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  Charlie Hennigan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charlie Hennigan was an (A game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays) American football player.
One of quarterback (Click link for more info and facts about George Blanda) George Blanda’s main targets, Hennigan was the first professional football player to catch more than a hundred passes in a single season (101 in 1964) and to twice gain over 1500 yards in pass receiving (1961 and 1964).
Hennigan was selected to the All-Time All-AFL second team, and is a member of the (Click link for more info and facts about American Football League Hall of Fame) American Football League Hall of Fame.
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 Charlie Hennigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After a promising rookie season, in 1961 he started all 14 games and established himself as a superstar in the AFL by gaining 1,746 yards receiving, a pro football record that stood for 34 years.
One of quarterback George Blanda’s main targets, Hennigan was the first professional football player to catch more than a hundred passes in a single season (101 in 1964) and to twice gain over 1500 yards receiving (1961 and 1964).
Hennigan was an American Football League All-star five straight years (1961 - 1965), and retired after the 1966 season.
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 Charlie Hennigan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After a promising rookie season, in 1961 he started all 14 games and established himself as a superstar in the American Football League by gaining 1,746 yards receiving, a record that stood for 34 years.
One of quarterback George Blanda’s main targets, Hennigan was the first professional football player to catch more than a hundred passes in a single season (101 in 1964) and to twice gain over 1500 yards in pass receiving (1961 and 1964).
Hennigan was selected to the All-Time All-AFL second team, and is a member of the American Football League Hall of Fame.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/charlie_hennigan   (254 words)

  
 Texas Sports News
Charlie Hennigan, one of the club's early receiving stars, was a high school biology teacher in Louisiana before he tried out and made the team in 1960.
Hennigan kept a pay stub in his helmet as a constant reminder that he made exactly $2,724.18 during his final year of teaching.
Hennigan believed his 1964 performance qualified him for a raise.
www.texnews.com /texsports97/oilers063097.html   (3890 words)

  
 Billszone: 1963 Buffalo Bills - Knocking on the Door
Oilers WR Charlie Hennigan closed out the first quarter scoring with a 15 yard TD pass.
Hennigan continued the Oiler onslaught with 2 more TD receptions in the second quarter, giving Houston a 28-20 halftime lead.
Hennigan would finish the day with 8 receptions, 123 yards and 3 scores.
www.billszone.com /mtlog/archives/2004/01/01/1963_buffalo_bills_knocking_on_the_door.php   (4215 words)

  
 NFL Football Tickets - Tennessee Titans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charles Hennigan scores first Oiler TD on a 43-yard pass from George Blanda.
Charlie Tolar gets 107 yards on 18 carries to become the first Oiler back to gain over 1,000 yards in a season.
October 13—In a 23-20 victory over the Jets at Giants Stadium, WR Haywood Jeffires ties Charlie Hennigan’s 30-year-old team record for receptions in a game with 13 (186 yards).
www.bargaintix.com /guide/nfl_football/tennessee_titans_tickets.shtml   (6665 words)

  
 Dallas Cowboys
The previous mark of 10 100-yard receiving games was set by Charlie Hennigan of the Houston Oilers in 1961.
In that loss to the Redskins, Irvin also broke his own team record for catches in a single season of 93 (in 1991).
He also saw his streak of seven straight 100-yard games come to an end in the loss to the 49ers - tying the NFL record for consecutive 100-yard games with Charlie Hennigan and Bill Groman who both established the mark while playing for Houston during the 1961 season.
www.texnews.com /cowboys/proirvin95.html   (645 words)

  
 Houston Oilers
With stars like Cannon and quarterback George Blanda, flanker Charlie Hennigan, running back Charlie Tolar, and guard Bob Talamini, they appeared in the first three AFL Championship games.
The Oilers won their AFL Eastern Division titles with offense, in 1961 scoring a professional football record 513 points with Blanda throwing for 3,330 yards and a record 36 touchdowns.
In 1962, the Oilers were the first AFL team to sign an active NFL player away from the other league, when wide receiver Willard Dewveall left the Bears to join the champion Oilers.
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 Hennigan happiness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Pro Log: "Dark Days in the Dome" by Bob Hulsey
Wide receiver Charlie Joiner would one day own the NFL career receptions mark - as a San Diego Charger.
Speedster Ken Burrough was acquired from New Orleans where he struggled early.
Jim Beirne and Charlie Joiner led the team in receptions.
www.houstonprofootball.com /log/log3.html   (1246 words)

