- ... Chicago Bears running back Ka'Deem Carey bounces outside for 24 yards. 00:25.
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Emmitt Smith scores 25th touchdown of season for new NFL single ...  Jan 15, 1996 ... (Dallas Cowboys running back sets new touchdown record in 1995 regular ... Smith recently rushed for his 25th touchdown of the NFL season...
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In The Footsteps Of Legends: A Look At The History Of Dallas ...  Jun 27, 2014 ... Before Smith, Dorsett was "the man" among Dallas running backs. Starting ... In 1994, Tony Dorsett was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Dorsett ... The play eclipsed the NFL record for the longest play from scrimmage. That is a ..... I'll be shocked if Emmitt's rushing record ever gets broken.
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NFL Hall of fame running backs size up MN Vikings' Adrian Peterson  Sep 17, 2016 ... Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson (28) tries to get ... I first saw him as a freshman in college and my first thought was ... When I look at Barry Sanders, he's a guy that motivated me, that ... Peterson could spend much of this season whizzing past hall of famers. ... 8 Tony Dorsett (12,739 yards).
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ESPN.com: Sweetness ran and ran and ran  Payton carried the ball and ran for more yards than any running back in NFL history. ... It's the career record for most yards rushing in the National Football League. For Walter Payton, 16,726 yards not only signify the 9 miles he ran for, they ... he missed only one game in his Hall of Fame career with the Chicago Bears.
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List of most consecutive games with touchdown passes in the ...  Drew Brees holds the NFL record, 54 games, for consecutive games with at least one touchdown pass. He set the record on October 7, 2012, when he surpassed the streak of 47 consecutive games by Johnny Unitas which had stood since December 11, 1960.
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Steelers 2013 Draft - UCLA RB Johnathan Franklin ... - Steelers Depot  Apr 5, 2013 ... His 788 rushing attempts mark the third time a UCLA player ... (8.06 ypc) as a senior, going over 200 yards on the ground in five games. He ... inducted into the National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame ... During the week-long practices in Mobile, Alabama, Franklin quickly ..... Nicknamed Jetski
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Sammy Baugh's 1943 season may be the best by any NFL player ...  Nov 14, 2013 ... 14 against the Lions, he had arguably the greatest single-game performance in football history. ... If it wasn't the greatest individual season in pro football history, ... 14, Baugh fired four touchdown passes, intercepted four passes and got ... Blocking back Ray Hare, according to one accounting, missed only...
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Derrick Alexander (wide receiver) - Wikipedia  Derrick Scott Alexander (born November 6, 1971) is a former American football wide receiver of the National Football League. He was drafted in the first round of the 1994 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns and in 2000 set the Kansas City Chiefs record of 1,391 receiving yards in a single season. ... The Chiefs quarterback that year was his former Michigan teammate, Elvis...
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Ohio State football's Mount Rushmore: Running backs rule for the ...  Jun 14, 2016 ... Ohio Stadium is one of the ancestral homes of college football. ... Eddie George, Halfback (1992-1995): Off the field, a quiet unassuming ... In nine NFL seasons, he ran for more than 10,000 yards before ... Trophy winner, Maxwell Award, 1986 College Football Hall of Fame, No. ... CBS Sports Senior Writer.