Fullback (gridiron football) Fullback (gridiron football) A fullback (FB) is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback. Typically, fullbacks are larger than halfbacks and in most offensive schemes their duties are split between power running, pass catching, and blocking for both the quarterback and the other running back. Many great runners in the history of American football have been fullbacks, including Jim Brown, Marion Motley, Jim Taylor, Franco Harris, Larry Csonka, John Riggins, Christian Okoye, and Levi Jackson. However, many of these runners would retroactively be
Jim Brown old and just ending his elite career. Harris clocked in at 5.16 seconds, and Brown in at 5.72 seconds. In 1965, Brown was the first African-American to announce a televised boxing match in the United States, for the Terrell-Chuvalo fight, and is also credited with then first suggesting a career in boxing promotion to Bob Arum. Brown's autobiography, published in 1989 by Zebra Books, was titled "Out of Bounds" and was co-written with Steve Delsohn. He was a subject of the book "Jim: The Author's Self-Centered Memoir of the Great Jim Brown", by James Toback. In 1993, Brown was hired