1. Samuel Adrian Baugh was an American professional football quarterback who played 16 seasons with the Washington Redskins of the National Football League.
28 Facts About Sammy Baugh
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Sammy Baugh played college football for the TCU Horned Frogs, where he was a two time All-American prior to being selected by the Redskins in the first round of the 1937 NFL draft.
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Sammy Baugh played as a punter and safety, leading the NFL in punting average five times and in defensive interceptions with 11 in 1943.
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Sammy Baugh was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and was named to the NFL's 75th and 100th Anniversary All-Time teams.
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Sammy Baugh was born on March 17,1914, in Temple, Texas, the second son of James, a worker on the Santa Fe Railroad, and Lucy Sammy Baugh.
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About a month before he started at Washington State Sammy Baugh hurt his knee while sliding into second base during a game, and the scholarship fell through.
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Sammy Baugh finished fourth in voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1936.
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Sammy Baugh was a baseball player at TCU, where he played third base.
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Sammy Baugh was then sent to the International League's Rochester, New York Red Wings, St Louis's other top farm club.
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Sammy Baugh signed a one-year contract with the Redskins and received $8,000, making him the highest-paid player on the team.
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Sammy Baugh's 335 passing yards remained the most ever in a playoff game by any rookie quarterback in NFL history until Russell Wilson broke the record in 2012.
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Sammy Baugh had what many consider to be the greatest single-season performance by a pro football player during 1943 in which he led the league in pass completions, punting and interceptions.
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Sammy Baugh was selected as an All-Pro tailback that year.
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Sammy Baugh threw 11 touchdown passes and only four interceptions.
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Sammy Baugh and I roomed together, and he was a football man.
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Sammy Baugh knew football, played it, and everybody had a lot of confidence in him.
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Sammy Baugh won numerous NFL passing titles and earned first-team All-NFL honors four times in his career.
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Sammy Baugh completed 1,693 of 2,995 passes for 21,886 yards.
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Sammy Baugh is considered one of the all-time great football players.
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Sammy Baugh gave birth to the fanaticism of Redskins fans.
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Sammy Baugh was the first to play the position of quarterback as it is played today, the first to make of the forward pass an effective weapon rather than an "act of desperation".
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Sammy Baugh is top 20 all-time in highest single-season completion percentage, he has the most seasons leading the league in yards gained and most seasons leading the league in completion percentage.
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Sammy Baugh led the league in punting from 1940 through 1943.
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Sammy Baugh chose not to return for Redskins team functions, despite repeated organization invitations.
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Sammy Baugh was an assistant for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane in 1963 under head coach Glenn Dobbs.
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Edmonia died in 1990, after 52 years of marriage to Sammy Baugh, who was her high school sweetheart.
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Sammy Baugh always introduced himself as Sam Baugh and signed his papers and autographs that way.
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Sammy Baugh's health began to decline after the death of his wife.