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Some players were able to continue to play football while in the military as part of the military service teams which proliferated as a focus for physical training and source of mass entertainment. Hundreds of NFL players had their playing careers interrupted or terminated by the conflict for months or years, losing seasons in their athletic prime.
Playing in the NFL is one of the most physically demanding sports. The players are exposed to many hard hits and are often injured. This plus given the fact the NFL is highly competitive, and there is a large group of talented players wanting to take the place of those who are injured or no longer able to perform at a high level, most careers are not long.
A player's positional adjustment is the sum of the positional adjustment for each position played by the player scaled to the number of games played by the player at that position, normalized to 1,350 innings. An additional adjustment is made so that the Rpos of all the players in the league sum to 0.
In the era of the one-platoon football, he played as an end and spent his entire 11-year career with the Green Bay Packers. Under head coach Curly Lambeau, Hutson led the Packers to four NFL Championship Games, winning three in 1936, 1939, and 1944. Hutson joined the Packers in 1935 and played 11 seasons before he retired in 1945.
In 1947, the Eagles won eight of twelve games and wound up tied with Pittsburgh in the division, meaning a tiebreaker game was required to determine who would play in the NFL Championship Game Thompson was the starting quarterback for the Eagles in the game, and went 11-of-17 for 131 yards and two touchdowns.
In the final play of that game, Bednarik was the last Eagles defensive player between the Green Bay Packers' Jim Taylor and the end zone. Bednarik tackled Taylor at the Eagles' eight-yard line, and remained atop Taylor as the final seconds ticked off the clock, ensuring the Packers could not run another play and preserving a 17–13 Eagles ...
This is a list of the most consecutive starts and games played by a player by position in the National Football League (NFL). [1] [2] Quarterback Brett Favre's streak of 297 consecutive games started is the longest all-time. [3] [4] Among defensive players, Jim Marshall's 270 is the longest. [3]
The Tigers registered an undefeated season (11–0) in 1949, led the nation in total offense (502.9 yards a game), and set an NCAA single-season record of 575 points. LeBaron was a two-way, 60-minute player, as a quarterback on offense, safety on defense, and punter on special teams. He also played one year of baseball for the Tigers as a catcher.