 |
This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (November 2007) (Find sources: Calvin Hill – news, books, scholar) |
 Calvin Hill |
|||
|
|||
| Born | January 2, 1947 Baltimore, Maryland |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Career information | |||
| Year(s) | 1969–1981 | ||
| NFL Draft | 1969 / Round: 1 / Pick: 24 | ||
| College | Yale | ||
| Professional teams | |||
| Career stats | |||
| Rushing yards | 6,083 | ||
| Average | 4.2 | ||
| Touchdowns | 42 | ||
| Stats at NFL.com | |||
| Career highlights and awards | |||
Calvin G. Hill (born January 2, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a retired American football running back who had a 12-year NFL career from 1969 to 1981. He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns. In 1975 he moved to the World Football League to play for The Hawaiians where he carried the ball 49 times for 218 yards and no touchdowns in 1975. [1]
Hill was named to the Pro Bowl team four times (1969, 1972, 1973 and 1974). In 1972, he became the first Cowboy running back to have a 1,000 yard rushing season (with 1,036 yards rushing); he repeated the feat in the following season with 1,142 yards rushing.
College career
Before his professional career, Hill attended Yale University, where he led, along with Brian Dowling, the 1968 Yale team that was undefeated, although the last game of the season, resulted a dramatic 29-29 tie at Harvard. At Yale, Hill was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter), where one of his fraternity brothers was President George W. Bush. He also was a member of the secret society, St. Elmo, which Bush's Attorney General, John Ashcroft, enjoyed, five years earlier.
Prior to attending Yale, he was awarded a scholarship by his family doctor, Dr. William C. Wade, to attend the Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, New York. At Riverdale he was an accomplished athlete in football, basketball, baseball, and track and field, often leading teams that defeated athletic arch-rival Horace Mann School.
Personal
His wife Janet Hill, is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she shared a suite with Hillary Rodham Clinton. They are the parents of current NBA player Grant Hill. Hill was the 1969 NFL Rookie of the Year. Twenty six years later, his son Grant would win the NBA Rookie of the Year award which he shared with Jason Kidd.
Hill currently works for the Dallas Cowboys organization as a consultant who specializes in working with troubled players.[2]
Notes
| Preceded by Earl McCullouch |
AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year 1969 |
Succeeded by Dennis Shaw |
| Preceded by Dick Anderson Bob Johnson Donna A. Lopiano Donald A. Schollander Stan Smith Wyomia Tyus |
Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA) Class of 1994 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Lee Evans Calvin Hill William C. Hurd Leroy Keyes Jim Ryun |
Succeeded by Lesley Bush Larry Echohawk Kwaku Ohene-Frempong Bob Lanier Mike Phipps Mike Reid |
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
