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Baker is the first Oregon State player and the first player from the West Coast to win the Heisman. He’s also the only player in history to win the Heisman and appear in an NCAA Final Four in basketball.
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- Early Life
- College Days with The Oregon State Beavers
- Pro Football Career
- Post-Football Life
Terry Wayne Baker was born to parents Max and Laura in Pine River, MN on May 5, 1941. Max Baker uprooted his family in early 1942, moving them to Santa Monia, CAthat year. The Bakers eventually settled in Portland, OR several years later. Unfortunately, Max and Laura divorced when young Terry was just seven years old in 1948. It would be another tw...
Terry Baker attended Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR from 1959 to 1962. He majored in mechanical engineering. Baker, who has a scant amount of Indian blood from his father Max’s side of the family, indicated “Indian” as his nationality when he enrolled at OSU, per Wright. Baker was a two-sport star for the Oregon State Beavers. He was a po...
The Los Angeles Ramsmade Terry Baker the first overall selection of the 1963 NFL Draft. On the other hand, the San Diego Chargers selected Baker 90th overall in the 1963 AFL Draft. Baker ultimately decided to join the NFL and signed with the Rams. Although the Rams already had a logjam at quarterback (they already had Roman Gabriel, Zeke Bratkowski...
Terry Baker and his first wife, Marilyn, have a son, Brian, and a daughter, Wendy. Terry divorced Marilyn and then married his high school girlfriend, Barbara Ginther, some time later, per Sports Illustrated. Baker currently resides in the Portland, OR area. He become a renowned lawyer after he retired from pro football in 1967. He is a founding me...
Mar 22, 2022 · As an Oregon State senior quarterback in 1962, Baker won the Heisman Trophy. Six days after leading the Beavers to victory in the Liberty Bowl, Baker returned to his job as Oregon State point guard and led the Beavers to the Final Four. One year, one Heisman, one Final Four.
The Oregon State quarterback won the Heisman Trophy his senior year – the only player from the Northwest to win the award until 2014. He holds the distinction of being the only athlete to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year Award in the same year.
As a climax to the regular 1962 season, when Baker broke virtually every important Oregon State football record and led the nation in individual offense, he guided his team to a last-minute,...
- Alfred Wright
Terry Baker holds the distinction of being the only athlete to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year Award in the same year. He did this with Oregon State in 1962, and he also received a Scholar-Athlete Award from the National Football Foundation.
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Terry Baker (b. 1941) is among the most accomplished and celebrated athletes in Oregon State history. Winner of the 1962 Heisman Trophy as the nation's most outstanding college football player, Baker's Oregon State basketball team also reached the Final Four of the 1963 NCAA tournament.
