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California
California (pronounced
i/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (
i/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ loss-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation /lɒs ˈændʒəliːz/ loss-AN-jə-leez) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".
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Ralph DePalma
Ralph De Palma (Biccari, December 18, 1882 – South Pasadena, March 31, 1956) was an Italian-American racecar driving champion, most notably winner of the 1915 Indianapolis 500. His entry at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame estimates that he won about 2000 races. DePalma won the 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1911 American AAA national dirt track championships and is credited with winning 24 American Champ car races. He won the Canadian national championship in 1929. DePalma estimated that he had earned $1.5 million by 1934 after racing for 27 years. He is inducted in numerous halls of fame. He competed on boards and dirt road courses and ovals.
Born in Biccari, Apulia, Italy, DePalma's family emigrated to the United States in 1893. As a young man he tried bicycle racing with mixed success, but at the age of twenty-two he began racing motorcycles before switching to the automobile dirt track racing circuit in 1909, the year that the American Automobile Association established the national driving championship.
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Texas Stadium
Texas Stadium was a football stadium located in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The stadium opened on September 17, 1971.
Built to replace the aging Cotton Bowl, it served as the home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys from 1971 to 2008, and had a seating capacity of 65,675. The Cotton Bowl still stands as of November 2010, but Texas Stadium is now demolished.
In 2009, the stadium was replaced as home of the Cowboys by the $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium, which completed construction and officially opened on May 27, 2009 in Arlington, Texas.
The stadium was demolished by a controlled implosion on April 11, 2010.
In the mid-1960s, then-Cowboys owner Clint Murchison, Jr. realized that the area surrounding the Cotton Bowl had become unsafe and downtrodden, and it was not a location he wanted his big dollar season ticket holders to be forced to go through. Murchison was denied a request by Dallas mayor Erik Jonsonn to build a new stadium in downtown Dallas as part of a civic-bond package. Murchison envisioned a new stadium with sky-boxes and one in which attendees would have to pay a personal seating license as a prerequisite to purchasing season tickets. With two games left for the Cowboys to play in the 1967 NFL season, Murchison and Cowboys general manager Tex Schramm announced a plan to build a new stadium in Irving, Texas.
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Adrian McPherson
Adrian Jamal McPherson (born May 8, 1983 in Bradenton, Florida) is a quarterback for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Florida State.
McPherson has been a member of the Indiana Firebirds, Utah Blaze, Austin Wranglers and Grand Rapids Rampage.
A former Florida Mr. Basketball and Mr. Football (the first athlete to have both honors in Florida history) as a student at Southeast High School in Bradenton, Florida, McPherson began his career at Florida St. playing quarterback on the football team and point guard on the basketball team. Attended Southeast High School in Bradenton, Fla.
Gatorade Florida Football Player of the season.
Passed for 3,728 yards and 42 touchdowns and rushed for 765 yards and 10 touchdowns as a senior at Southeast.
Played third base for his American Legion baseball team that won a state championship in the summer of 2002.
In 2003 Played two seasons (2001-02)at Florida State University. As a sophomore in 2002, started four games, completing 80 of 156 passes for 1,017 yards, 12 touchdowns and one interception. Also rushed for 180 yards on 48 carries.
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Al Cervi
Alfred Nicholas Cervi (February 12, 1917 – November 9, 2009) was an American professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball League (NBL) and National Basketball Association (NBA). One of the strongest backcourt players of the 1940s and 1950s, he was always assigned to defend against the opposing team's best scoring threat. He earned the nickname Digger because of his hard-nosed style of defense.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Cervi attended East High School in his hometown, where he captained the baseball and basketball teams and achieved All-City honors in both sports. He dropped out of school after his junior year when he was recruited by the Buffalo Bisons of the newly formed NBL. He played in all of the Bisons' nine games in 1937–38, the franchise's only season of existence.
He never attended college. Instead, he served five years in the United States Army Air Forces from 1940 through 1945.
After the conclusion of World War II, he joined the Rochester Royals, another NBL franchise entering its first year of operations. He immediately experienced success as the team captured the 1945–46 league title after sweeping the best-of-five championship series from the Sheboygan Red Skins. The Royals returned to the finals the following two seasons, but lost to the Chicago American Gears and Minneapolis Lakers in four games each. Cervi made the All-NBL First Team in 1947 and 1948. In the first of those two campaigns, he was named the circuit's Most Valuable Player as the leading scorer with 632 points.
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Al Dorow
Albert Richard "Al" Dorow (November 15, 1929 – December 7, 2009) was an American collegiate and Professional Football quarterback. He played collegiately for Michigan State and professionally in the National Football League and the American Football League.
Dorow, a quarterback, played college football at Michigan State University and was All-American in 1951. He was drafted in the third round of the 1952 NFL Draft. After serving the required two years in the military, Dorow played for the Washington Redskins during the 1954, 1955, and 1956 seasons, and for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1957. After being released by the Eagles before the start of the 1958 season, Dorow spent two years in the Canadian Football League, playing for Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Toronto. Dorow moved to the AFL for its inaugural season, playing for the New York Titans (forerunner of the New York Jets) in 1960 and 1961, before being traded to the Buffalo Bills for the 1962 season. Dorow injured his arm in the fourth game of the 1962 season and was unable to play again.
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Alan Ameche
Lino Dante "Alan" Ameche (March 1, 1933 – August 8, 1988), nicknamed "The Horse", was an American football player who played six seasons with the Baltimore Colts in the National Football League after winning the Heisman Trophy in college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was elected to the Pro Bowl in each of his first four seasons in the league. He is famous for scoring the winning touchdown in the 1958 NFL Championship Game against the New York Giants, labeled "The Greatest Game Ever Played."
After emigrating to the United States in the late 1930s, his family returned for a year to Italy. The family then returned to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Alan attended Mary D. Bradford High School. Alan was a cousin of noted actors Don Ameche and Jim Ameche. With colleague (and former Colts teammate) Gino Marchetti, Alan Ameche founded the Gino's Hamburgers chain. The Baltimore-based Ameche's Drive-in restaurants were named for him. Ameche died in Houston, Texas.
Ameche earned All-America honors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he played linebacker as well as fullback in single-platoon days. In four years as a Badger, he gained 3,212 yards, then the NCAA record, scored 25 touchdowns, and averaged 4.8 yards a carry. Ameche won the Heisman in 1954.
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Albie Reisz
Albie Reisz was a professional American football player who played quarterback for three seasons for the Cleveland Rams/Los Angeles Rams.
