College Bradley Education Bradley University Role American football player | Name Harry Jacobs AFL All-Star 1965, 1969 Positions Linebacker | |
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Born February 4, 1937 (age 87)
Canton, Illinois ( 1937-02-04 ) Honors AFL Champion, 1964 and 1965 Records Most games played with same LB partners, 62
(John Tracey and Mike Stratton) 1960-1962
1963-1969
1970-1972 AFL Boston Patriots
AFL Buffalo Bills
NFL New Orleans Saints | ||
Former buffalo bill great and 2012 gbshof inductee harry jacobs
Harry Edwards Jacobs (born February 4, 1937) is a former American college and professional football player. A linebacker, he played college football for Bradley University and in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots from 1960 through 1962, and for the Buffalo Bills from 1963 through 1969.
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Jacobs played in the playoffs four straight years (1963–1966) with the Bills, and was an AFL All-Star in 1965 and 1969. With John Tracey and Mike Stratton he filled out one of pro football's best linebacking units, which played together for 62 consecutive games from 1963 through 1967, a professional football record. They helped the Bills' formidable front four hold opposing teams without a 100-yard rusher for seventeen consecutive games in 1964 and 1965, and achieved American Football League championships in both those years. He is one of only twenty players who played in the American Football League throughout its ten-year existence.