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James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown (born February 17,
1936) is an American professional football player
and actor. He is best known for his exceptional
and record-setting career as a fullback for the
NFL Cleveland Browns, for which he was inducted
into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is also a
member of the College Football Hall of Fame and
the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, one of the few athletes
to be a member of more than one type of hall of
fame.

Brown earned 13 letters at Manhasset High School
playing football, baseball, basketball, lacrosse,
and running track.

Brown was an All-American at Syracuse University
in both football and lacrosse; many who saw him
play lacrosse still consider him the greatest
player ever in that sport. The rule requiring
lacrosse players to keep their sticks in motion
when carrying the ball was implemented to slow
Brown down.

He ended his career in the NFL in 1966 with more
yardage than any other rusher in NFL history and a
single-season rushing yardage record (both records
have since been surpassed several times). He still
holds the career record for yards per carry, and
is the only rusher in NFL history to average over
100 yards per game for a career. In 1964, Jim
Brown won the Hickok Belt as top professional
athlete of the year.

    "He told me, Make sure when anyone tackles
you he remembers how much it hurts. He lived by
that philosophy and I always followed that
advice." - John Mackey, 1999

The outspoken NFL Hall of Fame running back
retired abruptly from football at the age of 29 to
pursue a career as an actor. Brown starred in the
1970 movie ...tick...tick...tick..., as well as in
numerous other features, such as The Dirty Dozen
(1967).

Brown currently works with kids caught up in the
gang scene in Los Angeles through the Amer-I-Can
program, which he founded in 1988. It is a
self-esteem-building organization that operates in
inner cites and prisons.