Hall of Fame
Russell Bulloch was lightning in a bottle for the Boll Weevil football team in the early 1950s. Bulloch was the backfield star of the 1953 team that won the first AIC championship in any sport in school history. The ’53 Weevils posted a 7-2 record for Coach Jim Benton while Bulloch earned All-AIC honors as a halfback while also returning kicks and punts and playing defensive back in the era of one-platoon football.
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Bulloch returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown against Southern State (now SAU) in 1952 and averaged 20.1 yards a return that season. In 1953 Bulloch rushed for 121 yards on just 14 carries in a 19-7 win over the College of the Ozarks and gained 115 yards on just 9 carries, including a 70-yard TD scamper, in a 31-14 win over Southern State that clinched the ’53 league title.
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