Re: fastest RB to 200-yard game "trivia"
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:38 pm
Answer #6 is Doug Martin, who ran for 251 yards and 4 TDs in Oakland in a Buccaneers 42-32 win over the Raiders in 2012.
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Correct, and sorry about the inaccurate total.Teo wrote:I remember Ottis Anderson's first career start against the Cowboys in 1979, he almost got to 200 yards (after checking, 193 yards). (Trivia question #5).
Correct!Teo wrote:
NOTE: After checking, it was Murray's 6th career game, and he only ran for 73 rushing yards combined in his first five games (Trivia question #2, the starting RB for Dallas was Tashard Choice).
Correct/half creditWendell02 wrote:One RB for question 3 is Earl Campbell, 199 vs. Miami on Monday Night, 1978. I have a MNF 25th Anniversary tape and Frank Gifford declared this game as the best one ever.
Correct!conace21 wrote:Eric Dickerson is the other answer to #3. He had back to back 190 yard games!
Correct on both playersSixtiesFan wrote:Tom Wilson, in his rookie season with the Rams set the record with 223 yards in 23 carries against the Packers in the final game of the 1956 season. It was the ninth game Tom Wilson played in that year.
Jim Brown set a new record for rushing yardage in a game the very next year in his rookie season. Brown gained 237 yards in 31 carries with 4 TDs in a win over ironically, the LA Rams. It was Week Nine of the 1957 season.
Correct!Teo wrote:Answer #6 is Doug Martin, who ran for 251 yards and 4 TDs in Oakland in a Buccaneers 42-32 win over the Raiders in 2012.
Correct!Wendell02 wrote:The answer to #1 is Bo Jackson, 221, Raiders-Seahawks, 11/30/1987.