Rufus Crawford is an American actor and retired football player who was a running back for the

Hamilton Tiger-Cats The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Tim Hortons Fiel ...

from 1979 through 1985. He broke the

Canadian Football League The Canadian Football League (CFL; french: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. The league consists of nine teams, each located in a ci ...

yardage record which had stood for 28 years. He started his career in the NFL with the

Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West, which they rejoined in 2002 as ...

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* 1955 births Living people American players of Canadian football American football return specialists Canadian football running backs Seattle Seahawks players Hamilton Tiger-Cats players Virginia State Trojans football players People from Gastonia, North Carolina Players of American football from North Carolina {{Canadianfootball-runningback-stub