1. Clyde Lee Edward Grosscup was an American professional football quarterback in the National Football League.
23 Facts About Lee Grosscup
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Lee Grosscup played college football for the Washington Huskies and the Utah Utes and was selected by the New York Giants in the first round of the 1959 NFL draft.
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Lee Grosscup was raised in Santa Monica, and attended Santa Monica High School.
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Lee Grosscup played high school football under coach Jim Sutherland.
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Lee Grosscup was a quarterback for the University of Washington in Seattle in 1955.
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Lee Grosscup considered returning to Washington in 1956, to play under new coach Darrell Royal, but instead attended Santa Monica College for a year.
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Lee Grosscup then transferred to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1957, leading a passing offense under head coach Jack Curtice that was advanced for its time.
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Lee Grosscup considered Curtice a genius in developing the passing game.
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Monday Night Football broadcaster Al Michaels credits Lee Grosscup for developing the shovel pass or "Utah pass," although Lee Grosscup acknowledges that the play was used decades earlier in the 1920s.
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Lee Grosscup finished his junior season in 1957, completing 94 of 137 passes, passing for 10 touchdowns and a nation-leading 1,398 yards.
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Lee Grosscup came to national prominence in 1957 with a 316-yard passing game against Army.
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In 1958, Lee Grosscup passed for 828 yards, three touchdowns, and a 54.8 completion percentage.
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Lee Grosscup was first team All-Skyline Conference in 1957 and 1958.
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Lee Grosscup began the season as the starter, but missed six weeks with a knee injury.
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Lee Grosscup was cut on the final day of the 1963 preseason and signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League three days later.
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That same year, Lee Grosscup released his first book, entitled Fourth and One.
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Lee Grosscup was cut by the Raiders the following season and signed with the Hartford Charter Oaks of the newly formed Continental Football League, and became a player-coach.
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Lee Grosscup spent one season calling AFL games for NBC before beginning a twenty-year stint as a college football analyst for ABC, working alongside notable voices such as Bill Flemming, Chris Schenkel, Keith Jackson, Verne Lundquist and Al Michaels and Curt Gowdy.
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Lee Grosscup was the radio analyst for the Sacramento Gold Miners of the CFL during the 1993 and 1994 seasons.
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Lee Grosscup was a voter in the Harris Interactive College Football Poll.
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Lee Grosscup was a member of the California Golden Bears broadcast team for 32 years, including 17 years as a color analyst and 15 years as part of the team's postgame coverage.
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From 1986 to 2003, Lee Grosscup was the radio analyst for broadcasts alongside Joe Starkey.
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Lee Grosscup hosted the postgame radio show for Cal football games from 2004 until his retirement in 2018.