Calvin Hill our first 1000 yard rusher

[RaZon]

An Ivy Leagurer out of Yale, the first Cowboy to gain a 1000 yards in an NFL season.

While at Yale

He still holds the school record in the triple jump, that is the long jump. He was also a 9.6 sprinter.

Remember how he had that trip about jumping over tacklers, where there ya go....ha!!!!

 

[MichiganCowboyFan]

You're a 49ers fan, stop with the acting.

 

[Big D]

And my first favorite cowboy!

 

[RonnieT24]

I have to laugh when I see that picture of him jumping because if that's a home meet then I jumped in that same pit and ran on that same track.. and I can tell you first hand it SUCKED!!! That cinder track was HORRIBLY slow and I still can't fathom how Bob Hayes ran 10.01 on that crap. Also the stadium in New Haven was COLD year round. The meets I ran in there bout froze my butt off and they took place in late April. I also had a chance to run against future NYGiants safety Kenny Hill on that track.. He destroyed me.. but not just me.. he destroyed everybody .. LOL!

 

[Cowpolk]

And my first favorite cowboy!

For 6'4" 227 lbs. he was fast And Had Bob Hayes on the team with him

 

[RaZon]

You're a 49ers fan, stop with the acting.

And my first favorite cowboy!

Surprised my first favorite Cowboy Don Perkins never had a 1000 yard season despite rushing for over 6000 yards.

 

[ChuckA1]

A great runner and even better human being. He was a class act! Go Cowboys

 

[RaZon]

I have to laugh when I see that picture of him jumping because if that's a home meet then I jumped in that same pit and ran on that same track.. and I can tell you first hand it SUCKED!!! That cinder track was HORRIBLY slow and I still can't fathom how Bob Hayes ran 10.01 on that crap. Also the stadium in New Haven was COLD year round. The meets I ran in there bout froze my butt off and they took place in late April. I also had a chance to run against future NYGiants safety Kenny Hill on that track.. He destroyed me.. but not just me.. he destroyed everybody .. LOL!

Really, I'll be damn, that's cool.

But, as far as I know Hayes 100m PR was that 10.06 he ran on Tokyo dirt.

 

[RaZon]

For 6'4" 227 lbs. he was fast And Had Bob Hayes on the team with him

And Mel Renfro also a long jumper, hurdler and 9.6 sprinter. World ranked in the hurdles, ran a leg on a WR Oregon 440 relay team.

 

[ChuckA1]

Looks like the Cowboys are getting some speed guys on both sides of the ball. Go Cowboys

 

[Whirlwin]

Surprised my first favorite Cowboy Don Perkins never had a 1000 yard season despite rushing for over 6000 yards.

For me it was Bob Lilly no it was Roger. Maybe the manster. But I do know who my favorite football player of all time is. Sweetness. Well maybe troy Polamalu. Lol sweetness without a doubt

 

[Whirlwin]

For 6'4" 227 lbs. he was fast And Had Bob Hayes on the team with him

How the heck did you respond so fast. What do you have a gigabyte Internet

 

[RaZon]

For me it was Bob Lilly no it was Roger. Maybe the manster. But I do know who my favorite football player of all time is. Sweetness. Well maybe troy Polamalu. Lol sweetness without a doubt

Can't go wrong with any of those but you know that.

 

[RonnieT24]

Really, I'll be damn, that's cool.

But, as far as I know Hayes 100m PR was that 10.06 he ran on Tokyo dirt.

I'm sure I don't have to tell you that they screwed Hayes on that 10.06. All those shenanigans with conversions this and rounding that. For whatever reason they didn't want him to be the first man to officially break 10 seconds. Maybe because he was only a part time track man and it made full time track guys look bad? Maybe because he was too tan? I don't know.. I am still perplexed as to why the sub 10-second times he ran during his offseason participation in track and field were never ratified. It's all more than a little fishy to me.

 

[Cowpolk]

How the heck did you respond so fast. What do you have a gigabyte Internet

Close but not yet they are supposed to get me fiber optic AT&T

 

[RonnieT24]

Really, I'll be damn, that's cool.

But, as far as I know Hayes 100m PR was that 10.06 he ran on Tokyo dirt.

P.S. I may have lost the 100 and 200 that day but I did win the long jump..

 

[Whirlwin]

Close but not yet they are supposed to get me fiber optic AT&T

I have Verizon Vios just got it it’s super ridiculous fast

 

[Cowpolk]

I have Verizon Vios just got it it’s super ridiculous fast

There is less internet traffic in Idabel I think that helps my speed

 

[RaZon]

I'm sure I don't have to tell you that they screwed Hayes on that 10.06. All those shenanigans with conversions this and rounding that. For whatever reason they didn't want him to be the first man to officially break 10 seconds. Maybe because he was only a part time track man and it made full time track guys look bad? Maybe because he was too tan? I don't know.. I am still perplexed as to why the sub 10-second times he ran during his offseason participation in track and field were never ratified. It's all more than a little fishy to me.

A few things my friend, by 1964 Bob Hayes was a serious track guy and had been for a few years becoming the first 9.1 guy. He wasn't just a football guy anymore. And Eddie Tolan, Jesse Owens, Harrison Dilliard all black sprinters had won the Olympic gold before 1964. Doubt race was a factor at all especially in Japan.

I know of no sub 10.00 100m races for Hayes other than that windy 9.91 in those Olympic semi's. I do for know a fact he did run a couple WR 9.1's and not get credit for it, actually becoming a 9,3. Hayes only ran 100meters a few times here in the USA.

While in HS he lost the Florida State 100 yards champs to a kid named Jimmy "Peach Head" Douglas, yep, a red headed black guy. Douglas the only cat Hayes never revenged the loss. ya see before they ever hooked up again, Douglas was shot and killed in a gang related incident.

Jimmy Douglas, what could have been.

 

[RaZon]

P.S. I may have lost the 100 and 200 that day but I did win the long jump..

What was your PR?