Running back Marshall Faulk, in his first year in St. Louis after spending 5 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts, won the NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award.

Running back Marshall Faulk won NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award for the third year in a row in 2001.

Six players have finished in the top three as freshmen or sophomores but never won a Heisman: Clint Castleberry, Marshall Faulk, Michael Vick, Rex Grossman, Larry Fitzgerald, and Adrian Peterson.

Warner was also named the NFL MVP for the second time in three seasons, giving the Rams their third winner in as many years ( running back Marshall Faulk won in 2000 ).

She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Separate Tables ( 1956 ); she won another Tony in that category for The Night of the Iguana ( 1962 ), playing the luminous Hannah Jelkes ( a role played by Deborah Kerr on film ) opposite Bette Davis's Maxine Faulk.

Faulk was a Texas-based radio personality who was blacklisted during the 1950s and won a lawsuit that helped restore his reputation.

Multiple-award winners include Marshall Faulk and Earl Campbell, both of whom won the award three times each, as well as Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders, Tom Brady, Terrell Davis, and Drew Brees, all two-time award winners.

Faulk finally won the case in 1963, in the meantime becoming a popular radio personality in his native Texas, and later, a national TV personality as a regular in the cast of the country music / humor variety show Hee Haw.

Faulk held the NFL record for yards from scrimmage in a single season until Tennessee's Chris Johnson broke it in 2009.

Warner finished the game with 22 of 33 pass completions for 212 yards and a touchdown, with no interceptions, while Faulk rushed for 159 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Faulk led the team with 76 rushing yards, and also caught 4 passes for 54 yards.

In its early years, it served as a grain and livestock center for the northern tier of Faulk County, South Dakota.

*** The St. Louis Rams, for Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk.

In 1942, Faulk joined the Merchant Marine for a one-year stint.

Upon his 1946 discharge from the Army, Faulk began his Johnny's Front Porch radio show for WCBS.

Faulk eventually went to another radio station, but returned to WCBS for a four-hour morning talk show.

The John Henry Faulk Show ran for six years.

Cactus Pryor met Faulk in the studios of KLBJ ( then KTBC ) where Faulk stopped by to thank Pryor for letting his mother hear his New York show.

The Pryor family and the Faulk family remained close and supportive of each other for the rest of Faulk's life.

* Faulk recorded his " Christmas Story " in 1974 for the NPR program " Voices in the Wind ".

* Faulk made speeches on the First Amendment and civil rights for many colleges and universities.

With the support of running back Marshall Faulk and wide receivers Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Az-Zahir Hakim, and Ricky Proehl, Warner put together one of the top seasons by a quarterback in NFL history, throwing for 4, 353 yards with 41 touchdown passes and a completion rate of 65. 1 %.

Smith was the team's leading rusher with 642 yards and 3 touchdowns, while Faulk rushed for 638 yards and caught 48 passes for 440 yards.

He gained acclaim for his role as President John F. Kennedy in a TV movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Missiles of October ( 1974 ), and again when he played blacklisted radio personality John Henry Faulk in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie, Fear on Trial ( 1975 ).

Marshall William Faulk ( born February 26, 1973 ) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League ( NFL ) for twelve seasons.

Faulk received an athletic scholarship to attend San Diego State University, and played as a running back for the San Diego State Aztecs football team.

Faulk responded by rushing for 1, 282 yards, 11 touchdowns, and one receiving touchdown.

The next season Faulk rushed for 1, 078 yards and 14 total touchdowns.

The Rams offense also racked up 24 points on 2 touchdown passes by Warner, a touchdown run by Faulk, and a field goal by Jeff Wilkins, helping St. Louis put the game away by the end of the third quarter.

This accomplishment was the second longest streak among active receivers ( Harrison, 139 ) and the third longest streak to begin a career among all players ( Marshall Faulk, 158 and Harrison, 139 ) at that time.

Following seven runs by Faulk for 27 yards, Warner completed a 21-yard pass to Torry Holt at the Eagles 19-yard line, setting up Wilkins ' third field goal to cut it to 17-16.

After Gramatica's field goal, they drove 74 yards in 16 plays before a fumbled handoff from Warner to Marshall Faulk on third down forced them to settle for a 24-yard field goal by Jeff Wilkins.

In 1943, Faulk spent the year in Cairo, Egypt serving the American Red Cross.

The next year was a miserable one for Faulk.

The problem in negotiations was the proposed fifth year, in which Faulk would get $ 7 million in salary and a $ 5-million roster bonus.

In his first year in St. Louis, Faulk was the catalyst for " The Greatest Show on Turf ", a nickname given to coordinator Mike Martz's aggressive Coryell-style offense.

The following year, Faulk became the first running back in NFL history to lead his team in receptions five separate seasons ( three in Indianapolis and twice in St. Louis ).

Faulk was about to enter the fourth year of his 1999 contract.

He then said that if the Rams would have him back, he would play next year, as he was able to run full speed on his re-built knees, however on March 26, 2007, Faulk announced his retirement from football.

Most who finished ahead of him in the Heisman voting either were seniors ( Ward, Glenn Foley, Johnson ) or gave up their amateur eligibility and declared early for the draft ( Heath Shuler, David Palmer, Marshall Faulk ), which made Wheatley one of the favorites for the award if he stayed in college for one more year.

The rivalry would in the following years be virtually negated by very poor play of he Colts ; the Colts would win just 117 games in the twenty-one seasons ( 1978 – 98 ) that bracketed their 1977 playoff loss to the Oakland Raiders and the 1999 trade of star running back Marshall Faulk ; this included a 0 – 8 – 1 record during the NFL's strike shortened 1982 season.

Two backs, fullback Larry Centers and halfback Marshall Faulk, rank among the NFL's top 20 pass catchers.

In 2010 on " NFL Network presents The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players ", Faulk was voted the number 70 player of all time.