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Alex Delvecchio
Alexander Peter "Fats" Delvecchio (born December 4, 1931) is a former ice hockey player and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
After playing a single junior league season for the Oshawa Generals of the OHA (during which he led the league in assists) Delvecchio joined the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League for the 1952 season, and helped the team to win the Stanley Cup that year.
He would go on to excel both at centre and left wing for twenty-two full seasons and parts of two others, and was notable for his spot on the Production line with linemates Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay. No player except Nicklas Lidström in NHL history played more games with just the one team. One of the true gentlemen in the game of hockey, he was a three-time winner of the Lady Byng Trophy for combining good sportsmanship with excellence on the ice. Despite his impressive career, Delvecchio was never the Red Wings' leading point scorer in a season. The closest he ever came was in the 1969–70 NHL season, where he was just 3 points behind Gordie Howe for the team lead.
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Alex Van Pelt
Alexander "Alex" Van Pelt (born May 1, 1970) is an American football coach and former quarterback.
Van Pelt was a star college quarterback at the University of Pittsburgh. When Van Pelt left Pittsburgh, he held school passing records that he had taken from Dan Marino. His single season mark of 3,163 passing yards was broken in 2003 by Rod Rutherford.
Van Pelt was an eighth round draft pick of his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, but failed to make the opening game roster. After spending six months as the Kansas City Chiefs fourth-string quarterback in 1994, he spent the remainder of his career as a Buffalo Bill. Van Pelt was a career backup in the National Football League, where he had career totals of 16 touchdowns and 24 interceptions in 477 pass attempts.
Van Pelt's first NFL win as a starter would come on November 2, 1997, against Dan Marino and the Miami Dolphins. In 2001, he started 8 games, going 2-6, and playing well enough to justify a contract extension that would allow the Bills to release failed Doug Flutie successor Rob Johnson. Van Pelt would never start a game after 2001 due to a Bills trade with the New England Patriots for Drew Bledsoe, who became the full-time starting quarterback.
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Amp Lee
Anthonia Wayne "Amp" Lee (born October 1, 1971) is an American football coach and former professional running back who played nine seasons in the National Football League. He is currently the running backs coach for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League.
Lee was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the 1992 NFL Draft. A 5'11", 200-lb. running back from Florida State University, Lee played in nine NFL seasons from 1992 to 2000. His best year as a professional came during the 1995 season as a member of the Minnesota Vikings when he caught 71 receptions. In 1997, Lee was named team MVP for the St. Louis Rams.
Lee caught Joe Montana's final touchdown pass for the 49ers in 1992.
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Andy DePaul
Andy "Kid" DePaul (born Andrew A. DiPaolo on November 22, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a noted amateur and professional boxer and referee. He has been the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commissioner for Western Pennsylvania since 1990. During his amateur boxing career, Andy won 82 of 92 amateur fights. In 1946 he was the 135 pound Dapper Dan Golden Gloves champion, and the 135 pound AAU AMA Champion. In 1947 he was the 135 pound and 147 pound Pittsburgh Golden Gloves champion and the 135 pound Eastern Golden Gloves champion, which was held in Madison Square Garden. He was also an AAU finalist in Boston. After he turned professional, he compiled a career record of 27 wins, 8 losses, 3 draws. In 1950 he was the ninth-ranked middleweight in the world.
After his professional boxing career ended, DePaul served as a referee for boxing and professional wrestling shows around the Pittsburgh area. He was a featured referee on the very popular Studio Wrestling program broadcast out of Pittsburgh on the old WIIC-TV Channel 11.
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Andy Granatelli
Anthony "Andy" Granatelli (born March 18, 1923; Dallas, Texas) was the CEO of STP (motor oil company) and a major figure in automobile racing events.
Along with brothers Vince and Joe, Andy first worked as an auto mechanic and 'speed-shop' entrepreneur, modifying engines such as the 'flathead' Ford into racing-quality equipment. During World War II, he became a promoter of automobile racing events, such as the "Hurricane Racing Association," which combined racing opportunities for up-and-coming drivers with crowd-pleasing theatrics. Hurricane events, according to Granatelli in his autobiography They Call Me Mister 500, included drivers who were experts at executing—and surviving—roll-over and end-over-end crashes, and also an ambulance that not only got caught up into the race but also ejected a stretcher (with a dummy on it) into the way of the racers.
In 1946, the three brothers entered the first of several Indianapolis 500's, as the Grancor racing team. They did their own mechanical work, and brought innovations like fully independent suspension, yet never made it to "Victory Lane." In 1948, Andy decided to try to qualify as a driver, and nearly did so, but a horrendous crash during his qualifying run ended that part of his career.
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Andy Robustelli
Andrew Richard "Andy" Robustelli (December 6, 1925 – May 31, 2011) was an American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams and the New York Giants. He played college football at Arnold College and was drafted in the nineteenth round of the 1951 NFL Draft. Robustelli was a seven-time First-team All-pro selection and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
Robustelli was born on December 6, 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut, to Lucien Robustelli, an Italian-American and his wife Catherine Robustelli. He attended Stamford High School, where he excelled in football and baseball. At age 18, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served on the USS William C. Cole in the Pacific Theater. After the war, he attended Arnold College, in Milford, Connecticut, where he played both football and baseball. After college, he was drafted in the NFL by the Los Angeles Rams in the nineteenth round of the 1951 NFL Draft. In June, 1951, he was offered a tryout with the New York Giants baseball club. The Giants offered Robustelli a $400 contract to play with their minor league affiliate Knoxville Smokies.
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Andy Varipapa
Andy Varipapa (B. March 31, 1891, Carfizzi, Italy – D. August 25, 1984) was a professional and trick bowler. Varipapa became famous around the world for his trick bowling shots. He was considered to be "the greatest one-man bowling show on earth" because of his array of exhibition rolls, such as a "boomerang ball" that Varipapa would slowly roll down the lane, only to have it return. He was famous for his ability to convert splits and, astoundingly, could regularly convert the 7-10 split by rolling one ball from each hand, simultaneously. A film shows the balls crossing paths before meeting the pins. He made many demonstration short films over his career, including 1934's Strikes and Spares with Sally McKee and Buster Brodie.
In 1947, at the age of 56, he won the prestigious BPAA All-Star competition (predecessor to the U.S. Open) in a gruelling 100 game format, making him the oldest winner ever. He became the first to win two years in a row when he repeated in 1948 in spite of a dramatic comeback by Joe Wilman.In 1949 Mr. Varipapa came close to a three peat, finishing second to winner Connie Schwoegler of Madison Wisconsin. Mr. Varipapa lived to be 93 years old and was an active bowler well into old age. At the age of 78, he taught himself to bowl left-handed, as his right hand was giving him difficulties. Within two years he averaged 180, a testament to his skills and longevity.
