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Larry Richard Csonka (/ ˈ z ɒ ŋ k ə /; born December 25, 1946) is an American former professional football fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Miami Dolphins for the majority of his career, along with the New York Giants for three years.
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The toughest man on the field was Larry Csonka, Don Shula's kind of ballplayer, who pounded and pulverized the Vikings into Rice Stadium's Astro Turf.
RB Larry Csonka, Syracuse (1965-67) In ‘66 & ‘67, logged back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons and earned All-America honors 1967 ECAC Player of the Year Career, averaged 4.9 ypc. & scored 19 TDs#CollegeFootball Hall of Famer pic.twitter.com/tQZ7EDyLZ3
Larry Csonka, a classic 6-3, 235-pound line-smashing fullback, provided the major rushing thrust in the Miami Dolphins' vaunted ball-control offense when the team was dominating the National Football League in the early 1970s.
Csonka was the #1 pick by the American Football League’s Miami Dolphins in the 1968 Common Draft, the eighth player and first running back drafted in the first round. Shula Creates A Monster. From 1970 – 1974 Csonka never missed a game, and led the Dolphins in rushing on into 1975.
Larry Csonka is an American gridiron football player who won two Super Bowls (1973, 1974) playing for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL) and was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl VIII. Csonka was an All-American fullback at Syracuse University, where he was noted for.
In three years, 1965-1967, he ranked 19th, 9th and 5th in the nation in yards gained by rushing. Before Csonka, Syracuse had a history of champion runners - Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Jim Nance, Floyd Little. Csonka broke their records. He ran for 2,934 yards, a school record that lasted 14 years.
Miami Dolphins running back Larry Csonka rushes in for a 5-yard touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl VIII.
Larry Csonka is one of the strongest men ever to play football, but he didn't try the weight lifting routine in the gym. "I had my own body-building program. I grew up on a farm," he has said. "I picked corn, shoveled dirt, baled hay, milked cows, and every day I ran two miles home for supper." The farm was at Stow, Ohio.
