Fullback Marion Motley and nose tackle Bill Willis, two of the earliest African-Americans to play professional football, also joined the team in 1946.

Star defensive lineman Bill Willis also retired before the season.

* October 5 – Bill Willis, American football player ( died 2007 )

Willis starred alongside Bill Murray, Edward Norton, and Frances McDormand in Moonrise Kingdom ( 2012 ).

* Leo Willis ... Bill Corrigan

The region has been a seasonal home to the rich, famous, and powerful, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Zuckerberg, Mats Wilander, Warren Buffett, Walter Annenberg, Adam West, Ernest Hemingway, Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Miller, Demi Moore, Peter Cetera, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Ashton Kutcher, Richard Dreyfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Wynn, Justin Timberlake, Mohamed al-Fayed, Barbara Kent, Bill Gates, and Tony Robbins.

The orchestra received some notoriety with the world premiere of Bill McGlaughlin's Remembering Icarus, a tribute to local radio pioneer Ralph Willis Goddard, was performed by the LCSO on October 1, 2005.

At this same time BS & T were said to be recording tracks for an instrumental album with a personnel of Tony Klatka, Forrest Buchtell, Dave Bargeron, Bill Tillman, Larry Willis, Danny Trifan, Roy McCurdy and Mike Stern, but this album never materialized.

His first start would come against the AAFC's powerhouse, the Cleveland Browns, coached by Paul Brown, and a roster full of future hall of famers like Lou Groza, Bill Willis, and Otto Graham.

Saxophonist Tina Brooks, trumpeter Charles Tolliver, pianist Larry Willis, trumpeter Bill Hardman, and tubist Ray Draper were among those who benefited from McLean's support in the 1950s and 1960s.

DeBusschere, along with future HOFers Willis Reed, Bill Bradley and Walt Frazier became NBA champion when the Knicks defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1970 NBA Finals.

Drivers in the film billed in the opening credits include Dale Van Sickel, Reg Parton, Regina Parton, Tom Bamford, Bob Drake, Marion J. Playan, Hall Brock, Bob Hickman, Rex Ramsay, Hal Grist, Lynn Grate, Larry Schmitz, Richard Warlock, Dana Derfus, Everett Creach, Gerald Jann, Bill Couch, Ted Duncan, Robert Hoys, Gene Roscoe, Jack Mahoney, Charles Willis, Richard Brill, Roy Butterfield, Rudy Doucette, J. J. Wilson, Jim McCullough, Bud Ekins, Glenn Wilder, Gene Curtis, Robert James, John Timanus, Bob Harris, Fred Krone, Richard Ceary, Jesse Wayne, Jack Perkins, Fred Stromsoe, Ronnie Rondell, and Kim Brewer.

On October 30, 1977, Jerry Goldsmith ( Chris Hardwick ), Bill Hudley ( Rainn Wilson ), Mary Knowles ( Jennifer Jostyn ) and Denise Willis ( Erin Daniels ) are two couples out on the road in hopes of writing a book on offbeat roadside attractions.

The AAFC, which formed in 1946, was more proactive in signing black players ; in 1946, the Cleveland Browns signed Marion Motley and Bill Willis, and by the time the AAFC merged with the NFL in 1950, six of the league's eight teams had signed black players, most by the league's second season in 1947.

The 1942 team was the first composed mainly of players hand-picked by Brown, including Bill Willis, Dante Lavelli and star halfback Les Horvath.

Converted to defensive lineman while there, Sapp won the Bronko Nagurski Trophy ( best defensive player ), the Rotary Lombardi Award ( best lineman or linebacker ) and the Bill Willis Award ( best defensive lineman ) all in 1994.

* Bill Willis Award ( 1994 )

It includes a detailed history of Stephen Epler, the inventor of the sport and follows the life of Willis " Bill " Welsh who led a team from little Claremont, South Dakota to a national record for consecutive wins between 1947 and 1953.

In November 1995, the Dodgers traded Cairo with Willis Otañez to the Seattle Mariners for Mike Blowers, who then traded Cairo with Bill Risley to the Toronto Blue Jays for Edwin Hurtado and Paul Menhart in December 1995.

Willis David " Bill " Gradison Jr. ( born December 28, 1928 ) is an American politician, who served for almost two decades in the U. S. House of Representatives.

Future Cleveland Browns great and Pro Football Hall of Famer Marion Motley, who along with fellow Hall of Famer Bill Willis broke the color barrier in modern professional football with the Cleveland Browns in 1946, scored the first touchdown in the stadium in 1938.