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Angelo Bertelli
Angelo Bortolo Bertelli (June 18, 1921 – June 26, 1999) was an American football player. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1943 playing as a quarterback for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Bertelli born in West Springfield, Massachusetts on June 18, 1921 to Italian immigrant parents. At Cathedral High School in Springfield, he won all-state honors in football, baseball and hockey and was senior class president.
When Bertelli entered Notre Dame in 1940, he was 6 feet 1 inch and 173 pounds, a skinny but highly regarded tailback in the single-wing formation used by most college teams. When Coach Elmer Layden left to become commissioner of the National Football League, Notre Dame's new coach, Frank Leahy, immediately noticed Bertelli's passing talents.
As a sophomore, Bertelli, still a single-wing tailback, led the nation with a 56.9 percent passing average, completing 70 of 123 attempts. In 1942, Leahy switched to a modified T-formation, in which Bertelli would play under the center and take every snap. As he told his budding star, "Bert, you're the finest passer and the worst runner I've ever coached." That summer, preparing for his new role, Bertelli said he took "a thousand snaps...maybe a million." Bertelli and the T-formation were an immediate success. He passed for 1,039 yards and 10 touchdowns. Celebrated sportswriter Grantland Rice referenced Bertelli as "the T-formation magician."
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Angelo Dundee
Angelo Dundee (born Angelo Mirena; August 30, 1921 – February 1, 2012) was an American boxing trainer and cornerman. Best known for his work with Muhammad Ali (1960–1981), he also worked with 15 other world boxing champions, including Sugar Ray Leonard, José Nápoles, George Foreman, George Scott, Jimmy Ellis, Carmen Basilio, Luis Rodriguez and Willie Pastrano.
Born in Philadelphia of Italian descent, Dundee went to New York and later to Miami where he learned many of the strategies of a boxer's cornerman while acting as a "bucket man" to the great trainers of Stillman's Gym. There, his mentors included Charlie Goldman, Ray Arcel, and Chickie Ferrera. Later, his brother Chris Dundee opened the Fifth Street Gym in Miami.
Carmen Basilio was the first world champion for whom Dundee acted as a cornerman when Basilio defeated Tony DeMarco for the world welterweight crown and later Sugar Ray Robinson for the world middleweight crown.
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Angelo Poffo
John Angelo Poffo (April 10, 1925 – March 4, 2010) was an American professional wrestler and wrestling promoter. He ran International Championship Wrestling for a number of years, holding cards in Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas. He was the father of "Leaping" Lanny Poffo and "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
Poffo started wrestling in 1948 at Karl Pojello's gym in Illinois. His first match was in 1949 against Ruffy Silverstein. He sometimes wrestled as The Masked Miser and managed other wrestlers as the Miser. He became a villainous character for the first time in 1950. In the mid-1950s, Bronco Lubich acted as his manager. He won the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Chicago version) in 1958.
He formed a villainous tag team with Chris Markoff called "The Devil's Duo" in 1966, and they were managed by Bobby Heenan. In 1973, he formed the team "The Graduates" with Ken Dillinger.
Poffo wrestled in the 1970s and 1980s under a mask as "The Carpet Bagger" for Emile Dupre's Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. He also bought into the promotion, when his sons were old enough to join. He wrestled under a yellow mask with a dollar sign on the forehead and a blue sequined ring jacket with a big dollar sign on the back. In addition, Poffo ran International Championship Wrestling from 1979 to 1983 in Kentucky.
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Anthony Calvillo
Anthony Calvillo (born August 23, 1972) is a Canadian Football League quarterback, currently playing for the Montreal Alouettes. He is the all-time professional football passing yards leader and first in all-time CFL passing yards. In his career, he has passed for over 70,000 yards and is one of four professional quarterbacks to have completed over 400 touchdown passes (others include Brett Favre, Warren Moon and Dan Marino). He surpassed Damon Allen to enter into the CFL record books as the record holder for most career TD passes and most career completions. He has won three Grey Cup championships in 2002, 2009, and 2010, being named Grey Cup Most Valuable Player in 2002. He has won the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award three times, in 2003, 2008, and 2009, which ties him for second all-time behind Doug Flutie.
Calvillo was born in Los Angeles, California. While attending La Puente High School, Anthony Calvillo was a two-sport standout in football and basketball. He and his wife Alexia have two daughters.
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Babe Pinelli
Ralph Arthur "Babe" Pinelli, born Rinaldo Angelo Paolinelli (October 18, 1895 – October 22, 1984), was an American third baseman and umpire in Major League Baseball. Born in San Francisco, his playing career was mostly with the Cincinnati Reds from 1922 to 1927. He also played with the Chicago White Sox (1918) and Detroit Tigers (1920). After that he became a highly regarded National League umpire from 1935 to 1956, officiating in 6 World Series: 1939, 1941, 1947, 1948 (outfield only), 1952 and 1956; he was crew chief for the final two Series. He also umpired in the All-Star game in 1937, 1941, 1950 and 1956, working behind home plate for the second half of the last three games, and he worked in the 3-game series to determine the NL champion in 1946.
Pinelli wrote an article for The Second Fireside Book of Baseball, titled "Kill the Umpire? Don't Make Me Laugh!" in which he told about his rookie year of 1935, when he was told that he should not call a strike on Babe Ruth, who was winding up his career with the Boston Braves. Pinelli didn't see it that way. When he was behind the plate and Ruth came to bat, and a close pitch went by that Ruth didn't swing at, Pinelli deemed it a strike and so called it. Ruth turned to the umpire and bellowed, "There's forty thousand people in this park that know that was a ball, tomato-head!" Pinelli didn't lose his cool. He replied calmly, "Perhaps--but mine is the only opinion that counts." Ruth had no answer for that.
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Ben Abruzzo
Benjamin L. Abruzzo (June 9, 1930 – February 11, 1985) was an American hot air balloonist and businessman. He helped increase the reputation of Albuquerque as a center of lighter-than-air and hot-air ballooning.
Abruzzo was born in Rockford. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1952, and then entered the United States Air Force. After graduation, Abruzzo was stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. He would adopt New Mexico as his home state after leaving military service in 1954.
Abruzzo took an interest in hot air ballooning. He was on the crew of the Double Eagle I in 1977. After the five deaths in the early 1970s, many believed the Double Eagle I would become the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, Abruzzo suffered exposure and frostbite while over Iceland and was forced to abandon the attempt.
