Gary Allen (Canadian football)
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| Position: | Running back | ||||
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April 23, 1960 Baldwin Park, California |
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| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||
| Weight: | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||
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| High school: | Baldwin Park (CA) | ||||
| College: | Hawaii | ||||
| NFL Draft: | 1982 / Round: 6 / Pick: 148 | ||||
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| CFL status: | International | ||||
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| Games played: | 30 |
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Gary Eugene Allen (born April 23, 1960) is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Houston Oilers and Dallas Cowboys. He also was a member of the Calgary Stampeders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League. He played college football at the University of Hawaii.
Allen attended Baldwin Park High School, where he practiced football and track.
He accepted a football scholarship from the University of Hawaii, where he was initially recruited to play wide receiver. During a bye-week scrimmage between backups and redshirts in his freshman season, the team was short at running back and he was temporarily used at the position for depth purposes. After showing his running skills and dominating the practice, he was permanently switched and was named the starter against the University of the Pacific, where he ran for 92 yards. He finished his freshman year with a school record 521 rushing yards in half a season.
Though there were concerns about his size, his open-field elusiveness and strength made him one of the top players in the Western Athletic Conference. He ran from the I formation and was teamed with fullback David Toloumu. He also was a teammate of Mark Tuinei and Jesse Sapolu.
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