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What running backs rushed for 1000 yard seasons college football

Submitted by fortheinfo on Fri, 2007-10-05 22:35.

Only two players in major-college history have rushed for 1,000 or more yards in all four of their varsity seasons. Pittsburgh's Tony Dorsett was the first to turn in such a performance, surpassing the 1,000-yard mark from 1973 through 1976.

In the first year after Dorsett's departure from the collegiate ranks, North Carolina's Amos Lawrence began a 1,000-yards-a-season streak that ran through 1980. The year-by-year rushing figures for Dorsett, who averaged 5.7 yards per carry in his Panther career, and Lawrence, who averaged five yards per attempt for the Tar Heels:

DORSETT        
1973    288    1586    
1974    220    1004    
1975    228    1544    
1976    338    1948    
          1074    6082    

LAWRENCE
1977    193    1211
1978    234    1043
1979    225    1019
1980    229    1118
            881    4391