Word: payton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Payton aims at O.J. 's record...
...phantom crowds that cheered on Walter Payton as a boy are for real. As a super running back for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League, he has transformed the Windy City into Payton Place, where adoring fans and the daily papers call him "Wonderful Walter." Little wonder. In his third year as a pro, Payton, 23, has not only broken O.J. Simpson's single-game rushing mark of 273 yds. (275 yds. in November's game against the Minnesota Vikings) but is also helping to keep the rebuilding Bears in contention for a play-off spot...
Plunging through a hole, cutting to elude pursuing linebackers, squirming for ward with with the tacklers best of draped around and to him, have Payton earned may be the hardest runner to bring down in the N.F.L. game. "He's just mule-headed," says his mother Alyne, whose oldest son Eddie returns kicks for the Detroit Lions. "When five or six players get him, he just won't give...
...wonder everyone around here is talking about George Hughes' haircut, Glenn Fine's shoe size, Cornbread Maxwell's playing time, and the fact that the new swimming pool hasn't been completed yet. Both pro and college football seasons, save for the running of the Bears' Walter Payton and Woody Hayes' punching out of a television camera, have been nothing short of boring...
Perhaps The Beast's best feature is his efficiency. He has led the team's ground attack while averaging only six-and-a-half carries per game. Despite the fact that his 5.8 yards-per-carry average ranks right up there with Walter Payton and Tony Dorsett, Doherty doesn't mind the infrequency of his carries...