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Title: "Fearsome Foursome", Lundy, Grier, Olsen and Jones
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1967
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
In 1963, the Rams traded for Rosey Grier, giving them a front quartet of (from left) Lamar Lundy, Grier, Merlin Olsen, and David "Deacon" Jones. The "Fearsome Foursome" became one of the NFL's most storied defensive lines, with Jones and Olsen creating constant havoc in opposing teams' backfields. Grier would figure in another L.A. story. While serving as Robert F. Kennedy's body-guard during the 1968 presidential campaign, he helped to subdue Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, at the Ambassador Hotel. Photo dated: September 9, 1967.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048943
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6946.
CARL0000052815
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17246
Subject: Grier, Rosey
Lundy, Lamar
Olsen, Merlin
Jones, Deacon,--1938-
Los Angeles Rams (Football team : 1946-1994)
Football--California--Los Angeles
Football players--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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