White RBs and 100-yard games

I know the "Franchise" made the hall because of his all purpose yards. But the intrinsic worth of Willard's 6500 career yards is probably the equivalent of 10k yards in the current era. Willard has a case to at least be a seniors nominee. I know Chuck Foreman has has lobbying for him and he rushed 1k less yards than Willard did and their playing careers overlapped.
 
I'm pleased to find that one of my favorite players when I was a kid--Bill Brown of the Vikings--had over 11 yards in 1973 against the Lions. He had several other 100 yd games in the 60s.
 
I believe I was at Tiger Stadium for the Detroit Lions 1972 opener against the Giants. Steve Owens ran for over 100 yards that day. How many CF'ers can say they say a white RB run for over 100 yards in person?
 
jaxvid said:
I believe I was at Tiger Stadium for the Detroit Lions 1972 opener against the Giants. Steve Owens ran for over 100 yards that day. How many CF'ers can say they say a white RB run for over 100 yards in person?
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I doubt very many of us could on the pro level for two reasons. 1. Most of us aren't old enough to have been around when it was fairly common.
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2. If some others are like me, we didn't have enough money to go to such a game, in part because it would have required an overnight stay because we lived a long way from the nearest NFL stadium.
 
There have been about 70 games since 1980. I'm guessing there are a few Tampa fans (Alstott) or Bears fans who might have seen Forsey's game. Maybe some Browns fans that have gone to a game this year. Redskins, with Riggens, etc. Not everyone lives in BFE Mississippi
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jaxvid said:
I believe I was at Tiger Stadium for the Detroit Lions 1972 opener against the Giants. Steve Owens ran for over 100 yards that day. How many CF'ers can say they say a white RB run for over 100 yards in person?
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Until the Oilers came to Nashville and became the Titans, I didn't live close to a pro team, and I haven't seen the Titans in person either.

I have seen a white RB gain over 100 yards in person on the college level. Curt Watson ran for over 100 yards for Tennessee against Vanderbilt in 1969 and Mississippi State in 1971. I was in the stands for both games.

How many CFers can say they saw a white RB run for over 100 yards in person for an SEC team? Especially for Tennessee?
 
sport historian said:
How many CFers can say they saw a white RB run for over 100 yards in person for an SEC team? Especially for Tennessee?
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I saw Jacob Hester against Florida in Oct 2007, 106 yards 1 td, but yeah a long drought in the SEC.
one of the things that woke me up as a dwf and led me to this site. He is the reason they won that game, without him, no national championship. But dwf LSU fans don't remember that anymore.
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jaxvid said:
There have been about 70 games since 1980. I'm guessing there are a few Tampa fans (Alstott) or Bears fans who might have seen Forsey's game. Maybe some Browns fans that have gone to a game this year. Redskins, with Riggens, etc. Not everyone lives in BFE Mississippi
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I'm glad you are back, jaxvid. I wasn't sure if it was really you until that post.
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I spent a lot of my growing up years in Louisiana (NW) and Tennessee (pre-Titans) too, and of course more recently I spent 5 football seasons in Utah (500+ miles to Denver). It would have to have been 1985 or up for me to remember it anyway, so that cuts the NFL number down by over half.

As it is, I've seen just one 100+ yard performance by a White college RB in person and that was the only 100 yard game Mike Hague (3rd string at the time) has had for BYU so far. He'll be a Senior next year. It was against UNLV in 2006.



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My dad says we were there when Gill Fenerty rushed for 100 against Minnesota. I don't remember it, but I was young. Still questionable because he gets players/games he took me to confused sometimes. One of the only backs I remember seeing live for the Saints for Ironhead who looked to be about 300 pounds. He said he saw Hokie rush for 113 against the Jets, which i didn't realize was missing from the list.

1983 Hokie Gajan 11 carries 113 yards against the New York Jets. He had a long of 58 yards, 10 ypc.

Running from the fullback spot Hokie has one of the highest ypc for a primary back in a single season.

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MASTER LIST OF 100 YARD GAMES BY WHITE RUNNING BACKS DURING THE CASTE ERA

If y'all know of some others that haven't been listed yet, please post them and
I'll add them to the list. I appreciate all the help!!
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2010-2019: Total of 7 so far
1) Peyton Hillis: 6 (with 1 other in the late 00s)
2) Toby Gerhart: 1



2000-2009:
Total of 8

1) Mike Alstott: 4 (with 3 others in the late 90s)

2) Brock Forsey: 1

3) Peyton Hillis: 1
(with 4 others in the 10s)
4) Brian Leonard: 1

5) Brad Hoover: 1



1990-1999:
Total of 9

1) Mike Alstott: 3 (with 4 others in the early 00s)
2) Merrill Hoge: 1 (with 3 others in the late 80s)

