{"id":953,"date":"2021-07-19T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/?page_id=953"},"modified":"2021-07-19T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T18:20:11","slug":"bruce-taylor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/alumni\/hall-of-fame\/bruce-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/Bruce-Taylor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/Bruce-Taylor-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Taylor\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/Bruce-Taylor-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/Bruce-Taylor.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regarded as the best defensive back ever to play for Boston University, Bruce Taylor\u2019s career is a legend. The \u201cMost Valuable Player\u201d on Boston University\u2019s 1969 team that posted a regular season record of 9-1, Taylor led the team in scoring as a defensive back and led the nation in punt return average and punt returns for touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first defensive player in the nation selected in the professional draft in 1970 and went on to win \u201cDefensive Rookie of the Year\u201d in the National Football League as a regular with the San Francisco Forty-Niners.<\/p>\n<p>His collegiate honors included selection as the most outstanding football player in New England his senior year as well as All-East and All America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarded as the best defensive back ever to play for Boston University, Bruce Taylor\u2019s career is a legend. The \u201cMost Valuable Player\u201d on Boston University\u2019s 1969 team that posted a regular season record of 9-1, Taylor led the team in scoring as a defensive back and led the nation in punt return average and punt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/alumni\/hall-of-fame\/bruce-taylor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bruce Taylor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2500,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/953\/revisions\/955"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}