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Former WSU Cougar Jerome Harrison surpasses Jim Brown's rushing record
Walking with a cane, 73-year-old Jim Brown hurried downstairs Sunday to congratulate Jerome Harrison for rushing for 286 yards.
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Cleveland running back Jerome Harrison rewrote the Browns rushing record with 286 yards, surpassing Jim Brown's record of 237.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Walking with a cane, 73-year-old Jim Brown hurried downstairs Sunday to congratulate Jerome Harrison for rushing for 286 yards and erasing the Cleveland Browns record he had held since 1957.
"I made sure I came down early to be able to greet Mr. Harrison," said Brown, who is an executive adviser for the Browns. "These young people deserve credit when they do something that great, especially under these circumstances. My heart goes out to him. I respect him a lot."
In a 41-34 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, Harrison was one of two record-breakers for the lowly Browns. Joshua Cribbs had a 100-yard kickoff return in the first quarter and a 103-yarder in the second. On the first one, he broke about half a dozen tackles and set the NFL career record with his seventh TD return.
On the second, he was hardly touched while breaking his record that had stood for less than an hour.
"That's the way Josh has been his entire career," said linebacker Kaluka Maiava, one of Cribbs' blockers on the kickoff return team. "He's just an amazing athlete. When he broke the first one, as soon as he broke off that last little tackle, I knew he was gone. Having him return the ball makes it a lot easier to block. [Opposing tacklers] are real hesitant, they're not running down as fast because they're scared of Josh."
Harrison, who holds the Washington State record for rushing yards in a season, said he and Cribbs teased each other about personal accomplishments.
"For the past two, three weeks, me and Josh have had a personal vendetta against each other, like who's going to outperform each other," Harrison said. "He set the tempo. He set it very high. At halftime I said, 'I'm going to come and get you' and he just laughed. So I thought, 'I've got my work cut out trying to catch him.' "
But until Sunday, Harrison had never run for more than 121 yards in an NFL game.
In Cleveland's seven previous games, he had rushed for 73 yards.
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