Fullback was once a full participant in an NFL offense.
They were players who could run, catch and block. The halfbacks in a backfield represented the speed and the fullbacks the power.
Jim Brown was the prototype NFL fullback. He won eight rushing titles in his nine-year career with the Cleveland Browns. The one year he missed, 1962, Green Bay fullback Jim Taylor claimed the crown. Both Brown and Taylor now have busts in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Alan “The Horse” Ameche and Rick Casares won NFL rushing titles in the 1950s as fullbacks. Cookie Gilchrist and Jim Nance won a pair of AFL rushing crowns apiece, then Larry Csonka emerged as the battering ram fullback for the two-time Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins in the early 1970s.
teacher. and she was there have opening night and she hugged judith and said you are my mom. and what a lot of people may not know was that vince lombardi was a coach who went to the washington redskins because he could get an ownership, part of the team, but he was also active in civil rights and helping the black athlete move forward in the nfl. big dave robertson has been to a number of the rehearsals and talk backs. it was incredible what coach lombardi did for the black athletes. two years before lionel aldridge married a white woman, cookie gilchrist was blacklisted from the nfl. he had to go to the afl. lombardi wanted an invitation to the wedding.