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May 18, 2022 · Sammy Baugh is one of 10 QBs selected to the #NFL100 All-Time Team! 🏛 2x NFL Champion 🏛 3x First-Team All-Pro 🏛 6x Pro Bowler 🏛 T-Most defensive INTs in a single game in NFL history (4) 🏛 Led NFL in completions, punt yards and defensive INTs in 1943 pic.twitter.com/43UhJqLQjT
Mar 13, 2024 · Sammy Baugh (born March 17, 1914, Temple, Texas, U.S.—died Dec. 17, 2008, Rotan, Texas) was the first outstanding quarterback in the history of American professional gridiron football. He played a major role in the emergence of the forward pass as a primary offensive tactic in the 1930s and ’40s.
Dec 18, 2008 · He was 94. His death, at Fisher County Memorial Hospital in Rotan, was confirmed by the Redskins. Baugh had had Alzheimer’s and kidney problems, The Associated Press reported. Baugh joined the...
Date of Death: Dec 17, 2008. Jersey Number: 45. Height: 6-2. Weight: 180. High School: Temple, TX (Temple HS)Sweetwater, TX (Sweetwater HS) "Slingin'" Sammy Baugh was the first of the great glamour players to give tremendous impetus to the modern passing game. Aided by the slimmer football developed in 1934, Baugh threw 587 passes in his three ...
Dec 18, 2008 · By Richard Goldstein. Dec. 18, 2008. Sammy Baugh, the Washington Redskins quarterback who was one of football's greatest passers and a pivotal figure in transforming the National Football...
May 8, 2018 · Sammy Baugh. 1914-American football player. The first superstar passer in college football, Sammy Baugh held every National Football League (NFL) passing record and was chosen for the charter classes of both the college (1951) and professional (1963) football halls of fame. Many of his records stood for fifty years and others will never be broken.
Jul 25, 2023 · The 2023 season marks the 80th anniversary of what many historians consider the greatest overall single season in NFL history. In 1943, Pro Football Hall of Famer Sammy Baugh led the league in pass completions (133), completion percentage (55.6%), interceptions produced on defense (11) and punting average (45.9).
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