Rufus Crawford is an American actor and retired football player who was a running back for the

Hamilton Tiger-Cats The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Tim Hortons Fiel ...

from 1979 through 1985. He broke the

Canadian Football League The Canadian Football League (CFL; french: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. The league consists of nine teams, each located in a ...

yardage record which had stood for 28 years. He started his career in the

NFL The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the maj ...

with the

Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West, which they rejoined in 2002 a ...

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* 1955 births Living people American players of Canadian football American football return specialists Canadian football running backs Seattle Seahawks players Hamilton Tiger-Cats players Virginia State Trojans football players People from Gastonia, North Carolina Players of American football from North Carolina {{Canadianfootball-runningback-stub