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The AFL now had nine teams, grouped into two divisions (the new Miami team was in the Eastern Division, now with five teams), and still played a 14-game schedule. In previous seasons (with eight clubs), each played a home-and-away game against the other seven. All nine teams faced each other at least once, and each team played six others twice.
Garrett won a World Championship ring with the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV, the last AFL–NFL World Championship Game before the AFL–NFL merger, when the AFL's Chiefs beat the NFL's Vikings, 23–7. Garrett was the top rusher of Super Bowl IV with 11 carries for 39 yards and a touchdown, also catching two passes for 25 yards and returning a ...
Nance signed with the Patriots. Though his rookie season was unimpressive, he led the AFL in rushing the next two seasons. He went on to become the only AFL player ever to rush for more than 1,400 yards in a season. At 6-1 and 260 pounds, Nance was a powerful fullback who carried 299 times in 1966, for 11 touchdowns and 1,458 yards.
The team's statistical leaders included Dick Vidmer with 1,609 passing yards, Dave Fisher with 672 rushing yards, and Jack Clancy with 1,077 receiving yards. [ 11 ] 1966 Western Michigan Broncos football team – Under head coach Bill Doolittle , the Broncos compiled a 7–3 record and were Mid-American Conference co-champions.
1966 AFL Championship Game. ... He finished with a career-best 83 receiving yards and a touchdown to go along with 58 rushing yards. Cook rushed for 79 yards against the Steelers in the Bills ...
Rushing leaders in the ten-year history of the American Football League (AFL) 1960–1969. A total of eight men were annual AFL rushing leaders. A total of eight men were annual AFL rushing leaders. Cookie Gilchrist and Jim Nance each led the league in two seasons.
The league resulting from the merger was a 26-team juggernaut (since expanded to 32) with television rights covering all of the Big Three television networks (and since the 1990s, the newer Fox network) and teams in close proximity to almost all of the top 40 metropolitan areas, a fact that has precluded any other competing league from gaining ...
He also set Michigan records with 2,524 career rushing yards, 19 rushing touchdowns in a season, and 139.1 rushing yards per game in 1968. He played seven seasons in the NFL from 1969 to 1975 and became the first player in New York Giants history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, accomplishing the feat in both 1970 and 1972.