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Gene Lipscomb
Eugene Allen "Gene" Lipscomb (August 9, 1931 – May 10, 1963) was an American football defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons and a Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He was known by the nickname "Big Daddy". Early life Born in Uniontown, Alabama, Lipscomb never knew his father, and moved to Detroit, Michigan, at age three with his mother. When he was eleven, his mother was murdered in the neighborhood where they lived, and he moved in with his maternal grandparents. Professional career After graduating from Sidney D. Miller Middle School, Miller High School, Lipscomb did not attend college and instead served in the United States Marine Corps, where he was stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Camp Pendleton and played on the camp's football team. Signed as an Undrafted sportsperson, undrafted free agent by the 1953 Los Angeles Rams season, Los Angeles Rams in 1953 Los Angeles Rams season, 1953, Lipscomb played for them t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Pittsburgh Steelers Season
The 1961 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 29th in the National Football League. Regular season Schedule Game summaries Week 1 (Sunday September 17, 1961): Dallas Cowboys ''at Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas'' * Game time: * Game weather: * Game attendance: 23,500 * Referee: * TV announcers: Scoring Drives: * Dallas – Clarke 44 pass from LeBaron (Green kick) * Pittsburgh – Johnson 1 run (Layne kick) * Pittsburgh – Dial 44 pass from Layne (Layne kick) * Dallas – FG Green 15 * Dallas – Howton 45 pass from LeBaron (Green kick) * Pittsburgh – FG Michaels 12 * Pittsburgh – Sample 39 interception return (Layne kick) * Dallas – Bieski 17 pass from Meredith (Green kick) * Dallas – FG Green 27 Week 2 (Sunday September 24, 1961): New York Giants ''at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania'' * Game time: * Game weather: * Game attendance: 35,587 * Referee: * TV announcers: Scoring Drives: * Pittsburgh – Johnson 1 run ( Tracy kick) * New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 All-Pro Team
Selectors of All-Pros for the 1960 National Football League season included the Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI), ''New York Daily News'' (NYDN), Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and ''The Sporting News'' (SN). Offensive selections Quarterbacks * Norm Van Brocklin, Philadelphia Eagles (AP, NEA, UPI) * Milt Plum, Cleveland Browns (AP-2) * Johnny Unitas, Baltimore Colts (NEA-2) Halfbacks * Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packers (AP, NEA, UPI) * Lenny Moore, Baltimore Colts (AP, NEA, UPI) * John David Crow, St. Louis Cardinals (NEA, AP-2) * Tom Tracy, Pittsburgh Steelers (AP-2, NEA-2) * Bobby Mitchell, Cleveland Browns (NEA-2) Fullbacks * Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns (AP, NEA, UPI) * Jim Taylor, Green Bay Packers (AP-2, NEA-2) Ends * Raymond Berry, Baltimore Colts (AP, NEA, UPI) * Sonny Randle, St. Louis Cardinals (AP, UPI, NEA-2) * Tommy McDonald, Philadelphia Eagles (NEA) * Jim Phillips, Los Angeles Rams (AP-2) * R. C. Owens, San Francisco 49ers (AP-2) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps and is one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the United States. It is on the Southern California coast in San Diego County and is bordered by Oceanside to the south, San Clemente and Orange County to the north, Riverside County to the northeast, and Fallbrook to the east. The base was established in 1942 to train U.S. Marines for service in World War II. By October 1944, Camp Pendleton was declared a "permanent installation," and by 1946 it became the home of the 1st Marine Division. It was named after Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton (1860–1942), who had long advocated setting up a training base for the Marine Corps on the West Coast. Today it is home to myriad Fleet Marine Force, Operating Force units, including the I Marine Expeditionary Force and various training commands. History Prior to World War II In 1769, a Spanish expedition led by Captain Gaspar de Portolá ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. The Marine Corps has been part of the U.S. Department of the Navy since 30 June 1834 with its sister service, the United States Navy. The USMC operates installations on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships around the world. Additionally, several of the Marines' tactical aviation squadrons, primarily Marine Fighter Attack squadrons, are also embedded in Navy carrier air wings and operate from the aircraft carriers. The history of the Marine Corps began when two battalions of Continental Marines were formed on 10 November 1775 in Philadelphia as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Wrestling
Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or—as in televised wrestling shows—in backstage areas of the venue, in similar form to reality television. Professional wrestling as a form of theater evolved out of the widespread practice of match fixing among wrestlers in the early 20th century. Rather than sanction the wrestlers for their deceit as was done with boxers, the public instead came to see professional wrestling as a performance art rather than a sport. Professional wrestlers responded to the public's attitude by dispensing with verisimilitude in favor of entertainment, adding melodrama and outlandish stuntwork to their performances. Although the mock combat they performed ceased to resemble any authentic wrestling form, the wrestlers nevertheless continued to pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and the highest professional level of American football in the world. Each NFL season begins with a three-week preseason in August, followed by the 18-week regular season which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one bye week In sport, a bye is the preferential status of a player or team that is automatically advanced to the next round of a tournament, without having to play an opponent in an early round. In knockout (elimination) tournaments they can be granted eit .... Following the conclusion of the regular season, seven teams from each conference (four division winners and three wild card teams) advance to the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defensive Tackle
