Jim Nance, who held the single-season rushing record in the American Football League and gained more than 5,300 yards in a seven-year career with the New England Patriots, died Tuesday. He was 49.
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The team said Nance died at his home in Quincy, just outside Boston. The cause of death was not immediately announced, but Nance had a history of heart trouble and suffered a severe heart attack and stroke in 1983 that left him with a permanent limp.