Sammy Baugh
Photo: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Quarterback, TCU, 1934–⁠36

Sammy Baugh

Born
Mar 17, 1914, in Temple, Texas
Died
Dec 17, 2008, in Rotan, Texas

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Sammy Baugh played quarterback at TCU (1934–⁠36). He finished fourth in the 1936 Heisman vote and was a consensus All‑American in 1936. The Washington Redskins took Baugh in the first round, No. 6 overall in the 1937 NFL Draft. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.

At a glance

Best season
1936
Consensus All-American and First-team All-Southwest Conference
Heisman vote
4th
In the 1936 vote
Drafted
No. 6
Overall, 1937 NFL Draft (Washington Redskins)

Honors

Team titles: National champions, 1935

All-America: consensus 1936; UP first team 1935; North American Newspaper Alliance second team 1935; AP third team 1935; Liberty magazine third team 1935; Kansas City Star first team 1935; Pathé News first team 1935; Central Press second team 1935; New York Sun second team 1935

Season by season, from Wikipedia

SeasonTeamPassing
CmpAttPctYdsTD
1934696917140.488310
1935979721046.21,24118
193610410420650.51,19612
Career2705873,32040

From the college statistics table in Baugh’s Wikipedia article (Sammy Baugh, CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).

The teams in those years

Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.

In the NFL

Pro Bowl: 1951 · First-team All-Pro (AP): 3 (1940, 1942–⁠43) · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2 (1947–⁠48)

All-Pro teams: AP first team 1940, 1942–⁠43; AP second team 1947–⁠48; Sporting News second team 1948; New York Daily News first team 1937, 1940, 1942–⁠43, 1945; United Press first team 1937, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1948; INS first team 1937, 1942–⁠43, 1945; and 9 more.

Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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