  
 Team - Pro Football Hall of Fame
In the 1960s, Blanda was a big-yardage maker with his throws to receivers like Charlie Hennigan, who caught a then-record 101 passes in the 1964 season.
The Oilers of the 1980s and early 1990s were powered by quarterback Warren Moon and a host of outstanding receivers.
First Regular-Season Touchdown: A 43-yard pass from Hall of Fame QB George Blanda to Charlie Hennigan vs. the Oakland Raiders, 9/11/60.
www.profootballhof.com /history/team.jsp?franchise_id=31   (978 words)

  
 chanart1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This caused the Seagram’s people to bestow upon him their Seven Crowns of Sports award as the outstanding player in the National Football league, the first time a wide receiver had been so designated.
With the single season record for yardage being 1,746 (Charlie Hennigan, Houston, 1961), it doesn’t take an accountant to understand what Chandler might have accomplished in a full 16-game schedule.
Charlie Joiner runs pass routes more crisply than I do.
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 Jaguars at Lions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Jaguars offense set season highs in first downs (27), passing yards (298) and total yards (424) and tied the mark for passing first downs (16).
Lions notes: Receivers Herman Moore and Brett Perriman are 95 receiving yards away from breaking the NFL combined receiving record of 2,921 yards set by the Houston Oilers combo of Charlie Hennigan (1,746) and Bill Groman (1,175) in 1962.
If Perriman, who has 97 receptions, reaches 100 catches, he and Moore (108 catches) would be the first NFL teammates to each get 100 receptions in a season.
www.jsonline.com /packer/arc/1214/prev/jags-lions.html   (237 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
They scored an important victory over the NFL when they signed LSU's Heisman Trophy winner, All-America running back Billy Cannon.
After winning the first-ever AFL championship over the Los Angeles Chargers in 1960, they repeated over the same team (then in San Diego) in 1961.
Billy Cannon (born 1937, made All-League as a halfback in 1961 and as a tight end in 1969)
www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Houston_Oilers   (955 words)

  
 Tennessee Titans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cannon joined other Oiler offensive stars such as quarterback George Blanda, flanker Charlie Hennigan, running back Charlie Tolar, and guard Bob Talamini.
After winning the first-ever AFL championship over the Chargers in 1960, they repeated over the same team in 1961.
Charlie Hennigan (born 1935, first professional football player to catch more than 100 passes in a season (Oilers, 1964))
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 Jud Hale known for his caring ways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Because of his love for and his ability to play football, he was awarded a football scholarship to Northwestern.
There here played in the backfield, as a left halfback, Charles Tolar was fullback, and Charlie Hennigan was right halfback.
You can see that he played with some of the football greats, with his two backfield mates going on to play professional football with the Houston Oilers.
www.press-herald.com /cameos/2005/0309cameos.html   (1736 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Back in the Game
It also had a wide receiver named Charlie Hennigan who had been a Louisiana school teacher.
Inside his head gear, Hennigan had taped a copy of his teacher's paycheck.
When he was looking for inspiration as a football player, he would refer to it.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nfl/20040126-9999_mz1s26backpg.html   (1080 words)

  
 CNN/SI - NFL Football - Houston wins NFL's 32nd franchise - Wednesday October 06, 1999 11:22 PM
Others wondered why the city failed to show similar support for the Oilers, whose owner, Bud Adams, moved his franchise after being denied a new stadium.
"I think a lot of fans still regret there's no more Houston Oilers," said former Oiler receiver Charlie Hennigan, 64, who in 1960 scored the Oilers' first touchdown.
But even Hennigan, who says his heart belongs to the Titans, was pleased by Wednesday's announcement.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/nfl/news/1999/10/06/houston_nfl_ap   (580 words)

  
 ESPN.com: 49ers era was Rice era
In 1994, he passed Jim Brown to become the league's all-time touchdown leader with 127.
The following season, he broke Charlie Hennigan's 34-year-old record for single-season receiving yards (1,746) with 1,848.
He also set the career receiving yardage record that year, going to 14,040 yards with a 108-yard day against the Saints.
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 Pocono Record Online: Houston Oilers' first head coach dies at 78   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Coach Paul Brown once called him the "best pass protector I've ever seen." Rymkus went on to play for the Cincinnati Bengals and coached for the Packers and Rams.
Rymkus' first Oilers team included players such as George Blanda, Billy Cannon and Charlie Hennigan, who helped win two championships and led Houston to a third AFL title game.
Rymkus returned to the Oilers as offensive line coach in 1965 at the request of Sammy Baugh, who led the team for a year before stepping aside.
www.poconorecord.com /1998/sports/national/tjd90701.htm   (372 words)

