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Lawrence Richard Csonka (born December 25, 1946) is an American former collegiate and professional running back in American football who played in the late 1960s and 1970s.
One of six children, Csonka was born in Stow, Ohio. He was raised on a farm in a Hungarian family in Stow, learning out of necessity to stoically endure injuries and pain. He weighed almost ten pounds at birth, 150 pounds at the age of 12, 237 pounds at the age of 16. He began his football career at Stow-Munroe Falls High School as the starting tailback on the 1963 Stow Bulldogs squad that won the Metropolitan League of the Akron, Ohio, area championship under coach Dick Fortner. He played for Stow from 1960–1963.
Csonka became a running back by accident. Because of his size, he played defensive end on the varsity team as a sophomore. In the last game that year, he was sent in as a substitute on the kickoff return team. The ball just happened to go to him and he took off running with it. Wrote Csonka,I ran over two tacklers before I realized what I was doing. I didn't score or save the game, but I got a tremendous feeling carrying the ball. I was thrashing around, trying to run six ways at once. I loved it. I knew then that I wanted to run with the ball. Even so, the next year Csonka had a tough time before the start of the season convincing his teammates and coaches that he could play running back. They said he was too big and too slow. But he did well in the first game of the season, and from then on no one doubted him.
Source: Wikipedia.org
Lawrence Richard Csonka (born December 25, 1946) is an American former collegiate and professional running back in American football who played in the late 1960s and 1970s.
One of six children, Csonka was born in Stow, Ohio. He was raised on a farm in a Hungarian family in Stow, learning out of necessity to stoically endure injuries and pain. He weighed almost ten pounds at birth, 150 pounds at the age of 12, 237 pounds at the age of 16. He began his football career at Stow-Munroe Falls High School as the starting tailback on the 1963 Stow Bulldogs squad that won the Metropolitan League of the Akron, Ohio, area championship under coach Dick Fortner. He played for Stow from 1960–1963.
Csonka became a running back by accident. Because of his size, he played defensive end on the varsity team as a sophomore. In the last game that year, he was sent in as a substitute on the kickoff return team. The ball just happened to go to him and he took off running with it. Wrote Csonka,I ran over two tacklers before I realized what I was doing. I didn't score or save the game, but I got a tremendous feeling carrying the ball. I was thrashing around, trying to run six ways at once. I loved it. I knew then that I wanted to run with the ball. Even so, the next year Csonka had a tough time before the start of the season convincing his teammates and coaches that he could play running back. They said he was too big and too slow. But he did well in the first game of the season, and from then on no one doubted him.
Source: Wikipedia.org
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