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Emerson Boozer (born July 4, 1943) is an American former professional football player who spent his entire career as a running back for the New York Jets in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). In the last year of separate drafts by the AFL and the NFL, Boozer signed with the AFL's Jets, rather than with an NFL ...
1966 AFL Championship Game. At War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, ... He finished with a career-best 83 receiving yards and a touchdown to go along with 58 rushing yards. Cook rushed for 79 yards ...
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.
[64] [56] His 216 rushing yards in the game also set an AFL record. [65] That December 10, 1961 game is also the highest scoring single-game fantasy football performance of all time in many scoring systems. [66] At the end of the season, he was the AFL's leading rusher with 948 yards and led the league in all-purpose yards.
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 ...
A 79-year-old man was charged with first degree murder on Monday for allegedly stabbing a woman more than 120 times nearly six decades ago, authorities said. 79-year-old man arrested in 1966 ...
On January 4, 1966, Segrest was arrested, but released on $20,000 bond. [20] He was indicted for murder in the second degree and tried on December 7. [ 20 ] The trial was moved from Macon County , where blacks outnumbered whites by a 2-1 margin, to Lee County . [ 20 ]
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.