Joe Krakoski (defensive Back)
Joseph Andrew Krakoski, Jr. (born December 18, 1937) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, as well as the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League. Krakoski was a fourteen time letter winner at Westville High School in Westville, Illinois. He played college football at the University of Illinois where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He was NFL Draft, drafted in the sixth round of the 1961 NFL Draft, as well as in the 18th round of the 1961 American Football League Draft, 1961 AFL Draft. References

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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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