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- Carl Taseff is an American football player and assistant coach. Taseff played college football at John Carroll University and was the roommate of Don Shula. Taseff and Shula were teammates with the Browns (1951) and Colts (1953-56). Taseff later became a member of the coaching staff with Don Shula on the Dolphins (1970-1994).
Carl Taseff was drafted in the twenty-second round of the 1951 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns. After spending one season with the Browns, he went to the Baltimore Colts and played for them for nine seasons. While with the Colts he helped them win two NFL titles and played in the 1958 overtime title game against the New York Giants Football Team.
He set an NFL record with the Colts in 1959 by returning a blocked field goal 99 yards for a touchdown. He finished his professional playing career in 1962 with the American Football League's Buffalo Bills.
Carl Taseff was an assistant coach on the Detroit Lions in the mid-1960s. He then joined his old friend and head coach of the Miami Dolphins Don Shula as a defensive backs coach from 1970 to 1993.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bazza the Beast
- Led the NFL in Punt Return Yards in 1956(233).
- Led the NFL in Punt Returns in 1956(27) and 1958(29).
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