MSU’s top 50 football players: No. 47 Bob Apisa

This is the fourth in a 50-day summer series counting down the top players in Michigan State football history, as I see them. As with last year’s MSU basketball top 50, the criteria is performance and impact at MSU only, professional career irrelevant. Have your own opinion? Leave a comment or tweet at me @Graham_Couch.

No. 47 - Bob Apisa

Fullback, 1965-67, Honolulu

The skinny: Apisa has been described as the godfather of the Hawaii pipeline that produced Polynesian football players Junior Seau, Troy Polamalu and Marcus Mariota. He is a legend on the Hawaiian islands. In the mid-1960s, he was also among the godfathers of the ball-carrying fullback in college football. In an era when fullbacks were primarily blockers, Apisa brought sprinter speed to the position, playing alongside — and blocking for — Clinton Jones. - Read more at LSJ.com