Sports Highlights Featuring Roosevelt Leaks

Duration: 0:00:11

Year Published: 1970s

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: A few highlights of Roosevelt Leaks’ college football career are captured in this short news clip. Leaks played for University of Texas from 1971 to 1974. He was the first All-American African American to play for the Longhorns and quickly became one of the nation’s best running backs. He would later play for the Baltimore Colts and Buffalo Bills. In this film we see an impressive tackle unfold. Leaks wears jersey number 46.