The team, this time with Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, made a second attempt in the Double Eagle II in 1978. The team took off from Presque Isle, Maine on August 11 and made a successful landing in Miserey, France six days later. For their efforts, the team was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1979.
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Bernard Masterson
Bernard "Bernie" Edward Masterson (August 10, 1911 – May 1963) was a three-sport athlete at Lincoln High. He was an all-state back in football, a starter on the 1930 state championship basketball team, and a track star.
Moving on to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, he starred from 1931 to 1933 as a back on three straight unbeaten Big Six championship teams. He was selected All-Big Six in 1933.
He played quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1934 to 1940 when the Bears were known as the "Monsters of the Midway". During his pro career, the Bears were 59-19-3 and were in three NFL championship play-offs. Bernie has an NFL career total of 3,372 passing yards and 35 touchdowns.
He came back to Nebraska as head football coach for 1946 and 1947. He went 5-13 in the two seasons as head coach. Bernie was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 1977.
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Bernie Faloney
Bernie Faloney (June 15, 1932 – June 14, 1999) was a professional football player in the Canadian Football League (primarily with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats) and an outstanding American college football player at the University of Maryland. Born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, Faloney is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, the Western Pennsylvania Hall of Fame, and the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame. Faloney's jersey #10 was retired by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1999. In 2006, Faloney was voted to the Honour Roll of the CFL's Top 50 Players of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.
B.J. "Bernie" Faloney was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, where he played high school football before attending the University of Maryland, College Park. There, he played college football as a quarterback, helping the Terrapins make it to the Sugar Bowl in 1952. In his senior season of 1953, Faloney quarterbacked Maryland to be NCAA Division I-A national football champions and into the 1954 Orange Bowl. At season's end, Faloney finished fourth in the balloting for the 1953 Heisman Trophy.
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Bernie Masterson
Bernard E. "Bernie" Masterson (August 10, 1911 – May 16, 1963) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1946 to 1947, compiling a record of 5–13. Masterson played college football at Nebraska from 1931 to 1933. He played professionally in the National Football League with the Chicago Bears from 1934 to 1940.
In 1940, Clark Shaughnessy hired Masterson to coach Stanford quarterback Frankie Albert.
Masterson died of a heart attack in Chicago on May 16, 1963.
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Bert Jones
Bertram Hays "Bert" Jones (born September 7, 1951) is a former LSU and NFL quarterback who played for the then Baltimore Colts and, briefly, the Los Angeles Rams. At Ruston High School, he was given the nickname, "The Ruston Rifle". He is the son of former NFL running back, Dub Jones of the Cleveland Browns.
Jones went to the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he played for LSU's football team. He was also a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity (Gamma chapter). While at LSU, Jones only started two games prior to the end of his junior year, but he started every game after that, leading LSU to a 12-2-1 record. During his senior year (1972), LSU went 9-2-1. Except for one week, LSU spent that entire season ranked in the AP Top 10. That year, Jones became the first quarterback in LSU history to be awarded consensus All-American honors. Jones also finished 4th in the vote for the Heisman Trophy and was voted the National Collegiate Player of the Year by the Cleveland Touchdown Club.
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Bill Glassford
James William "Bill" Glassford (born March 8, 1914) is a former American football player and coach. He attended the University of Pittsburgh where he played football earning first-team All-American status at guard. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and graduated in 1936.
From 1946 to 1948, Glassford coached at the University of New Hampshire, where he compiled a 19–5–1 record. This includes an 8–1 record in 1947. From 1949 to 1955, he coached at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he compiled a 31–35–3 record. In 1949 his team went 4–5, 6–2–1 in 1950, 2–8 in 1951, 5–4–1 in 1952, 3–6–1 in 1953, 6–5 in 1954, and 5–5 in 1955. His three winning seasons were the only winning seasons the school had between 1941 and 1961. He also coached three All-Americans in Tom Novak (1949), Bobby Reynolds (1950), and Jerry Minnick (1952). He led the school to its first ever Orange Bowl in 1955, where they lost to Duke, 34–7. He retired after the 1955 season and went into private business in Arizona. He was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Bill Munson
William Alan Munson (August 11, 1941 - July 10, 2000) was a professional American football quarterback who played in 16 NFL seasons from 1964 through 1979 for five different teams. He was 6'2" and weighed 203 lbs. He was best known for his years as a starter for the Detroit Lions in the mid-1970s. On July 10, 2000, Munson was found drowned in his swimming pool.
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Bill Wade
William James Wade (born October 4, 1930 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a American football quarterback, in the National Football League. He is also considered one of the greatest athletes in Nashville and Vanderbilt University history. Wade is a member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame and the Vanderbilt Athletic Hall of Fame.
Wade was a professional quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Bears. He is best known for being the starting quarterback on the Chicago Bears' 1963 NFL championship team.
Wade is a longtime resident of Nashville, TN, and has two sons and one daughter named Sharon Kinser, who still live in Nashville. He was born and raised in Nashville (and was born at Vanderbilt Hospital.) Wade is one of two sons of former 1921 Vanderbilt football captain, William J. Wade, Sr. The younger Wade began his athletic career at Woodmont Grammar School in Nashville, where he played guard rather than quarterback. He later starred at Hillsboro High School and Mongomery Bell Academy.
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Billy Martin
Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr. (May 16, 1928 – December 25, 1989) was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times. As Yankees manager, he led the team to consecutive American League pennants in 1976 and 1977; the Yankees were swept in the 1976 World Series by the Cincinnati Reds but triumphed over the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games in the 1977 World Series. He also had notable managerial tenures with several other AL squads, leading four of them to division championships.
As a manager, Martin was known for turning losing teams into winners, and for arguing animatedly with umpires, including a widely parodied routine in which he kicked dust on their feet. However, he was criticized for not getting along with veteran players and owners, burning out young pitchers, and for having an addiction to alcohol. During the 1969 through 1988 period as a manager, Martin totaled 1,253 victories with a .553 winning percentage.
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Bo Pelini
Mark "Bo" Pelini (born December 13, 1967) is the head football coach at the University of Nebraska. He had previously been defensive coordinator for the LSU Tigers, Oklahoma Sooners, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers. On December 2, 2007, one day after coaching in the 2007 SEC Championship Game, Pelini was named as head coach at Nebraska by athletic director Tom Osborne.
