Word: slasher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Which is the perfect way to describe Jimmy Brown. "At Syracuse," says Jimmy, "I was a slasher, a leveler. When I became a pro, I really became conscious of technique. I had to. In college you're running against a 230-lb. defense. But the pros are 260-pounders, and you're not going to run over them very often." By his own definition, Brown is an unorthodox runner: rather than depend on a play working out the way the diagram says it should, he relies on his instinct to sense the spot where a hole is about...