Larry Richard Csonka is a former professional American football fullback. He played for the Miami Dolphins for the majority of his career. He is the Dolphins franchise’s all-time leading rusher with 6,737 yards and 53 touchdowns. He was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Pro Football Hall Of Fame in 1987.
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Larry Richard Csonka is a former professional American football fullback. He played for the Miami Dolphins for the majority of his career, along with the New York Giants for three years, and a short stint with the Memphis Southmen in the WFL. He is the Dolphins franchise’s all-time leading rusher with 6,737 yards and 53 touchdowns. In his last year with the Dolphins in 1979, he also won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award. He was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Pro Football Hall Of Fame in 1987. He has had his jersey number retired by the Dolphins, and is currently one of three former Miami Dolphins to have his number retired. His style of running reminded people of a legendary power runner from the 1930s, Bronko Nagurski, who was described as a bulldozer or battering ram. He also played in the East–West Shrine Game, the Hula Bowl, and the College All-Star Game. In 1989, he was enshrined in the College football Hall of Hall of Famer, the first running back to be so honored. His jersey number has also been retired by Miami, as well as the New England Patriots, New York Jets, and San Francisco 49ers, among other NFL teams. He died in a car accident in 2009. He had a son, Michael, who is now a high school football coach in Akron, Ohio, and has a daughter, Emma, who plays for the University of Akron football team.
His son is the son of Hungarian immigrants, who moved to the U.S. in the 1950s. His daughter has a son who is also a professional football player, who played for New York City and New York State. His great-great-grandson is former New York Yankees quarterback Bill Parcells. He won the Super Bowl MVP award in 1973, when he ran for a then record 145 yards in a game against the Packers. He ran for 100 yards in 14 different games, and averaged 4. 9 yards per carry. He became an All-American at Syracuse University in 1965, where he established many of the school’s rushing records, breaking several that had been held by Ernie Davis, Jim Nance, Floyd Little, and Jim Brown. In the 1968 Common Draft he was the No. 1 pick by the American Football League’s Miami Dolphins, the eighth player and firstRunning back drafted in the first round. He suffered a concussion in the fifth game of the 1968 season, at home against Buffalo, and suffered another concussion, plus a ruptured eardrum and a broken nose. He missed three games in 1968 and three more in 1969. Over the next four seasons, he never missed a game, and he led the next five Dolphins in rushing next year. By the 1970s, he had become one of the most feared runners in professional football. He stood 6 ft 3in and 235 lb, and was described by the Minnesota Vikings linebacker Jeff Siemon as a ” bulldozer”
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