Pelini was raised in Youngstown, Ohio, a former center of steel production with a strong athletic tradition. He was nicknamed "Bo" after former Cleveland Browns running back Bo Scott. After graduating from Youngstown Cardinal Mooney High School (the same high school as Oklahoma Sooners Head Coach Bob Stoops), he went on to play free safety for Ohio State University Buckeyes under Earle Bruce and later John Cooper from 1987 to 1990, as a starter in his last two years. Pelini served as a team co-captain in his senior year, along with Vinnie Clark, Jeff Graham and Greg Frey. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business marketing from Ohio State University in 1990 while playing for the Buckeyes.
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Bob Brodhead
Bob Brodhead (born December 20, 1936 in Kittanning, PA, died February 11, 1996 in Baton Rouge, LA) was the Athletic Director at Louisiana State University from 1982-1987. He is also the author of Sacked! The Dark Side of Sports at Louisiana State University (ISBN 0-9446790-0-5)
Brodhead attended Duke University where he played quarterback on the football team. During that time he led the Blue Devils to the Orange Bowl and shared the quarterback position with Sonny Jurgenson.
He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in 1958 but went on active duty in the Armed Services before being able to join the Browns. After his discharge in 1960 he signed instead with the upstart Buffalo Bills of the fledgling American Football League. He played one season of professional football in the American Football League during the 1960 AFL season for the Buffalo Bills, starting one game before having a brief stint with the CFL Edmonton Eskimos. In 1961 he embarked on a legendary career in minor league football with the Canton Bulldogs and Cleveland Bulldogs in the United Football League and then, in 1965 and 66 with the Philadelphia Bulldogs of the Continental Football League. He led the Bulldogs to the CFL title in 1966 with a win over the Orlando Panthers, and then, at age 28, was named Business Manager of the Cleveland Browns.
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Bob Devaney
Robert S. "Bob" Devaney (April 13, 1915 – May 9, 1997) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Wyoming from 1957 to 1961 and at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1962 to 1972, compiling a career college football record of 136–30–7. Devaney's Nebraska Cornhuskers won consecutive national championships in 1970 and 1971. Devaney also served as the athletic director at Nebraska from 1967 to 1993. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1981. He died of a heart attack on May 9, 1997.
Devaney graduated from Alma College in 1939, where he played end on the football team. Devaney coached high school football in Michigan at Big Beaver, Keego Harbor, Saginaw, and Alpena, before joining the Michigan State Spartans staff as an assistant coach under Biggie Munn and continuing under Duffy Daugherty.
Devaney's first college head coaching job was at the University of Wyoming, where he went 35–10–5 (.750) in five seasons between 1957 and 1961. The Cowboys won the Sun Bowl in his second season and won or shared the Skyline Conference title in his final four seasons in Laramie. Following the 1961 season, he was hired at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln at an annual salary of $17,000.
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Bob Snyder
Bob Snyder (February 6, 1913 – January 4, 2001) was a football player and coach who spent more than three decades in the sport, including his most prominent position as head coach of the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams.
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Snyder played three years of football at Ohio University, seeing action on both sides of the ball. During that trio of seasons that began in 1933, Snyder was off the field for just four minutes, winning small college All-America honors as a senior.
He moved on to the fledgling American Football League in 1936, where he played for the Pittsburgh Americans before shifting to the NFL the following year with the Cleveland Rams. Playing quarterback (as well as serving as the team's placekicker) for two seasons, Snyder finished the 1938 NFL season with 631 yards passing, while also showing excellent speed and mobility.
On February 13, 1939, Snyder was traded to the Chicago Bears and used at running back. After contributing throughout the campaign, he suffered a deep personal tragedy when his two-week-old son, Robert Calvin, died on November 30.
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Bob Waterfield
Robert Stanton "Bob" Waterfield (July 26, 1920 – March 25, 1983) was an American football player, a hall of fame quarterback in the National Football League.
Born in Elmira, New York, Waterfield grew up in southern California in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. He attended Van Nuys High School, in Van Nuys and went on to play college football for UCLA. He led the Bruins to the Pacific Coast Conference football championship in 1942 and a berth in the 1943 Rose Bowl against the University of Georgia. The game was scoreless into the fourth quarter until Waterfield's punt was blocked for a safety. Georgia added a touchdown to post a 9-0 win.
Waterfield entered the U.S. Army in 1943 and while in the service he was selected with the 42nd overall pick of the 1944 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Rams. He was discharged from the military due to a knee injury and returned college and played for UCLA in 1944.
His rookie year in professional football was in 1945 and he started immediately. Waterfield was taken in quickly by fans, becoming the first ever rookie to win the league’s Most Valuable Player and unanimous All-NFL choice. He ended the season with a win in the NFL Championship game, where he threw touchdown passes of 37 and 44 yards as the Rams beat the Washington Redskins 15-14. After the season, he signed a three-year contract for $20,000 per year, which made him the highest-paid player in pro football.
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Bobby Czyz
Robert Edward "Bobby" Czyz (/ˈtʃɛz/ CHEZ; born February 10, 1962) is a retired American boxer. A New Jersey native of mostly Polish and Italian descent, he is both a former world light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion.
Czyz was born in Orange, New Jersey. He lived in Wanaque, New Jersey and attended Lakeland Regional High School.
Nicknamed "Matinee Idol", Czyz was a member of the United States amateur boxing team whose other members died in the LOT Polish Airlines plane crash in Poland in 1980. Because of an auto accident one week before the fatal trip, Czyz was not on the plane.
Czyz had a quick start to his professional boxing career in the early 1980s, and he was soon in line for a shot against world middleweight champion Marvin Hagler. He had to start from scratch, however, after suffering a 10-round loss at the hands of veteran Mustafa Hamsho in November 1982.
Czyz went up in weight, put another string of wins together, and in September 1986, he finally found himself in a ring with an undefeated world champion, IBF light heavyweight champion Slobodan Kacar (Olympic Gold medallist of 1980). Czyz beat him in five rounds.
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Bobby Newcombe
Robert Wundu Sowa "Bobby" Newcombe (born on August 8, 1979 in Sierra Leone, Africa) is a former starting quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
As a sophomore in 1998, Bobby Newcombe started at quarterback and led his team to a 9-4 record and a No. 19 ranking nationally in spite of suffering from a knee injury in the first game that would plague him all season long. During the season, Newcombe led Nebraska in passing yards with 712 and had 228 rushing yards while completing 50-of-79 passes and throwing just one interception. The 6-0, 195-pound native of Albuquerque, New Mexico also recorded eight rushing touchdowns and one passing touchdown, while his longest run from the line of scrimmage was 20 yards. Newcombe's longest pass play covered 49 yards to wide receiver Matt Davison against Texas A&M on Oct. 10, 1998.
