Calvin G. Hill (born January 2, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a retired American football running back who had a 12-year NFL career from 1969 to 1981. He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns. In 1975 he moved to the World Football League to play for The Hawaiians where he carried the ball 49 times for 218 yards and no touchdowns in 1975.
Hill was named to the Pro Bowl team four times (1969, 1972, 1973 and 197...
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Calvin G. Hill (born January 2, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a retired American football running back who had a 12-year NFL career from 1969 to 1981. He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns. In 1975 he moved to the World Football League to play for The Hawaiians where he carried the ball 49 times for 218 yards and no touchdowns in 1975.
Hill was named to the Pro Bowl team four times (1969, 1972, 1973 and 1974). In 1972, he became the first Cowboy running back to have a 1,000 yard rushing season (with 1,036 yards rushing); he repeated the feat in the following season with 1,142 yards rushing.
Before his professional career, Hill graduated from Yale University in 1969 with a degree in history. While at Yale he led, along with Brian Dowling, the 1968 Yale team that was undefeated, although the last game of the season resulted a dramatic 29-29 tie at Harvard. At Yale, Hill was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter), where one of his...
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