NFL legend, actor and social activist Jim Brown has died at the age of 87. Brown shattered records during a relatively short NFL career, leading the Cleveland Browns to their last championship in 1964 — and retired in his prime to become an actor. Brown
A four-sport letterwinner at Syracuse, Brown wore the Block S on the football and lacrosse fields, the basketball court and as a track & field student-athlete. The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame regards Brown as the greatest lacrosse player ever. A two-time lacrosse A...
track, andlacrosseas well asfootball. In his final year at Syracuse, Brown earnedAll-Americahonours in both football and lacrosse. Many considered Brown’s best sport to be lacrosse, and he was inducted into both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the U.S. Lacrosse National Hall of Fame...
in the 1965 season,Cleveland Brownsrunning back Jim Brown led the NFL in rushing with 1,544 yards in a 14-game season, an astonishing 677 yards more than runner-up Gale Sayers, the phenomenalChicago Bearsrookie. Brown had been voted the Associated Press most valuable player for the third ti...
He won a scholarship to Syracuse University where he was an all-American in lacrosse as well as football and a star on the basketball team. The NFL this year honored Brown by renaming the league's rushing title the Jim Brown Award. Some critics said it was disgraceful for the NFL to ...
1) Jim Brown ClevelandBrowns, 1957-1965 Brown could do anything you or he wanted. His skills weren't just limited to carrying the ball; he was an all-around athlete at Syracuse who excelled in basketball and lacrosse. He could also kick, and was a scratch golfer. ...
harpastum, often cited in support of these claims, seems to have involved throwing a ball rather than kicking it. Although kicking games were played by theindigenouspeoples ofNorth America, they were much less popular than the stickball games that are the origin of the modern game oflacrosse....
Foxy Brown Song:"Bang, Bang" Year:2000 Target:Lil' Kim Brutal Bars:"You and Diddy, y'all kill me with that subliminal s**t, b***h/Why's you frontin' and kickin' that street s**t?/Please, impress me, go back to that freak s**t/While your broke-a*s was guzzlin' nuts and...