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...tiny Grambling State University on the national map. Until 2003, when John Gagliardi of St. John's topped him, his 408-165-15 record over 56 years made him the winningest coach in college football. But he was proudest of the 200-plus players he sent to the NFL, including Paul Younger, the league's first player from an all-black school, in 1949, and Super Bowl MVP quarterback Doug Williams, who in 1998 succeeded Robinson as Grambling coach...
...Harvard’s linemen. And for them, with the simple goal of protecting the quarterback or opening holes for the running back comes another objective: being big. Real big.A typical Harvard lineman is around 6’4” and weighs in at 275 pounds, while NFL linemen tip the scales at an average of 300 pounds. How do they do that, you ask? They eat. And they eat a lot. They eat as much as they can, and sometimes even more. Eating becomes almost another form of training. After all, it takes a special something for someone...
...Blodgett pool. However, for the past couple of weeks, Dawson vanished from the public eye, and apparently from Harvard itself.Foregoing the cold and unpredictable Cambridge weather for somewhere slightly warmer, Dawson went to Sarasota, Florida, preparing, and hoping, to further his football career with an invitation to the NFL combine.“I spent a good amount of time training with other NFL hopefuls,” Dawson said. “I was definitely hoping for an invitation to the combine.”Unfortunately for Dawson, after weeks of training, that invitation did not come...
...long-term plan, we will see if most of the changes of the heart are in place by the time athletes arrive to college,” added Baggish. Harvard running back Clifton G. Dawson ’07, who is training for the NFL draft, said heart was the bedrock of competition. “During the course of the game, there are so many high points and low points, you need a strong heart to be able to focus and give it your all to win,” he said...
...baseball's training requirements don't even compare to pro football's. The NFL's summer sessions also last some six weeks, and teams also run mini-camps throughout the off-season. But football playbooks are like physics texts, so it's a wonder players don't need a whole semester to learn their schemes...