One of Newcombe's most memorable moments for individual game performances came on August 29, 1998 when he completed 9-of-10 passes for 168 yards including a 46 yard touchdown pass to tight end Sheldon Jackson in a 56-27 shootout victory over Louisiana Tech which was televised nationally.
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Bobby Valentine
Robert John "Bobby V" Valentine (born May 13, 1950) is an American professional baseball manager and former player who is currently the manager of the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball (MLB). As a player, Valentine played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1969, 1971–1972), California Angels (1973–1975), New York Mets (1977–1978), and Seattle Mariners (1979) in MLB. In addition to the Red Sox, he managed the Texas Rangers (1985–1992) and New York Mets (1996–2002) of MLB, as well as the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (1995, 2004–2009).
Valentine has also served as the Director of Public Safety & Health for the city of Stamford, Connecticut and an analyst for ESPN Sunday Night Baseball.
Valentine was widely recruited out of Rippowam High School in Stamford, Connecticut by the University of Nebraska, Duke University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Southern California as a star in football and baseball. He attended USC where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. The Los Angeles Dodgers drafted him number five overall in the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft.
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Brian Boitano
Brian Anthony Boitano (born October 22, 1963) is an American figure skater from Sunnyvale, California. He is the 1988 Olympic champion, the 1986 and 1988 World Champion, and the 1985-1988 U.S. National Champion. He turned professional following the 1988 season. He returned to competition in 1993 and competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics, where he placed sixth.
Brian Boitano was born in Mountain View, California, and now lives in San Francisco. Boitano is a graduate of Marian A. Peterson High School in Sunnyvale, California.
Brian Boitano first made his mark on the international scene when he won the bronze medal at the 1978 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, beating future rival Brian Orser for that medal.
In 1982 Boitano became the first American to land a triple axel. In 1987 he introduced his signature jump, the 'Tano triple lutz' in which the skater raises his left arm above his head. He attempted a quadruple jump throughout the 1986-87 season and at the 1988 World Figure Skating Championships, but did not cleanly land the jump; he double-footed the landing on two occasions.
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Brian Brohm
Brian Joseph Brohm (born September 23, 1985) is an American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Louisville.
Brohm has also played for the Buffalo Bills and Las Vegas Locomotives.
While passing for 10,579 yards and 119 touchdowns during his prep career, Brohm led the Trinity Shamrocks to the 4-A state title in 2001, 2002, and 2003. He was the MVP of all three title games, the most exciting of which was a 59-56 victory over Louisville Male and 2002 Mr. Football Michael Bush. Brohm threw for 555 yards and 7 TDs in that game. Brian was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated on November 18, 2002, while he was a junior in high school. Brohm was named 2003 Kentucky Mr. Football, USA Today Offensive Player of the Year and was the Gatorade Player of the Year for 2003. Brohm was named one of the top five quarterbacks in America by Rivals.com and was selected to participate in the 2004 U.S. Army All-American Bowl game in San Antonio, Texas.
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Brian McClure
Brian McClure (born December 28, 1963) is a former American football quarterback for the Bowling Green Falcons
McClure played for the Falcons from 1982-85, where he set numerous offensive records. His 900 completions and 10,280 yards passing are both school records. He also threw 63 touchdowns which was the school record until Omar Jacobs threw 71 from 2003-2005. In 1985, he led the Falcons to an undefeated regular season, but lost to Fresno State in the California Raisin Bowl.[1].
McClure was drafted in the 12th round of the 1986 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills. He was cut by the Bills in training camp in 1987, but a got a chance to play after all when Buffalo signed him as a replacement player during that year's players strike.
After two weeks of replacement games (both losses, in which Buffalo scored a total of 13 points) and mediocre performances by quarterbacks Dan Manucci and Willie Totten, the Bills named McClure their starting QB for the October 18 contest against the New York Giants in Buffalo. The game turned out to be a defensive struggle: neither team had scored until New York kicked a field goal early in the fourth quarter. McClure wasn't helping much, throwing three interceptions. Late in the game, though, Buffalo drove down to the Giants 14, then Todd Schlopy kicked a field goal to tie it and force overtime. In the OT, McClure again drove the Bills down the field, this time to the 10, when Schlopy won it with another field goal. [2] The following week, the strike was over and McClure was released.
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Brian Piccolo
Louis Brian Piccolo (October 31, 1943 – June 16, 1970) was a professional football player for the Chicago Bears for four years. He died from embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of germ cell testicular cancer, first diagnosed after it had spread to his chest cavity. He was the subject of the 1971 TV movie Brian's Song, with a remake (of the same title) TV movie filmed in 2001. Piccolo was portrayed in the original film by James Caan and by Sean Maher in the 2001 remake.
Brian Piccolo – the youngest of three sons – was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Joseph and Irene (1909-2011) Piccolo. The family moved south to Fort Lauderdale, Florida when Piccolo was twelve, due to his parents' concerns for his brother Don's health. Piccolo and his brothers were athletes and Brian Piccolo was a star running back on his high school football team, but considered baseball his primary sport.[citation needed] He graduated from the former Central Catholic High School (now St. Thomas Aquinas High School) in Fort Lauderdale in 1961.
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Brock Berlin
Brock Sterling Berlin (born July 4, 1981) is a former American college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Florida and the University of Miami. Berlin was signed by the Miami Dolphins of the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2005, and was also been a member of the Dallas Cowboys, St. Louis Rams and Detroit Lions.
Berlin was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attended Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport. After quarterbacking Evangel Christian to three consecutive Louisiana state high school football championships, Berlin was one of the most hyped football recruits in history. He was recognized as a Parade All-American, and won numerous personal honors, including being named Gatorade National Player of the Year and USA Today National Offensive Player of the Year.
After a long recruiting battle for his services, Berlin chose to accept an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida, where he played for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team during the 2000 and 2001 seasons. His career as a Florida Gator never panned out, though, as he found himself stuck behind classmate Rex Grossman on the team's depth chart. Given the chance to start the 2002 Orange Bowl because Grossman was benched for violating curfew, Berlin performed adequately. He engineered two scores out of six drives in the first 24 minutes, including one touchdown pass and two interceptions. Grossman came in late in the first half and played a brilliant game, solidifying his status as the Gators' starting quarterback for the following season. Berlin played in twelve games for the Gators over two seasons, throwing for 849 yards, 12 touchdowns, and 4 interceptions while completing 64 of 106 passes (60.4%).
