Word: baugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another to a 0-to-0 tie in their only previous meeting this season. The Giants, best defensive team in the league, had been beaten only once in its last 23 games. Yet they were the underdogs, for the Redskins were an awesome tribe. Led by slick Sam Baugh and Frank Filchock (who between them had completed 94 out of 160 passes) and Anvil Andy Farkas (whose ferocious running had scored eleven touchdowns), they had chalked up 235 points this season-101 in their last three games...
...reason: Slingin' Sammy Baugh. Part of the 80,000 expected in the lakefront stadium watched the sharp-shooting Texan baffle the Chicago Bears in the National League playoff last winter and they're asking themselves, "how can more college boys stops...
...Professional Halfback "Slingin' Sam" Baugh of the world champion Washington Redskins completed 81 passes (in 171 attempts) during the season (not including 17 completed in the play-off for the championship last fortnight)-a new National Football League record...
...approximately $85,000. At the start of the 1937 football season, Owner Marshall, fed up with perpetual deficits in Boston, moved his franchise and his team to Washington where he could give it his personal attention. His only major change in personnel was the addition of dark, drawling Sam Baugh, No. 1 footballer at Texas Christian University last year. With the showmanship which has put Mr. Marshall's glittering laundry depots all over town, he organized a 55-piece band which he dressed like Indians. He bustled around to his influential friends in Washington and persuaded them to attend...
...City to play the New York Giants for the championship of the National Football League's Eastern Division. The Redskins needed to win to become Eastern champions; the Giants needed only a tie. Washingtonians bearing banners paraded up Fifth Avenue, whooped and hollered at the Polo Grounds as Baugh completed 11 out of 15 passes, Cliff Battles gained more than 200 yards running, and Tackle Turk Edwards broke open the hitherto impregnable Giant line. The Redskins won 49-to-14. They went jauntily back to Washington, and as they rehearsed for the wind-up with the fearsome Bears, railroads...