Leon Crosswhite (born April 28, 1951) is a former

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 ...

fullback.

College career

Crosswhite attended

University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two Territories became the state of Oklahom ...

and played for the Sooners football team as a

Running back A running back (RB) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football. The primary roles of a running back are to receive American football plays#Offensive terminology, handoffs from the quarterback to Rush (American football)#Offen ...

part of the

Wishbone formation The wishbone formation, also known simply as the bone, is an offensive formation in American football. The style of attack to which it gives rise is known as the wishbone offense. Like the spread offense in the 2000s to the present, the wishbone ...

, from 1970 to 1973.

NFL career

He played for the

Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North Division. The team play their home games at Ford ...

from 1973 to 1974. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 1973 NFL Draft. On January 28, 1975, Crosswhite was traded to the

New England Patriots The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East divisio ...

. On September 3, 1975 the Patriots placed Crosswhite on injured reserve.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crosswhite, Leon 1951 births Living people People from Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Players of American football from Oklahoma American football running backs Oklahoma Sooners football players Detroit Lions players