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6 unusual facts about Jim Brown


Carl Yastrzemski

"Yaz" attended Notre Dame on a basketball scholarship (his career Long Island high school scoring mark at Bridgehampton broke one previously held by Jim Brown) briefly before embarking on his baseball career.

Chuck Curtis

In the 1957 Cotton Bowl, Curtis threw two touchdown passes and ran for another TD to lead the Horned Frogs to a 28-27 win over Syracuse and standout running back Jim Brown.

Cle Shaheed Sloan

Sloan was introduced to the film industry by football legend Jim Brown, who helped him secure a job as an assistant when he was released from prison.

I Escaped from Devil's Island

Prison life on Devil's Island is no picnic so fellow prisoners Le Bras (Jim Brown) and Davert (Christopher George) go AWOL.

Orvis

His 1874 fly reel was described by reel historian Jim Brown as the "benchmark of American reel design," the first fully modern fly reel.

Take a Hard Ride

Pike (Jim Brown), the right-hand man of cattle rancher Bob Morgan (Dana Andrews), is entrusted with a mission to deliver $86,000 across the border to the Morgan Ranch in Sonora, Mexico after his boss dies.


Prime Time Sports

Among McCown's regular guest callers are boxing writer Bert Randolph Sugar and former football star Jim Brown, who played for McCown's hometown Cleveland Browns.

Rabbit Pack

The group of 12 included John Dante, Joe DeCarlo, Bernie Cornfeld, Shel Silverstein, Gene Schacove, Jim Brown, Lee Wolfberg, John Rockwell, Berry Gordy, Billy Eisenberg, Michael Trikilis, and James Caan.

Trimaran

The homebuilt cruiser movement survived his death in 1968, with designers Jim Brown, John Marples, Jay Kantola, Chris White, Norman Cross and Richard Newick bringing the trimaran cruiser to new levels of performance and safety.


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Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Notable people associated with the programme included Felicity Kennett, wife of the then Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett, and Jim Brown, a former Ten Eyewitness news journalist.