Calvin Hill
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Calvin G. Hill ( sophistication, 1947) is a retired American footballer.
For twelve seasons, he played in the National Football League.
Hill starred for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, and the Cleveland Browns.
In 1975, he spent a season with the Hawaiians of the World Football League. Hill was appointed to the Pro Bowl four times (1969, 1972, 1973, and 1974).
He became the first Cowboy to have a 1,000-yard rushing season in 1972 (with 1,036 yards rushing); the Cowboys surpassed him in the following season with 1,142 yards rushing. At its 2016 commencement, Yale University awarded Hill with an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree.
The opening sentence of the citation honoring Hill is "You are a Yale hero."
College career
During a visit to Yale Bowl on October 31, 1964, Hill expressed a desire to play in a stadium with a large seating capacity and was captivated by the large crowd, more than 70,000.
The coaching staff switched Hill to linebacker on the freshman team and gave the quarterback job to Brian Dowling on the second day of practices at Yale. He was relocated to halfback, where he remained after four days as a linebacker.
Hill and Dowling had exemplary on-field chemistry. Dowling could fly, and Hill could run, and both could pass by. Hill, who gave up six halfback option passes for touchdowns at Yale, praised Dowling's athletic virtuosity to John Coltrane's musicality.
The 1968 Yale team was led by Hill and Dowling to an undefeated season, bringing an end to the program at Harvard in a storied 29-29 tie. The Bulldogs set new records of 4-5, 8-1, and 8-0-1. In some games, Hill was also a tight end or linebacker.
In the Yale Daily News, he was a subject, as well as Dowling, of Garry Trudeau's "Bull Tales" cartoons. "Bull Tales" was the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury.
Hill, a sprinter and a jumper for Yale's track team, was a sprinter and jumper. He holds the school record for the outdoor triple jump. He was the Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Champion in 1967 and 1968, with a triple jump. Hill completed his three-year athletic career with 2527 all-purpose rushing yards, 1,512 passing yards, and 298 passing yards. Hill was a member of the Yale College Class of 1969. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Yale University.
Professional career
Hill was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the first round (24th overall) of the 1969 NFL draft. This selection was widely discussed at the time because teams did not know they would find professional players at elite colleges.
He was drafted as a star by the Cowboys, so he spent his first few days in training camp as a linebacker and tight end. He had a chance to play halfback in the second exhibition game because the team was having issues running back during the preparation camp. After suffering off-season knee surgery and backup Craig Baynham had bruised ribs, Don Perkins, the fourth top rusher in football history, had just announced his retirement, Dan Reeves. Hill never relinquished the starting job and, even though he was a rookie, he became a key player in the league when the regular season began. He was the best running back in the NFL with 807 rushing yards in the first nine games of the season. In a 41-28 victory over the Washington Redskins in the team's ninth game of the season, he toed him while running for a team record 150 yards. The team was unaware of the severity of the injury, so he missed the next two games. Hill played the last two games with a broken toe that required an injection before every practice and game when it was later revealed that it was broken.
Hill had 942 passing yards (4.6 yard average) and 8 touchdowns in his rookie season. In addition, he was named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, All-Pro, and Pro Bowl champion.
Duane Thomas was selected in the first round of the 1970 NFL draft because the Cowboys were not positive that Hill had recovered after the offseason. He also suffered from an infected blister in the same foot that kept him in the hospital for more than a month.beimgham, a man with an infected blister. He suffered with a back injury and didn't play much the remainder of the year, finishing with 577 passing yards and 3.8 yards per carry.
He suffered from a torn anterior cruciate ligament injury against the New York Giants in 1971, which was first diagnosed as a sprained knee. He played in six games and then returned to play in the NFC Championship, but he missed a touchdown, but his knee injury prevented him from playing again.
Hill was the first running back in franchise history to surpass the 1,000 yard mark in 1972, after the Cowboys traded Thomas to the San Diego Chargers, proving he could still run the football. He had 1,045 yards on a 4.2 yard average and six touchdowns. With 43, he also set a new club record for receptions. With 1,142 yards and six touchdowns, he set a new team record in 1973.
Hill was in Dallas for six years, assisting the Cowboys in winning Super Bowl VI and two NFC titles. He spent four Pro Bowls (1969, 1972, 1974, 1974), and two All-Pro teams (1969, 1973).
He was picked by The Hawaiians in the second round (14th overall) of the WFL Pro Draft in March 1974. Hill signed a World Football League deal on April 9, but he played in Dallas in 1974. In 1975, he played in three WFL games, carrying the ball 49 times for 218 yards and no touchdowns before suffering a torn medial collateral ligament injury in his right knee. He returned to the NFL after the league was cut off.
Hill became a free agent with the Washington Redskins on April 3, 1976, but he was unable to replicate his previous playing abilities. He ran for 558 yards and gained 25 passes in two seasons as a backup running back before announcing his retirement on August 7, 1978.
On September 25, 1978, the Cleveland Browns convinced him to resign and commit him to a deal. He spent four seasons mainly as a third-down running back before retiring at the end of the 1981 season.
Hill was a quarterback for six seasons, totaling 6,083 rushing touchdowns, 2,861 receiving yards, and 23 receiving touchdowns.