Jim Taylor (football player)
| Jim Taylor | |
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Position (s): Fullback |
Jersey number (s): 31 |
| born on September 20, 1935 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana | |
| died on 13. October 2018 ibid | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1958 - 1967 | |
| NFL Draft : 1958 / Round: 2 / Pick: 15 | |
| College : LSU | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Gaining space through running | 8,597 yards |
| Average per run | 4.4 |
| Touchdowns | 83 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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| Pro Football Hall of Fame | |
James Charles Taylor , also Jim Taylor and Jimmy Taylor (born September 20, 1935 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana - † October 13, 2018 there ) was an American American football player in the position of running back . He played for the Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League (NFL).
career
High school / college
Jim Taylor played American football in high school in his hometown and then attended Louisiana State University .
professional
In the 1958 NFL Draft , Taylor was selected 15th in the second round by one of the worst teams at the time, the Green Bay Packers . In 1959, Vince Lombardi became Head Coach at Green Bay . The Packers became one of the best football teams in the 1960s. The Packers signed Paul Hornung a year before Taylor . The running back duo Taylor / Hornung ( nickname : "Thunder & Lightning" , German: "Donner und Blitz") became a dreaded attack weapon of the Packers. From 1961 to 1966 the Packers won the NFL championship four times , in 1961 against the New York Giants with 37-0, in 1962 against the same team with 16: 7 (Taylor had a touchdown ), in 1965 against the Cleveland Browns with 23:12 and a year later against the Dallas Cowboys 34:27. The victory in the last game also meant a place in the AFL-NFL Championship Game , which later in Super Bowl I was renamed. At that Super Bowl , Taylor scored a touchdown, the Packers won with quarterback Bart Starr 35:10 against the Kansas City Chiefs .
Taylor played for the Packers until 1966 and then moved to the newly formed New Orleans Saints for a year . After a season with the Saints, he ended his career.
Taylor was able to gain 8,597 yards of space through running play during his ten-year NFL career . In his most successful year (1962) he gained 1,474 yards of space. That was a league top performance, as well as the 19 touchdowns scored this year.
Honors
Jim Taylor is a member of the 1960s NFL All-Decade Team , the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame , the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame . He played five times in the Pro Bowl , the final game of the best players of the season. He was voted All-Pro six times. In 1962 he was elected MVP for the entire NFL season.
Off the field
Jim Taylor became a successful businessman after his career. In 1978 he was the executive director of the American National Rugby League . He was married and died in his hometown, where he found his final resting place in the Greenoaks Memorial Park .
Web links
- Jim Taylor in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Statistics by Jim Taylor
- Jim Tayler with the Packers
- Jim Taylor's website
- obituary
- Obituary to the Green Bay Packers
- Jim Taylor in the Find a Grave database
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| SURNAME | Taylor, Jim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taylor, James Charles; Taylor, Jimmy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player on the running back position |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baton Rouge , Louisiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 2018 |
| Place of death | Baton Rouge , Louisiana |