  
 The Dream Season: "Week 17: For Those Left Behind"
Most Receptions, One Game: (tie) Charlie Hennigan and Haywood Jeffires, 13
Most Yards, One Game: Charlie Hennigan, 272 (10/13/61)
The Houston Oilers never beat the Carolina Panthers, New York Giants or Philadelphia Eagles.
www.houstonprofootball.com /dream/week17.html   (1075 words)

  
 Week 7 Highlights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dassler would later toss a 40-yard TD to Weathers to make it 7-0 and the Buckets never looked back, rolling to a big victory- including 3 picks off Orlando QB Winston Romberg.
Buckets CB3 Bobby Watkins comes back from several weeks of injury to make this pick late in the 1st Quarter, the first of 3 interceptions of Viper QB Winston Romberg.
L.A. QB2 Randy Maitland finds rookie WR Charlie Hennigan wide open on this rollout for a 25-yard TD to make it 17-0.
rccenterprises.com /Buckets/NSFL/2006/2006-week-7-pix.htm   (497 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The American Football League: A Year-By-Year History, 1960-1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The strength of this work is in Gruver's recognition that the players made the league.
Gruver describes the League's innovations on the field and off and the details behind the 1966 merger (who'd have thought that placekicker Pete Gogolak was instrumental in hastening the process?).
If Cookie Gilchrist, Abner Hayes and Charlie Hennigan are just names in a record book to you and you love pro football, get this book.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786403993   (1406 words)

  
 Sporting News, The: Century Club - professional football players who have caught 100 or more passes in single season - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Smith, who has 79 catches, and McCaffery, with 77, would become the 17th and 18th players to catch 100 passes since 1990, an achievement rarely attained before then.
(Buffalo's Eric Moulds is on pace for a 112-catch season.) Only three players--Lionel Taylor (1961), Charlie Hennigan (1964) and Art Monk (1984)--caught 100 or more passes in a season before 1990.
Since '90 four players have caught 100 passes in a season more than one time (Jerry Rice 4, Moore 3, Cris Carter 2, Sterling Sharpe 2) and 14 players have done it once.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_49_224/ai_68018801   (920 words)

  
 Billszone: Bills 48, Oilers 17 Oct 11, 1964
After a three-and-out by the Oilers, LB John Tracey cruised in unmolested on Oiler punter Jim Norton and blocked the kick- setting up a quick Pete Gogolak FG to close the half out with a huge 31-10 Bills lead.
Blanda tried to ignite the Oilers with a 53 yard bomb to Charlie Hennigan on the second play of the second half.
Buffalo would score 17 more points in garbage time to close out the game 48-17.
www.billszone.com /mtlog/archives/2004/07/02/bills_48_oilers_17_oct_11_1964.php   (699 words)

  
 Ben Maller : Archives - October 10, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Phillies will interview Don Baylor, Charlie Manuel and Grady Little for their managerial opening this week.
Rams receiver Isaac Bruce has four consecutive 100-yard games to start the season, the first time a player has done that since the Houston Oilers' Charlie Hennigan in 1963.
The 49ers and Dolphins are celebrating the 20-year anniversary of Joe Montana vs. Dan Marino in the Super Bowl by competing for the first pick in next year's draft.
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 Charlie's Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For those of you who live in Boston, you should know that tomorrow (WEDNESDAY) at 7 pm on WGBH Channel 2 is the ONLY televised mayoral debate for the upcoming November election.
It's a special edition of Greater Boston that will be a town-hall style debate between Mayor Menino and challenger Maura Hennigan.
For more information about the program, including replay dates and times, see the WGBH website.
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 December 2003 Starfields. The monthly newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wed, December 4 (cloud dates Thurs Dec 4 or Tues Dec 9 or Wed, Dec 10) Time 7:00-8:00pm - Hennigan Elementary School, 200 Heath St., Jamaica Plain in Boston.
Eileen was even able to catch glimpses of the moon.
Thanks go to Eileen Myers and Charlie McDonald.
www.atmob.org /news03/Dec03.html   (2600 words)

  
 HoustonChronicle.com - Oilers crept into Houston with little fanfare
He was coaching the offensive line for the Los Angeles Rams when he got the Houston job.
Besides Cannon and Blanda, the Oilers were stocked with talented players, such as Charlie Hennigan, Bill Groman, Bob Talamini, Charlie Milstead, Al Jamison, Orville Trask and Jim Norton
The team opened the season on Sunday, Sept. 11, 1960.
www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/first100/947497   (1222 words)

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