Ickey Woods
| No. 30, 31 | |||||||||
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| Position: | Running back | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | February 28, 1966 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Fresno, California | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 232 lb (105 kg) | ||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||
| High school: | Fresno (CA) Edison | ||||||||
| College: | Nevada–Las Vegas | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1988 / Round: 2 / Pick: 31 | ||||||||
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| Rushing yards: | 1,525 |
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| Average: | 4.6 |
| Touchdowns: | 27 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Elbert L. "Ickey" Woods (born February 28, 1966) is a former American football fullback who played his entire NFL career (1988 to 1991) with the Cincinnati Bengals. He played college football at UNLV. He is best remembered for his "Ickey Shuffle" end zone dance, performed each time he scored a touchdown. After an amazing rookie season, in which he led the NFL in rushing touchdowns, a series of injuries shortened his NFL career and he was forced to retire after just four years.
Elbert Woods was given the nickname "Ickey" based on his little brother's pronunciation of his given first name, which sounded like "E-E." He attended Edison High School in Fresno, California, where he played sports. He received one college football scholarship, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a four-year letterwinner for the UNLV Rebels. As a freshman in 1984, the Rebels, led by future NFL star quarterback Randall Cunningham, went 11-2 and won the California Bowl 30-13 against the Toledo Rockets of the University of Toledo, a game in which Woods rushed nine times for 53 yards and one touchdown.
In his senior year of 1987, he broke out and led the nation in rushing with 1,658 yards, with 6.4 yards per attempt. That total remains the second-most in UNLV history, and he still holds the school record in single-game rushing attempts with 37 in two different games. In one of those games, he ran for a personal-best 265 yards against the University of the Pacific. He rushed for more than 100 yards in nine games, and more than 200 three times, in 1987, and was named first-team All Big West. He was inducted into the UNLV Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998.
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