A defensive tackle (DT) is a position in American football that will typically line up on the line of scrimmage, opposite one of the offensive guards, however he may also line up opposite one of the tackles. Defensive tackles are typically the largest and strongest of the defensive players. Depending on a team's individual defensive scheme, a defensive tackle may be called upon to fill several different roles. These roles may include merely holding the point of attack by refusing to be moved, or penetrating a certain gap between offensive linemen to break up a play in the opponent's backfield. If a defensive tackle reads a pass play, his primary responsibility is to pursue the quarterback, or simply knock the pass down at the line if it is within arm's reach. Other responsibilities of the defensive tackle may be to pursue the screen pass or drop into coverage in a zone blitz scheme. In a traditional 4–3 defense, there is no nose tackle. Instead there is a left and right defensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with the ball or passing it, while the defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs or plays; if they fail, they turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the drive. Points are scored primarily by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins. American football evolved in the United States, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh Steelers Legends Team
The Pittsburgh Steelers Legends team represents the franchise's best players from the pre-1970 era. The team was chosen by a small group of Steeler officials and journalists and presented as a part of the Steelers' 75th season celebration in . The club also presented an updated and expanded All-Time team at the same time, which was determined on the basis of fan voting. While the All-Time team represented the top 33 players in the team's first 75 years, club officials recognized that the All-Time team was selected by fans who had a natural bias toward choosing more recent players due to the team's poor record prior to 1970, and the fact that many Steelers fans would never have seen the older players perform. As such, many noteworthy players from the team's first four decades were overlooked. The Legends team was created to address this oversight, with Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney saying "There were a lot of great Steelers prior to 1970 who were as good as today's superstars, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of National Football League Annual Sacks Leaders
This is a list of National Football League players who have led the regular season in sacks each year. Sacks became an official statistic in 1982. Michael Strahan of the New York Giants and T. J. Watt of the Pittsburgh Steelers hold the record with 22.5, which Strahan had during the 2001 season, and Watt during the 2021 season. In 2013, the NFL created the Deacon Jones Award to recognize the season leader in sacks. There have only been two players who have led the league in sacks with 2 different teams, Jared Allen (2007 with the Chiefs and 2011 with the Vikings) and Kevin Greene (1994 with the Steelers and 1996 with the Panthers). The Chiefs and the Vikings have had the most players lead the NFL in sacks with 4. Eight players have led the NFL in sacks twice, and nobody has led the league three times. NFL sack leaders ''Note that the sack totals from 1960 to 1981 are considered unofficial by the NFL''. ''Table updated through the NFL season''. Most sack titles A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Pro Bowl
The 1963 Pro Bowl was the National Football League's thirteenth annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the season. The game was played on January 13, 1963, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, under sunny skies in front of 61,374 fans. The Eastern Conference was coached by Allie Sherman of the New York Giants and the West by Vince Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers. Both were the coaches in the NFL Championship Game, held two weeks earlier in New York. Fullback Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns set a Pro Bowl record, carrying for 141 yards, breaking his own record of 120 set the previous year; he was named the "Back of the Game." "Big Daddy" Gene Lipscomb of the Pittsburgh Steelers was awarded "Lineman of the Game" honors; he had perhaps the finest day of any defender in the history of the Pro Bowl, blocking two field goals and being responsible for hits that led to six West fumbles. It was Lipscomb's final NFL appearance; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Pro Bowl
The 1960 Pro Bowl was the NFL's tenth annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1959 season. The game was played on Saturday, January 17, 1960, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California in front of 58,876. The final score was West 38, East 21. The East team was led by the Philadelphia Eagles' Buck Shaw while Red Hickey of the San Francisco 49ers coached the West squad. The Baltimore Colts swept the player of the game awards, with quarterback Johnny Unitas, the NFL MVP for 1959, being voted the outstanding back and defensive lineman Eugene Lipscomb named the outstanding lineman. References External links * {{NFL on NBC Pro Bowl Pro Bowl Pro Bowl Pro Bowl The National Football League All-Star Game (1939–1942), Pro Bowl (1951–2022), or Pro Bowl Games (starting in 2023) is an annual event held by the National Football League (NFL) featuring the league's star players. The format has changed thro ... 1960 in Los Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
