1. Sam Etcheverry is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, and in 2006, was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.
17 Facts About Sam Etcheverry
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Sam Etcheverry was the son of Basque sheep farmers who emigrated to New Mexico.
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In 1952, Sam Etcheverry joined the Montreal Alouettes of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union.
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In 1954, Sam Etcheverry was awarded the Schenley Award.
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Sam Etcheverry set a single-game passing record of 586 yards in 1954 that stood for 39 years until the 1993 CFL season.
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Sam Etcheverry set a season passing record in 1954 of 3,610 yards that was not only a CFL record but eclipsed the NFL record set in the 1947 NFL season by Pro Football Hall of Famer Sammy Baugh of the Washington Redskins.
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Sam Etcheverry led the CFL in passing from 1954 to 1959.
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Sam Etcheverry still holds the record for most passing yards in a Grey Cup game with 508 set in a loss to the Edmonton Eskimos in the 1955 game.
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Sam Etcheverry returned to Canada in 1964 as the head coach of the Quebec Rifles of the United Football League.
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The league folded at the end of the season and Sam Etcheverry remained out of coaching until 1967 when he became an assistant at Loyola College in Montreal.
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On December 9,1969, Sam Etcheverry was hired to coach the Alouettes.
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Sam Etcheverry resigned at the end of the 1972 CFL season.
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Sam Etcheverry was fired shortly before the start of the 1983 season and head coach Joe Galat replaced him as general manager.
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Sam Etcheverry was one of the group's representatives at the 1988 NFL owners meeting.
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Sam Etcheverry was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1969 and was an inaugural inductee into the University of Denver Athletics Hall of Fame upon its formation in 1996.
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In November, 2006, Sam Etcheverry was chosen 26th amongst the CFL's 50 Greatest Players in a TSN poll.
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Sam Etcheverry died of cancer in Montreal on August 29,2009.