John Brockington, an integral member of the “Super Sophomore” class that led Ohio State to the 1968 national championship and then became a star running back for the Green Bay Packers, died Friday at ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — John Brockington, a former All-Pro fullback who ranks fourth on the Green Bay Packers’ career rushing list, has died. He was 74. The Packers announced Brockington died Friday in San ...

Running back John Brockington was a key cog in the Green Bay Packers offense in the 1970s. He was the first running back in NFL history to rush for more than 1,000 yards in each of his first NFL ...

John Brockington, a former All-Pro fullback and member of the Green Bay Packers' Hall of Fame, has passed away Friday at the age of 74. Brockington earned All-Pro honors in 1971 while also winning ...

One of Ohio State’s “Super Sophomores” passed away on Friday. John Brockington, who helped the Buckeyes win a pair of national championships in 1968 and 1970 and earned All-American honors as a ...

The Green Bay Packers announced that former fullback John Brockington died Friday at the age of 74. Raised in Brooklyn, he was the ninth pick of the 1971 NFL Draft out of Ohio State. Brockington was ...

When he rushed for 1,144 yards in 1973, he became the first N.F.L. running back to gain more than 1,000 yards in each of his first three seasons. By The Associated Press John Brockington, a former All ...

John Brockington, a seemingly indestructible fullback when he took the NFL by storm in his first three seasons with the Packers, died Friday, March 31, in San Diego. Brockington was 74. Selected by ...

John Brockington believed in providence, that what happened to him — the football career, the illness, the kidney donation that was both a love story and a calling — happened for a reason. “I believe ...

Three years into his NFL career, John Brockington had accomplished something no other back in the history of the game had done, including three fullbacks from the two-platoon era already inducted at ...