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Brook Berringer
Brook Warren Berringer (July 9, 1973 – April 18, 1996) was an American quarterback for the University of Nebraska football team in the mid-1990s. Berringer came to Nebraska from Goodland, Kansas, and played a back-up role to Tommie Frazier. He was best known for replacing an injured Tommie Frazier during the 1994 season and leading the Cornhuskers to seven consecutive wins and to the Orange Bowl national championship game against the University of Miami Hurricanes.
Berringer was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. At the age of 7, Berringer's father died from cancer; soon afterward, he moved with his mother and two sisters to Goodland, Kansas. Throughout his childhood, he played several different sports.
Because of his successful high school career, Berringer was recruited by many Big 8 schools. He picked the University of Nebraska to attend. In 1992, as a freshman, Berringer was a backup. In 1993, as a sophomore, he was again a backup.
In 1994, as a junior, he started seven games because starter Tommie Frazier had a blood clot in his leg. Berringer completed 94 of 151 passes (62%) for 1,295 yards, 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. Prior to this year, Berringer had completed only 17 passes. The team made it to the Orange Bowl, and Frazier recovered in time to start for it. During the game, Frazier threw an interception on the second play of Nebraska's second series. Berringer took over, and threw a 19-yard TD pass to Mark Gilman that drew the Huskers within 3 points. Nebraska eventually won the game 24-17 with Berringer playing through the middle quarters before Coach Tom Osborne re-inserted Frazier in the fourth quarter.
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Bruce Coulter
Bruce Coulter (born November 19, 1927) was a Canadian football player and coach. He played ten seasons for the Montreal Alouettes, winning the Grey Cup in 1949. He then when to coach 29 seasons for the Bishop's Gaiters. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Bruce Mathison
Bruce Martin Mathison (born April 25, 1959) is a former American football quarterback who played in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers (two stints), Buffalo Bills, and the Seattle Seahawks. He played college football at the University of Nebraska.
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Bruno Sammartino
Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino (born October 6, 1935) is an Italian-American former professional wrestler, best known for being the longest-running champion of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), holding the title across two reigns for over 11 years in total, as well as the longest single WWE Championship reign in professional wrestling history.
Sammartino's wrestling style was more mat-oriented which was typical of wrestlers from his era. His brawling, power moves, and personal charisma helped him become the most popular American wrestler in the 1960s and 1970s.
Born in Pizzoferrato, Abruzzo, Italy on October 6, 1935, Sammartino was the youngest of seven brothers and sisters. Four older siblings died during his time in Italy. During his childhood, Sammartino's family hid from German soldiers in a mountain called Valla Rocca, during the latter stages of World War II. During this time, Sammartino's mother, Emilia, would sneak into their German-occupied town for food and supplies. She once was captured and another time shot in the shoulder during such trips. Eventually, Sammartino caught rheumatic fever but was nursed back to health by his mother with hot blankets and leeches. In 1950, he moved to the United States and settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his father had already lived for several years.
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Buddy Humphrey
Loyie Nawlin "Buddy" Humphrey (September 29, 1935 – April 21, 1988) was an American collegiiate and Professional Football quarterback. He played professionally in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, and the St. Louis Cardinals, and in the American Football League for the Houston Oilers. Humphrey played college football at Baylor University and was drafted in the second round of the 1959 NFL Draft.
Humphrey attended and played high school football at Kilgore High School in Kilgore, Texas.
Humphrey attended and played college football at Baylor University, where he was an All-Conference player at quarterback. He scored the winning touchdown on a quarterback sneak in Baylor's 1957 Sugar Bowl victory.
Humphrey was inducted into the Baylor Hall of Fame.
Humphrey was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the second round of the 1959 NFL Draft, as result of a trade with the Washington Redskins. He was a member of the Rams during the 1959 and 1960 season. In 1961 he was traded to the Dallas Cowboys. Humphrey left the Cowboys at the end of the 1961 season and was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals from 1963 through 1965. In 1966 Buddy played for the American Football League's Houston Oilers.
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Buford McGee
Buford Lamar McGee (born April 16, 1960 in Durant, Mississippi) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League. He played nine seasons for the San Diego Chargers (1984–1986), the Los Angeles Rams (1987–1991) and the Green Bay Packers (1992). During his rookie season, McGee scored the winning touchdown on a 25-yard-run in overtime on November 18, 1984 as the Chargers defeated the 11-0 Miami Dolphins, 34-28.
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Buttercup Dickerson
Lewis Pessano Dickerson (October 11, 1858 – July 23, 1920) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball outfielder. Born in Tyaskin, Maryland, he played a total of seven seasons in the majors, splitting time between eight teams in three different leagues. He is credited as becoming the first Italian-American to play in the majors.
Dickerson began his career with the Cincinnati Reds in 1878 at the age of 19, and played 29 games in the outfield, but did not find himself a regular starting position until the following year. In 1879, he took over the regular left field job replacing Charley Jones, who had departed for the Boston Red Caps. That season proved to be his best season in the majors; he batted .294, drove in 57 runs, and his 14 triples led the league.
Dickerson departed the team the next season, moving on to the Troy Trojans, where he played mainly in center field. He then relocated to the Worcester Ruby Legs later that same season and split time in center with Harry Stovey. In 1881, he moved over to left field and had a very productive season, batting .316. He wouldn't play in the majors again until 1883, when he changed teams once again, playing 85 games with the Pittsburg Alleghenys. His production went down significantly, and he hit just .249.
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Buzz Fazio
Basil "Buzz" Fazio (February 7, 1908 – February 15, 1993) nicknamed the "Buzzer" was a pioneer and early American bowling star during the mid-20th century.
Known equally for his fierce competitiveness and audience pleasing theatrics, Fazio’s professional career spanned from the early 1940s to the late 1960s.
The six-time ABC (American Bowling Congress) and two-time PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) champion began his career during bowling’s golden era of "Team" play.
Born in Aultman, Ohio, near Akron, Fazio was brought to Detroit in 1947 to join the fabled Stroh’s Beer Bowling Team. The diminutive Fazio, who stood but 5’ 6" and weighed near 140, captained Stroh’s for nine seasons and continued the team’s tradition for success started by his predecessor and fellow Hall-of-Famer Joe Norris.
During the 1950s, the Fazio led Stroh’s Beer squad, featuring Lee Jouglard, Tom Hennessy, Pete Carter, Tony Lindeman, and Ed Lubanski, captured numerous tournaments including the ABC Team Championships in 1952, 1953 and 1954.