He also won the Chuck Bednarik Award as the nation's top defensive player and the Lombardi Award as the best collegiate lineman and the Bill Willis Trophy as the nation's best defensive lineman.

* Bill Willis Trophy Winner ( 2001 )

Willis " Bill " Ballance ( October 27, 1918 in Peoria, Illinois – September 23, 2004 ), was an American radio talk show host.

They came within one strike of losing the World Series against the Boston Red Sox before a series of hits and defensive miscues ultimately led to an error by Boston's Bill Buckner which gave the Mets a Game 6 victory.

In a change that would prove crucial in the coming years, he was replaced by the team's defensive coordinator, Bill Parcells.

Following the season, the Giants fired first-year defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan, and replaced him with the former Buffalo Bills interim head coach, Perry Fewell.

Because of injuries to defensive linemen ( at the beginning of the season the Dolphins were down to four healthy defensive linemen ) defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger created what he called the " 53 " defense, in which versatile Bob Matheson ( number 53 ) would be used as either a defensive end in the standard 4-3 defense or as a fourth linebacker in a 3-4 defense, with Manny Fernandez at nose tackle.

As had been the case all day, Yepremian's kick was too low, and it was blocked by Washington defensive tackle Bill Brundige.

They were also depending on defensive ends Bill Stanfill and Vern Den Herder to contain Tarkenton's scrambling.

In 1974, however, their offense was hurt by injuries to Csonka and the offensive line, and the defense was hurt by the departure of defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger who became the New York Giants head coach.

The defensive game plan for the Giants, written by defensive coordinator Bill Belichick, has been included in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

In the off season, Parcells hired his old Giants defensive co-ordinator Bill Belichick in January 1996 as Assistant Head Coach and receivers position coach.

Then Patriot defensive coordinator ( and now head coach ) Bill Belichick is quoted as saying Parcells ' plans to leave for the Jets were a distraction, " Yeah, I'd say it was a little bit of a distraction all the way around.

Spearheaded by English and supported by the three new acquisitions and defensive specialists Bill Hanzlik and TR Dunn, the team replicated its success in the Western Conference despite the loss of Vandeweghe.

Several current players in the NFL attended Belleville High School, including former Michigan Wolverine and current Denver Bronco linebacker Ian Gold, Carolina Panther defensive tackle Kris Jenkins, his brother Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins, Buffalo Bill linebacker Kevin Harrison, and retired San Francisco 49er All-Pro linebacker Frank Nunley.

* Bill Duff ( born 1974 ), former NFL, NFL Europe, and Arena Football defensive tackle who co-hosted The History Channel series Human Weapon.

Examples include Bill Mazeroski, who is the only player in Major League Baseball history to end a seventh game of the World Series with a walk-off home run ( however, Mazeroski is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, due primarily to his status as one of the greatest defensive infielders of all time ); Paul Henderson, a Canadian ice hockey player who scored the deciding goal in the 1972 Summit Series ; Mike Jones, who tackled Kevin Dyson at the one-yard line on the final play of Super Bowl XXXIV ; and Jimmy Glass, an English football goalkeeper, who is remembered for scoring a goal in the last seconds of the final day of 1998-99 English Third Division that kept his club in The Football League.

Yzerman won numerous awards during his career, including the Lester B. Pearson Award in 1989, the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 1998, the Selke Trophy as the league's best defensive forward in 2000, and the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for perseverance in 2003.

Bill Romanowski, a business major, holds the defensive record as an NFL player for most consecutive games played at 243, is the only linebacker in history to start in 5 Super Bowls, and also shares a record as one of only three players in NFL history to win back to back Super Bowls with two different organizations, the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos.

Before the 1956 NBA Draft, Auerbach had already set his sights on defensive rebounding center Bill Russell.

It was decided by the founders of IDPA ( Bill Wilson, John Sayle, Ken Hackathorn, Dick Thomas, Walt Rauch and Larry Vickers ), which included some of the founders of IPSC, that IPSC competitions had become too far removed from the reality of defensive shooting situations, using extensively modified guns, handmade ammunition, and speed-draw holsters that were impractical for self-defense.

On the field, Hayden assembled a terrific coaching staff, bringing his assistant coaches with him from North Texas, including Bill Brashier, his defensive coordinator and a childhood friend from Eastland, Texas, and Bill Snyder, his offensive coordinator.