Jethro Pugh played college football at Elizabeth City State College.
12 Facts About Jethro Pugh
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Jethro Pugh played college football for the Vikings on offense and defense and became a two-time All-CIAA defensive end in 1963 and 1964.
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Jethro Pugh is one of five persons to have his jersey retired by the school, now Elizabeth City State University.
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Jethro Pugh was only 20 years old when he started his professional career as a backup defensive end for the Cowboys.
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Jethro Pugh played with the Cowboys for his entire career, from 1965 through 1978.
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Always a team player, Jethro Pugh carried on through the 1971 season with a case of appendicitis and delayed his surgery until the offseason, by taking shots of penicillin.
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When Jethro Pugh started, he had to compete for attention with future Hall of Famer Bob Lilly and George Andrie; when they retired, Jethro Pugh played in the same defensive line with College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy White, Harvey Martin, and Ed "Too Tall" Jones.
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Jethro Pugh led the Cowboys in sacks each season from 1968 to 1972 with a high mark of 15.5 in 1968, a team record that stood until 2010 when DeMarcus Ware reached six straight seasons, eventually leading the Cowboys in sacks from 2005 to 2012.
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Jethro Pugh showed financial acumen from an early age, when he had the Cowboys defer part of his compensation, which was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time he retired.
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Jethro Pugh owned a number of western-themed gift shops at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Texas.
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Jethro Pugh later partnered with The Parodies Shops which had businesses across the US and Canada.
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Jethro Pugh hosted an annual Jethro Pugh Celebrity Golf Tournament in Dallas to raise funds for the United Negro College Fund.