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Dec 18, 2008 · That's what happened when Sonny Jurgensen traveled to Texas in 1994 to meet "Slingin'" Sammy Baugh for the first time. Baugh passed away Wednesday at the age of 94. But his legend will live on ...
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- Early Life
- Dutch Meyer
- Baugh and Meyer Develop The Early Spread Offense
- Baugh Becomes An All-American
- Baugh Tries to Play Pro Baseball
- Baugh Wins A Championship with Washington
- Baugh Takes The NFL by Storm
- 1943
- Another Championship Run Falls Short
- The Lean Years
Samuel Adrian Baugh was born on March 17, 1914 in Temple, Texas. He was raised on a farm outside of Temple and found ways to distract himself by the time he was in third grade. Life was great until the arrival of the Great Depression. Baugh’s father was able to find work with the railroad then lost his job during a round of cutbacks. Eventually, Ba...
Washington State College (now Washington State University) had interest in Baugh as a baseball player and offered him a scholarship. Nearly a month before he left for Washington, Baugh was playing in an informal baseball game and hurt his knee sliding into second base. When word got back to Washington State, the school pulled his scholarship. Once ...
As Baugh entered TCU, football at the collegiate and pro levels were mostly the same. Teams primarily ran the ball and only used the forward pass on rare occasions. When the ball was run, the ball carrier frequently ran between the tackles. Offensive and defensive formations were bunched together and utilized the middle part of the field. When Meye...
In 1934, the Horned Frogs went 8-4 and then 12-1 in 1935. By then, Baugh was running the Meyer Spread like he’d been playing in the offense his entire life. He ran, passed, and punted the ball while leading TCU to victories over programs such as Texas, Texas A&M, and Arkansas during the ‘35 season. The Horned Frogs lost to SMU near the end of the y...
While he was setting records for TCU on the football field, Baugh continued to play baseball, his first love. As a third baseman, Baugh took to slinging the baseball with speed and accuracy. A local sportswriter saw him throw the ball during a game and gave Baugh the nickname “Slingin’” Sammy Baugh. After graduating from TCU, Baugh signed a contrac...
With the sixth overall selection in the first round of the 1937 NFL Draft, Baugh was picked by the Washington Redskins. The organization moved from Boston to Washington that same year and made a splash by signing Baugh to a record one-year, $8,000 contract. The deal made Baugh the highest-paid player on the team. Baugh would come to regret his cont...
For the next several years, Baugh used the Redskins’ single wing to perfection. He played all over the field on his way to four straight Pro Bowls between 1938 and 1941. Baugh also led the league in nearly every statistical category during that period. In 1940, Washington returned to the NFL title game after a 9-2 season but were crushed by the Chi...
A year after Washington won their second championship in six seasons, the team went 6-3-1 but still finished first in the Eastern Division. Baugh was the difference maker, almost single-handedly winning games by himself. In a remarkable feat of athleticism and stamina, Baugh led the NFL in pass completions (55.6), punting (45.9-yard average), and i...
In 1944, Washington went 6-3-1 again but this time finished third in the Eastern Division, meaning they did not qualify for the playoffs. As the team prepared for the 1945 season, the Redskins coaching staff decided to switch to the T formation. The emphasis on the quarterback passing instead of running the ball was music to Baugh’s ears. The new f...
Instead of continuing to build their franchise into a contender, the Redskins organization fell off the face of a proverbial cliff. After their near championship miss in 1945, Washington wouldn’t make the playoffs again until 1971. Not even Slingin’ Sammy could save the team during the lean years. However, he did produce some memorable seasons desp...
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Two-time All-American and national champion Sam Baugh '37 helped revolutionize college football's forward pass, bringing national acclaim to a tiny and struggling TCU. Eight decades later, he remains the Frogs' greatest athlete ever — and maybe the NFL's too — but football was only half his story. A movie star, coach and rancher, Sam was every bit a Texas legend.
Dec 19, 2008 · I recruited Baugh’s friend, Cowboy Bill Lamza Jr., to set up the interview with Baugh at his ranch outside Rotan, an 8,000-acre spread at the base of Double Mountain.
Apr 9, 2022 · So we asked him which interview he remembers most, and he had no trouble remembering. “The best one of all,” he said on the latest “Eye Test for Two” podcast ( fullpressradio ), “was 1998 after Don Hutson had died, the great Packers’ receiver. (It was) with ‘Slingin’ Sammy Baugh, the last survivor of the 1963 original Class of ...
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