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Author Holley, Joe

Title Slingin' Sam : the Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game / by Joe Holley ; foreword by Peyton Manning
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 172 pages, [176] pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Foreword by Peyton Manning; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1. Sam Baugh: The Beginning; 2. Dutch Meyer: Short, Safe, Sure; 3. 1934: The Baugh Era at TCU Begins; 4. 1935: That Championship Season; 5. George Preston Marshall: Football Impresario; 6. Marshall's Redskins: Boston Born but D.C. Bound; 7. 1936: Baugh's Senior Year at TCU; 8. 1937: Slingin' Sam Chooses a Career; 9. The 1937 Season: Baugh and the Redskins Debut in Washington; 10. The 1937 NFL Championship: Slaying the Monsters of the Midway; 11. Cardinal Sam? Baugh Tries the Major Leagues
12. The 1938 and 1939 Redskins: Giant Victims13. The 1940 NFL Championship: The Monsters' Revenge; 14. Go West, Young Sam: Hollywood Calling; 15. The Newest Thing under Heaven: The Double Mountain Ranch; 16. 1941: A Lackluster Season and a Day of Infamy; 17. The 1942 Season: Avenging 73-0; 18. 1943: A Baugh Trifecta and Another Championship Lost; 19. 1944 and 1945: Yet Another Missed Championship and the End of an Era; 20. The 1946 and 1947 Seasons: The Dismal Years Begin; 21. 1948-1952: Last Years with the Redskins; 22. A Rancher Coaching Cowboys: Baugh at Hardin-Simmons University
23. Back to the Pros: Coaching the Titans and the Oilers24. Ranching, Rodeoing, and Golfing: Sam in Retirement; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Photo Section
Summary "Dan Jenkins calls Baugh "the greatest quarterback who ever lived, college or pro." Even though he played for the Washington Redskins mostly in the pre-TV era (1937-1952), he is still remembered and revered by fans, who consistently name him as the former player they would most like to see back in the game. Baugh was one of the first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A living link between the leather-helmet era and the modern, Baugh spread the field, opened up the game, and made the forward pass a strategic weapon, not a desperation heave. He made quarterback the glamour position, which means that Peyton Manning, Tony Romo, Tom Brady, and all the other football field generals since Baugh are in his debt"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Baugh, Sam, 1914-2008.
SUBJECT Baugh, Sam, 1914-2008 fast
Subject Football players -- United States -- Biography
Quarterbacks (Football) -- United States -- Biography
Football players
Quarterbacks (Football)
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012013003
ISBN 9780292742130
0292742134