Bob Garner
Robert Lee Garner (September 26, 1934 – June 25, 1990) was an American football player who played with the Los Angeles Chargers and Oakland Raiders. He played college football at California State University, Fresno. His hometown was Hanford, California Hanford is a city and county seat of Kings County, California, located in the San Joaquin Valley region of the greater Central Valley (California), Central Valley. The population was 53,967 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History .... References 1934 births 1990 deaths American football defensive backs Fresno State Bulldogs football players Los Angeles Chargers players Oakland Raiders players Players of American football from Long Beach, California American Football League players {{defensiveback-1930s-stub ...
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Defensive Back
In gridiron football, defensive backs (DBs), also called the secondary, are the players on the defensive side of the ball who play farthest back from the line of scrimmage. They are distinguished from the other two sets of defensive players, the defensive linemen who play directly on the line of scrimmage, and the linebackers, who play in the middle of the defense, between the defensive line and the defensive backs. Among the defensive backs, there are two main types, cornerbacks, which play nearer the line of scrimmage and the sideline, whose main role is to cover the opposing team's wide receivers, and the Safety (gridiron football position), safeties, who play further back near the center of the field, and who act as the last line of defense. American defensive formations usually includes two of each, a left and right cornerback, as well as a strong safety and a free safety, with the free safety tending to play further back than the strong safety. In Canadian football, which ha ...
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