3) Gil Fenerty: 2

4) Brad Muster: 1

5) Tommy Vardell: 1

6) Scott Lockwood: 1



1980-1989: Total of 52
1) John Cappelletti: 1 (with 3 others in the 70s)
2) Rob Carpenter: 8 (with 2 others in the late 70s)
3) Dan Doornink: 1 (with 1 other in the late 70s)
4) Joe Dudek: 1
5) Hokie Gajan: 1
5) Merrill Hoge: 3 (with 1 other in the early 90s)

6) Craig James: 9
7) Rick Kane: 1 (with 1 other in the late 70s)
8) Larry Moriarty: 3
9) John Riggins: 19 (with 15 others in the 70s)
10) Matt Suhey: 3
11) Mark van Eeghen: 2 (with 7 others in the 70s)

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The decade we can
use for comparison purposes, 1970-1979. The last decade before the full
implementation of the Caste System against White RBs. The list from this
decade is still under construction, but 137 100 yard rushing
performances have been identified so far.

1) Mike Adamle: 1
2) Bobby Anderson: 1
3) Donny Anderson: 5
4) Pete Banaszak: 1
5) Jim Bertelsen: 1
6) Rocky Bleier: 5
7) Bill Brown: 1
8) Norm Bulaich: 5
9) John Cappelletti: 3 (with 1 other in the early 80s)
10) Rob Carpenter: 2 (with 8 others in the early 80s)
11) Vince Clements: 1
12) Larry Csonka: 19
13) Scott Dierking: 1
14) Dan Doornink: 1 (with 1 other in the early 80s)
15) Doug Dressler: 1
16) Walt Garrison: 1
17) Paul Hofer: 3
18) Marv Hubbard: 10
19) Andy Johnson: 4
20) Les Josephson: 1
21) Rick Kane: 1 (with 1 other in the early 80s)
22) Jim Kiick: 2
23) Jeff Kinney: 2
24) Jon Keyworth: 2
25) Doug Kotar: 4
26) Scott Laidlaw: 2
27) Rob Lytle: 2
28) Ed Marinaro: 2
29) Don McCauley: 2
30) Don Nottingham: 3
31) Dave Osborn: 1
32) Jim Otis: 9
33) Steve Owens: 3
34) Ed Podolak: 9
35) John Riggins: 15 (with 19 others in the 80s)
36) Larry Schreiber: 2
37) Mark van Eeghen: 7 (with 2 others in the early 80s)
38) Ken Willard: 3
39) Fred Willis: 1
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Wristshot said:
On January 5, 1964 Keith Lincoln in the AFL Championship game against the Boston Patriots, rushed 13 times for 206 yards, caught seven passes for 123 yards, and completed a 20 yard pass.

In all, he accounted for 349 total yards and two touchdowns as the Chargers captured the league championship by defeating the Patriots 51-10. Holy cow!
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found that amazing performance
[TUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWN5nrTOBFw[/TUBE]

Wish I could find footage of Billy Cannon in the NFL. It would be nice to see Hillis get a 200 yard performance this year.

Good work Colonel RebEdited by: dwid
 
Danny Woodhead deserves special mention for his 104-yard receiving game against the Jets today.

I'm afraid he's going to have to break a really long run to get a 100-yard rushing game with the few carries he gets each week, but we'll keep hoping for the best.
 
Good stuff,Reb and the rest of you guys.From what I can see you pretty much have every White 100 yard RB from the 70's listed although you may want to add Andy Johnson who had four century games for New England.Na Zdrowie.
 
speedster said:
Good stuff,Reb and the rest of you guys.From what I can see you pretty much have every White 100 yard RB from the 70's listed although you may want to add Andy Johnson who had four century games for New England.Na Zdrowie.
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Thanks for the name, speedster! Never heard of Andy before.
 
If quarterbacks count, Bears QB Bobby Douglass had 3 100 yard rushing games in the 70s, by far the highlights of his career (Bobby was a sort of white, non-criminal and slighly more intelligent Michael Vick).
 
(KFFL) Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow became the 16th NFL quarterback since 1950 to rush for more than 100 yards in a game. He finished with 118 yards on 12 runs, second-most in franchise history. Former Broncos QB Norris Weese ran for 120 yards Dec. 12, 1976, against the Chicago Bears.
 
JReb1 said:
(KFFL) Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow became the 16th NFL quarterback since 1950 to rush for more than 100 yards in a game. He finished with 118 yards on 12 runs, second-most in franchise history. Former Broncos QB Norris Weese ran for 120 yards Dec. 12, 1976, against the Chicago Bears.
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Norris Weese was the next starting QB at Ole Miss after Archie Manning. Glad to see Tim Tebow tearing up the affaletic NFL defenses!
 
Great news! I forgot about all the games today, but it was a great day for our few White RBs!

I updated the list to reflect these changes.
 
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