Jimmy Johnson (cornerback)

For other people named Jimmy Johnson, see Jimmy Johnson (disambiguation).

Jimmy Johnson

Johnson in January 2014

No. 37

Position:

Cornerback

Personal information

Date of birth:

March 31, 1938

Place of birth:

Dallas, Texas

Career information

College:

UCLA

NFL draft:

1961 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6

Career history

San Francisco 49ers (1961–1976)

Career highlights and awards

Career NFL statistics

Interceptions:	47
INT yards:	615
Touchdowns:	2
Player stats at NFL.com

Pro Football Hall of Fame

James Earl Johnson (born March 31, 1938) is a former American football cornerback who played for the San Francisco 49ers. In 1994, he was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He played both offense and defense as a college football player at UCLA where he was also a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and the school's Athletic Hall of Fame (1992).^[1]

His brother is Rafer Johnson, an Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist.

NFL career

Jimmy Johnson played NFL football for 16 years at multiple positions. He first played safety, then he moved to wide receiver, then back to safety, and finally to cornerback. During his career, he intercepted 47 passes and returned them for 615 yards. He also caught 40 passes for 690 yards (17.25 yards per. reception avg.).

Johnson was named in an article by Dan Wetzel as the best cornerback never to play in a Super Bowl.^[2]

References

↑ Pi Lambda Phi 2010 Membership Directory
↑ "Greatest players never to make the Super Bowl". Yahoo! Sports. 2009-07-22. Retrieved 2009-07-22.

External links

JimmyJohnson37.com
Pro Football Hall of Fame Jimmy Johnson profile

National Football League | NFL's 1970s All-Decade Team

1961 NFL draft first-round selections

Tommy Mason Norm Snead Joe Rutgens Marlin McKeever Mike Ditka Jimmy Johnson Tom Matte Ken Rice Bernie Casey Bobby Crespino Billy Kilmer Herb Adderley Bob Lilly Art Baker

San Francisco 49ers first-round draft picks

Nomellini Tittle McElhenny Babcock Stolhandske Faloney Moegle Morrall Brodie Pace Krueger Baker James Stickles Johnson Casey Kilmer Alworth Alexander Parks Willard Donnelly Hindman Spurrier Banaszek Blue Kwalick G. Washington Hardman Taylor Anderson Beasley Holmes Jackson Sandifer Webb MacAfee Bunz Cooper Stuckey Lott Shell Rice Barton Flagler DeLong D. Carter T. Washington Hall Stubblefield Kelly Young Floyd Stokes Druckenmiller McQuarters McGrew Peterson Plummer A. Carter Rumph Harris Woods Alex Smith V. Davis Lawson Willis Staley Balmer Crabtree A. Davis Iupati Aldon Smith Jenkins Reid Ward Armstead

AFC East BUF MIA NE NYJ North BAL CIN CLE PIT South HOU IND JAX TEN West DEN KC OAK SD NFC East DAL NYG PHI WAS North CHI DET GB MIN South ATL CAR NO TB West ARI LA SF SEA

San Francisco 49ers retired numbers

8 Steve Young 12 John Brodie 16 Joe Montana 34 Joe Perry 37 Jimmy Johnson 39 Hugh McElhenny 42 Ronnie Lott 70 Charlie Krueger 73 Leo Nomellini 79 Bob St. Clair 80 Jerry Rice 87 Dwight Clark

Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 1994

Tony Dorsett Bud Grant Jimmy Johnson Leroy Kelly Jackie Smith Randy White

Members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Players

Pre-modern era	Badgro Battles Baugh Canadeo Chamberlin Clark Conzelman Driscoll Dudley Edwards Flaherty Fortmann Friedman Grange Guyon Halas Healey Hein Henry Herber Hewitt Hinkle Hubbard Hutson Kiesling Lambeau Leemans Luckman Lyman McAfee McNally Michalske Millner Musso Nagurski Nevers Owen A. Parker Pollard Strong Stydahar Thorpe Trafton Turner Van Buren Wojciechowicz

Modern era	Adderley Aikman L. Allen M. Allen Alworth Atkins Barney Bednarik Bo. Bell Berry Bethea Bettis Biletnikoff Blanda Blount Bradshaw Brooks B. Brown J. Brown R. Brown T. Brown W. Brown Buchanan Buoniconti Butkus Butler Campbell Carson Carter Casper Christiansen Connor Creekmur Csonka Culp W. Davis D. Dawson L. Dawson Dean DeLamielleure Dent Dickerson Dierdorf Ditka Doleman Donovan Dorsett Eller Elway Favre Faulk Fears Ford Fouts Gatski George Gifford Graham Green J. Greene K. Greene Gregg Griese Grimm Groza Guy Haley Ham Hampton Hanburger Hannah Harris Harrison Hayes Haynes Hendricks Hickerson Hirsch Hornung Houston Huff Humphrey Irvin Jackson J. Johnson J. H. Johnson Joiner W. Jones D. Jones S. Jones Jordan Jurgensen J. Kelly L. Kelly Kennedy Kinard Krause Lambert Lane Langer Lanier Largent Lary Lavelli Layne LeBeau Lilly F. Little L. Little Lofton Long Lott Mack Mackey Marchetti Marino Martin Matson Matthews Maynard McCormack McDaniel McDonald McElhenny Mitchell Mix Monk Montana Moon Moore Motley Munchak Muñoz Namath Newsome Nitschke Nomellini Ogden Olsen Otto Pace Page J. Parker Payton Perry Pihos Randle Reed Renfro Rice Richter Riggins Ringo Roaf Robinson Robustelli B. Sanders C. Sanders D. Sanders Sapp Sayers Schmidt Seau Selmon Sharpe Shaw Shell Shields Simpson Singletary Slater B. Smith E. Smith J. Smith St. Clair Stabler Stallworth Stanfel Starr Staubach Stautner Stenerud Stephenson Strahan Swann Tarkenton C. Taylor J. Taylor L. Taylor D. Thomas E. Thomas T. Thomas Tingelhoff Tippett Tittle Trippi Tunnell Unitas Upshaw Van Brocklin Walker Warfield Waterfield Webster Wehrli Weinmeister Ra. White Re. White Wilcox Williams Willis L. Wilson Winslow Wood Woodson Wright Yary Young Youngblood Zimmerman

Coaches

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