Jim Brown (football player)

Jim Brown (football player)
Jim Brown 2007
Positions: running back / fullback	Jersey number (s): 32
born February 17, 1936 on St. Simons Island , Georgia
Career information
Active : 1957 - 1965
NFL Draft : 1957 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6
College : Syracuse University
Teams
Cleveland Browns (1957-1965)
Career statistics
yards run	12,312
Average per run	5.2
Touchdowns	126
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards
1964 NFL Champion 9 × Pro Bowl election ( 1957 , 1958 , 1959 , 1960 , 1961 , 1962 , 1963 , 1964 , 1965 ) 8 × All-Pro election (1957–1965) 1st + 2nd team NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team NFL 1960s All-Decade Team Bert Bell Award (1963) NFL Most Valuable Player Award (1957, 1958, 1963, 1965) 3 × Pro Bowl MVP (1961, 1962, 1965)
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame

James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown (born February 17, 1936 on St. Simons Island , Georgia ) is a retired American running back and lacrosse player and actor .

Sports career

Brown grew up with his great-grandmother and didn't follow his mother to New York until she was nine years old . He attended Manhasset High School on Long Island and earned 13 varsity letters in five sports , resulting in over forty athletic scholarship offers. Brown decided to accept the offer from Syracuse University , which he attended from 1953 to 1956. It was here that the college football star first consciously experienced racism in the United States . He encountered this subtle racism with a brittle demeanor, a brash character and brutal honesty. The public allowed him to do so because of his extraordinary performance on the Grid Iron.

Brown played between 1957 and 1966 in the US professional league National Football League (NFL) with the Cleveland Browns , who had joined the league in 1951, and professional football in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1946 by signing two African-American players a so-called gentlemen's agreement 1933-1946 reintegrated had. Considered one of the best players in American football history , he was named Rookie of the Year in 1957 and was nominated nine times for the Pro Bowl . It is represented in three different halls of fame : the Pro Football Hall of Fame , College Football Hall of Fame, and the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame . Brown is a member of the National Football League's 1960s All-Decade Team and in 1994 he also became a member of the National Football League 75th Anniversary All-Time Team . In 1963 he received the Bert Bell Award .

Film career

After his active sports career, he began a second career as an actor. Here he appeared in a few larger supporting roles (for example in The Dirty Dozen , 1967 and Eisstation Zebra , 1968), and even received a few leading roles in the late 1960s. But he could never make the big breakthrough. After being seen mainly in B-films and blaxploitation productions in the 1970s , he has been able to get roles in major Hollywood productions again since 1987 ( Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger ).

Filmography (selection)

• 1967: The Dirty Dozen ( The Dirty Dozen )
• 1968: Katanga ( The Mercenaries )
• 1968: Ice Station Zebra ( Ice Station Zebra )
• 1968: The big box office ( The Split )
• 1969: 100 Rifles (100 Rifles)
• 1970: ... tick ... tick ... tick ... (... tick ... tick ... tick ...)
• 1970: El Condor (El Condor)
• 1972: Slaughter
• 1973: Mutiny on Devil's Island (I Escaped from Devil's Island)
• 1975: One hit the bib (Take a Hard Ride)
• 1976: Deadly Revenge (Kid Vengeance)
• 1987: Running Man ( The Running Man )
• 1988: Ghettobusters ( I'm Gonna Git You Sucka )
• 1996: Mars Attacks! ( Mars Attacks! )
• 1998: Game of Life ( He Got Game )
• 1998: Small Soldiers ( Small Soldiers )
• 1999: Any Given Sunday ( Any Given Sunday )
• 2005: Animal - Violence Has a Name (Berwell)
• 2014: Draft Day

Web links

Commons : Jim Brown  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Jim Brown in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jim Brown in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russell T. Wiggington: The Strange Career of the Black Athlete. African Americans and Sports. Westport / London, 2006: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-98223-8 (pages 57-61, in English.)