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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonderful article on pro football and the New York Giants' Sam Huff...
Football has been good to Sam Huff. When he married Mary Fletcher, his classmate sweetheart, in their senior year of high school, his friends were heading for the mines. Now the Huffs and their two children, Robert Lee ("Sam") Huff Jr., 7, and Catherine Ann, 2, live in their own house in Rock Lake, W. Va. Last year Sam bought a 25-acre farm in nearby Farmington to raise Shetland ponies. "When he was a kid, we couldn't afford a pony," says his father, who lives on the farm. "Sam wants every kid in the area to have...
...field, Sam Huff is an unassuming extravert with a reputation as a waitress kidder, a dislike for liquor (two beers make him woozy), and a quiet determination to get to bed around 10 every night. But the game has left more of a mark on him than the slightly twisted nose in his handsome, square-jawed face. Sometimes he worries that the mean streak he works up for his profession of violence will affect him permanently. "You've got to watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys...
...game has also left Huff with strong pride in his playing reputation and a fierce desire to become one of the great defensive players in the history of the game. "There's no telling how good Huff can become," says one Giant official. "He's still far from his potential...
What the new league needs far more than big talk is big players like Linebacker Sam Huff. Down in Consol No. 9, back in Farmington, W. Va., a monster engine pulls loads of coal out of the mine, and still has enough power left over to do half a dozen other jobs. Nickname of the engine: the Sam Huff Special. "By jingo," says the proud father of the finest linebacker in the world, "it pulls an awful load...