Lenvil Elliott
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| Position: | Running Back | ||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | September 2, 1951 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Lexington, Missouri | ||||||||||||||
| Date of death: | October 12, 2008 (aged 57) | ||||||||||||||
| Place of death: | Richmond, Missouri | ||||||||||||||
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| College: | Northeast Missouri State University | ||||||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1973 / Round: 10 / Pick: 249 | ||||||||||||||
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| Rushing yards: | 1,900 |
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| Rush attempts: | 440 |
| Rushing TDs: | 8 |
| Receptions: | 159 |
| Receiving TDs: | 10 |
| Receiving yards: | 1,484 |
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Lenvil Elliott (September 2, 1951 – October 12, 2008) was a professional American football player who played running back for nine seasons in the National Football League. He was a part of the San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl XVI winning team.
Elliot was born in Lexington, Missouri to Lenvil Nelson and Helen Constance (Williams) Elliott. He grew up in Richmond, Missouri and was a 1969 graduate of Richmond High School, where he participated in both football and track.
His Richmond coach, Tom Adams, summed up Elliott's high school career reflecting on Elliott's final prep game by scoring all 19 points and running for 201 yards against a Slater team that had lost just one game: "It was a cold, nasty night and no one was real excited about playing," Adams said. "Slater scored first and we came back and scored as Lenvil had a remarkable run, 66 yards from the goal, but he went all over the field. I can remember watching the film over and over, and counting the number of times a Slater player touched or tried to tackle him. The last five yards to the end zone he drug or carried a couple of guys trying to get him down. He was not about to lose his final game in a Spartan uniform." Elliott was named to the All-State Team.
He attended Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) in Kirksville, Missouri, leading the Bulldogs to three consecutive Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) titles. He became a starter at running back as a sophomore and earned honorable mention All-MIAA honors. He was a second-team choice as a junior, and landed on the first team as a senior when he gained 1,138 yards rushing, an average of 113.8 yards per game.
His former coach, Russ Sloan, said Elliott was the first player he targeted upon taking over at the Kirksville school. "I thought at one point I had lost him to Texas-El Paso, but he called me at home and asked if he could still come to Northeast Missouri," Sloan recalled. "I cannot begin to describe how awesome Lenvil was in his first full contact scrimmage as a freshman. I knew then that he was special, and in my playing career at Missouri I had not seen a better back in The Big 8. Lenvil could do it all. He was a great runner, solid blocker and a superb receiver out of the backfield. His 40 time was 4.3, and rarely was the first tackler able to bring Lenvil down."
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