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...about ball carriers, a sequence of unbelievable runners, all of them wearing No. 44. "Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little," he says with a snap in his voice, though his own number now is 78. "They never knew what they did. They just did it. Perfect instincts. Larry Csonka's instinct was to drop his shoulder and run over you. That worked too." Because Csonka started as a lineman, he never wore 44. Joe Morris was offered the number around 1980 but declined. A large part of Syracuse was declining...
...have a history of taking tailbacks and sending them home with their tails between their legs," Clemens said. This isn't idle talk; Clemens has stopped Larry Csonka, Tony Dorsett, Floyd Little and Chuck Muncie...
After the game, Miami Coach Don Shula could smile and say of Riggins, who had carried the ball 38 times for 166 yds., "He reminded me of a fullback I used to know"; Larry Csonka, of course. "Riggins is one of the best big athletes [6 ft. 2 in., 235 Ibs.] ever to hit the National Football League. Pretty awesome." On a fourth down off-tackle play everyone in the Rose Bowl expected, Riggins crashed the line and ran 43 yds. for the telling touchdown. Earlier there were Washington tricks, the flanker reverse Richard Nixon used to recommend, the flea...
...acquisition of piledriving fullback Larry Csonka was rare and refreshing fruit to the Giants' lackluster ground game, while Arnsparger shored up the defense with a linebacking corps of Brad Van Pelt, Pat Kelly and Brian Hughes...
...Thomas' plans for rebuilding the Colts have worked out. One big catch that got away this year was Larry Csonka. He had played for Thomas at Miami, and could have been the answer to Baltimore's shortage of size and experience in the fullback position. Csonka talked with his old boss briefly when he became a free agent last March, but later signed with the New York Giants. The problem, says Thomas unhappily, was Csonka's demand for a guaranteed, no-cut contract. "I just don't give anyone that," he explains...