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NFL Urban Legends: The Strange Case of the NFL's 1st 1,000-Yard Rusher

Editor's note: This is the third installment in Bleacher Report's series on NFL urban legends. Part 1 looked at Bo Jackson's hard-to-believe 40-yard-dash time, Part 2 at Ray Guy's purported helium-aided punts.

A two-sport college superstar whose NFL career was cut short by injuries did something unbelievable, but there were few witnesses, and skeptics think the whole thing might be either a misunderstanding or a hoax from a bygone era.

No, you did not just accidentally click back to the story about Bo Jackson's 40-yard dash. We're going way back to the 1930s for this investigation.