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...Tutored by Slingin' Sammy Baugh, past master of passing, and apparently unbothered by eyeglasses as thick as welders' goggles, Hardin-Simmons' Quarterback Ken Ford took a team of Southerners into the Blue-Gray game in Montgomery, completed twelve of 23 tosses and beat the North...
...Sammy Baugh...
...recent years, every time the pass master cocked his arm to throw a football he set a record. In 1945 he had a fabulous completion percentage of .703. Two years later Baugh threw 354 passes, completed 210 of them for 2,938 yards, setting three alltime N.F.L. records in one season. As a quick-kicker, he had no peer; as a defensive player, in the days before the two-platoon system, Baugh once led the N.F.L. in interceptions. Almost since the day he entered the league, the big No. 33 on Baugh's back has been the biggest gate...
...player-coach this season, after three or four tentative attempts to retire, Baugh, now 38, was willing to turn the passing chores over to younger players. But in the opening game of the season, Coach Baugh knew that his understudy was not yet ready. Getting off the bench, Baugh put on a dazzling performance: eleven straight completions for two touchdowns and an upset victory for the Redskins over the Chicago Cardinals...
This week, No. 33 trotted on to the field for his final fling. Some 22,000 fans were in the stands as Baugh ran through a series of downs, spent half an hour after the game signing autographs. Now a successful rancher with 6,355 acres in Rotan, Texas-thanks to some $300,000 earned in salaries and endorsements ("half went to Texas, half to taxes")-Sammy Baugh was altogether ready to call it quits after 16 years, the longest playing career in N.F.L. history...