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A ferocious pass-rusher, Philbin recorded 14½ sacks of opposing quarterbacks in 1968, helping the Jets win the AFL Championship.
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He was the core of a ferocious Gators defense and finished his college career with 343 tackles, fifty-eight tackles for a loss, and twenty-three quarterback sacks.
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Atwater and Dennis Smith made up a Broncos secondary that was known for their ferocious hits on opposing players.
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The Lions then held off a ferocious South African fightback, Lawrence Dallaglio putting in a magnificent try-saving tackle, to win the match 18 – 15 and take the series.
Always will I think that the really courageous man, no matter how ferocious and filled with the killing instinct and eager to win he may be, is willing to let up on a beaten foe and not punish needlessly or wantonly .”
The Lions then held off a ferocious South African fightback, Lawrence Dallaglio putting in a magnificent try-saving tackle, to win the match 18-15 and take the series.
ferocious and Championship
But two wins in the 11-race Championship, at Monte Carlo and the ferocious Nürburgring ( the Green Hell ), and a series of strong points finishes, gave Hulme the advantage.
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He even hunted elephant, although the Asian elephant is not quite as ferocious as his African cousin.
`` Of course, I agree with the Captain '', Gansevoort said thoughtfully, `` but the conspiracy is ferocious and desperate.
Guards watched throughout the night, except at Alexander's bedchamber, which was at the top of a ladder with a ferocious chained dog guarding the door.
Count Jean d ' Arco had been sent with 12, 000 men from the Franco-Bavarian camp to hold the town and grassy hill, but after a ferocious and bloody battle, inflicting enormous casualties on both sides, Schellenberg finally succumbed, forcing Donauwörth to surrender shortly afterwards.
A member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d ' Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966, he played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts and passing abilities from midfield and his ferocious long-range shot.
During a ferocious battle, Teach and several of his crew were killed by a small force of sailors led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
Despite his ferocious reputation though, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.
The Cimbri are depicted as ferocious warriors who did not fear death.
After a ferocious battle with his former master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin is left for dead beside a lava flow on Mustafar, and is outfitted with an artificial life support system as well as robotic arms and legs.
Throughout the life of the ST and Amiga platforms, a ferocious Atari-Commodore rivalry raged.
The film was James Stewart's first western ( he would not return to the genre until 1950, with Broken Arrow and Winchester 73 ), and was also notable for a ferocious cat-fight between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel, which apparently caused a mild censorship problem at the time of release.
It is here that their series of famous adventures begin, starting with Don Quixote's attack on windmills that he believes to be ferocious giants.
* Wadl and Hexl, Kaiser Wilhelm II's famous ferocious pair.
Roman military discipline was ferocious ; severe enough to provoke mutiny, despite the consequences.
The stalemate lasted from 1914 until early 1918, with ferocious battles that moved forces a few hundred yards at best along a line that stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
After the surrender of the Italian Army in September 1943, Albania was occupied by the Germans and soon exploded into a ferocious guerilla war.
Cúchulain, a name which translates literally as " hound of Culain ", gained his name when as a child, known then as Setanta, he slew the ferocious guard dog of Culain forcing him to offer himself as a replacement.
She went on hunting tours with her husband, and on more than one occasion shot and killed ferocious tigers.
Jahangir arrived with a force of 12, 000 after many ferocious encounters and the Battle of Orchha, Jahangir finally subdued the Bandela and ordered Vir Singh Deo to surrender.
The Democrats held large majorities in each house, and Stephen Douglas, " a ferocious fighter, the fiercest, most ruthless, and most unscrupulous that Congress had perhaps ever known " led a tightly disciplined party.
Pasiphaë nursed him in his infancy, but he grew and became ferocious, being the unnatural offspring of man and beast, he had no natural source of nourishment and thus devoured man for sustenance.
The reliefs by European sculptors present versions of the Europeans and the Native Americans, in which the Europeans appear refined and the natives appear ferocious.
Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine declared that PE " brought in elements of free jazz, hard funk, even musique concrète, via producing team the Bomb Squad, creating a dense, ferocious sound unlike anything that came before.
* The Horibs-A race of ferocious dinosaur-riding reptile men.
James S. Packer described him as malignant and ferocious, slaughtering his enemies with a private army, while Walter Ullmann described Sergius as a typical representative of the House of Theophylact, concerned with power and sexual liaisons.
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By that time, he was quite slow, not a big threat as a pass-rusher, but very stout against the run, rarely out of position, and quick to seize opportunities for turnovers.
His techniques and style of play were emulated by other teams, and his versatility as a pass-rusher and coverage man influenced the development of the modern-day linebacker position.
A versatile defensive player, Haley began his career as a specialty outside linebacker, eventually progressing to pass-rusher and finally full-fledged defensive end.
During his career, he was noted for being effective against the run and a relentless pass-rusher.
While he didn't call the plays and run the defense like fellow linebacker Mike Singletary did, he was possibly the Bears ' most feared pass-rusher and the most intimidating player when he lined up in the 46 defense.
Philbin and 1968
In the spring of 1968, Terry Luttrell became lead singer, and Bob Crownover and Gregg Philbin replaced Matt and Blair.
Philbin and UB's Willie Ross were the first two UB graduates to play on professional football championship teams in the United States: Ross with the 1964 AFL Champion Buffalo Bills ; and Philbin with the 1968 AFL Champion New York Jets, who also won that season's AFL-NFL World Championship Game ( Super Bowl III ).
Philbin and Jets
: Gerry Philbin, DT ( New York Jets ) 1974
In the third AFL-NFL World Championship Game, Philbin anchored the Jets defense in limiting the Colts to seven points.
Several UB football stars from the 1950s and early 1960s went on to play professional football, including quarterback John Stofa with the American Football League's Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals, and defensive lineman Gerry Philbin with the AFL's New York Jets.
Parilli signed a number of former Super Bowl III Jets including wide receiver George Sauer, who was coming out of retirement after three years, and former All-Pro defensive men Gerry Philbin, as well as John Elliott.
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