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Carl Furillo
Carl Anthony Furillo (March 8, 1922 – January 21, 1989), nicknamed "The Reading Rifle" and "Skoonj," was a right fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers. A member of seven National League champions from 1947 to 1959, he batted over .300 five times, winning the 1953 batting title with a .344 average – then the highest by a right-handed Dodger since 1900. Noted for his strong and accurate throwing arm, he recorded 10 or more assists in nine consecutive seasons, leading the league twice, and retired with the fifth most games in right field (1408) in NL history.
Furillo was born in Stony Creek Mills, Pennsylvania. He left school in the eighth grade, and often felt awkward among his teammates as a result; they would later recall that he rarely socialized with players who were better-educated. He signed with the Reading, Pennsylvania, team in the Interstate League, earning one of his nicknames with his powerful arm; the Dodgers were sufficiently impressed by his ability that they purchased the entire minor league franchise to acquire him. His other nickname, "Skoonj," came from the Italian word scungilli ("snail"), and was a comment on his lack of speed.
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Carmen Basilio
Carmine Basilio (born April 2, 1927) better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is an American former professional boxer who was a two weight world boxing champion. Some reports have suggested that Basilio changed his name from Carmine to Carmen before he began boxing, to sound more masculine.[citation needed]
Basilio began his professional boxing career by meeting Jimmy Evans on November 24 of 1948 in Binghamton, New York. He knocked Evans out in the third round, and five days later, he beat Bruce Walters in only one round and by the end of 1948 had completed four bouts.
He started 1949 with two draws, against Johnny Cunningham on January 5, and against Jay Perlin 20 days later. Basilio campaigned exclusively inside the state of New York during his first 24 bouts, going 19-3-2 during that span. His first loss was at the hands of Connie Thies, who beat him, by a decision in 6 on May 2 of '49. He and Cunningham had three more fights during that period, with Basilio winning by knockout in two on their second meeting, Cunningham by a decision in eight in their third and Basilio by decision in eight in their fourth.
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Carmen Salvino
Carmen Salvino (born November 23, 1933) is a professional ten-pin bowler and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). Salvino won 17 PBA Tour titles –- among them the 1962 PBA National Championship. He also won two PBA Senior Tour titles, including the 1984 Senior National Championship. The right-handed bowler was among the eight original inductees to the PBA Hall of Fame in 1975, and is also a member of the USBC Hall of Fame (inducted 1979), the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame (inducted 1985), the Illinois Sports Hall of Fame, and the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame.
Salvino now resides in Schaumburg, IL (USA), and has remained active in various capacities of the PBA -- including ambassador, executive board, and tournament committee positions, as well as one term as PBA president (1985-86).
Despite all his victories, Salvino listed a loss to his good friend Dick Weber in the finals of the 1988 PBA Showboat Senior Invitational among his most memorable tournaments. Although both Salvino and Weber were original PBA members when the organization was founded in 1958, the two had never met in a televised match until this 1988 tour stop.
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Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas, born Angelo Siciliano (October 30, 1892,Acri, Italy – December 23, 1972, Long Beach, New York), was the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program that was best known for a landmark advertising campaign featuring Atlas's name and likeness; it has been described as one of the longest-lasting and most memorable ad campaigns of all time.
According to Atlas, he trained himself to develop his body from that of a "scrawny weakling", eventually becoming the most popular muscleman of his day. He took the name "Charles Atlas" after a friend told him he resembled the statue of Atlas on top of a hotel in Coney Island and legally changed his name in 1922. His company, Charles Atlas Ltd., was founded in 1929 and, as of 2010, continues to market a fitness program for the "97-pound weakling" [44 kg]. The company is now owned by Jeffrey C. Hogue.
Born Angelo Siciliano in Acri, Calabria, Italy, in 1892, Angelino, as he was also called, moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1905, took the name Charles, and became a leather worker. He tried many forms of exercise initially, using weights, pulley-style resistance, and gymnastic-style calisthenics. Atlas claimed they did not build his body. Atlas was inspired by other fitness and health advocates who preceded him; world-renowned strongman Eugen Sandow and Bernarr MacFadden (a major proponent of "Physical Culture").
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Charley Trippi
Charles Louis Trippi (born December 14, 1921) is a former professional American football player for the Chicago Cardinals. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.
Trippi currently resides in Athens, Georgia. The football stadium at Pittston Area High School (Pittston, Pennsylvania) is named "Charley Trippi Stadium" in his honor.
Trippi attended the University of Georgia and was a two-time All-America selection. He played for Georgia in 1942 along side Heisman winner Frank Sinkwich. Georgia finished the season 11-1 and were named consensus national champions. He was named Most Valuable Player in the 1943 Rose Bowl in Georgia's 9-0 victory over UCLA. After his college career was interrupted by World War II, he completed his career at Georgia by playing in 1945 and 1946. He won the Maxwell Award in the 1946 season. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Trippi lives in Athens, Georgia with his second wife, Margaret. He had three children, Charles Jr., Brenda, and Jo Ann with his first wife, Virginia, who died in 1971. Charley Trippi's grandson, Nick Trippi, also resides in Athens, GA. He is a decorated military policeman in the United States Marine Corps having served two tours in Iraq where he received the Purple Heart, and one tour in Afghanistan. He is currently the head of security and surveillance at the Cloud, one of Athens largest night clubs.
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Chet Forte
Fulvio Chester "Chet" Forte, Jr. (August 7, 1935 in Hackensack, New Jersey – May 18, 1996 in San Diego, California) was an American television director and sports radio talk show host.
Forte's life in the sports world began as an All-State basketball star at Hackensack High School in Hackensack, New Jersey. He was named to the Star-Ledger's Team of the Century in 1999. From there he starred at Columbia University. In the 1956-57 season, he was named first-team All-American as a point guard, and beat out the legendary Wilt Chamberlain for player of the year. He was short for a basketball player, but shot with deadly accuracy from the outside—the approximate location of today's three-point circle.
After a brief career in the National Basketball Association, Forte began working in TV, joining ABC Sports in the mid-1960s.
In 1970, Forte was named the first director of Monday Night Football. His ability to present the game as entertainment spectacle as well as sporting event, under the mandate of executive producer Roone Arledge, made the show a huge success in both sports and pop culture.
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Chip Ganassi
Floyd "Chip" Ganassi, Jr (born May 24, 1958) is a former American racecar driver and current racecar owner.
He is currently the owner and president of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates which operates teams on the IndyCar, NASCAR and Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series circuit. His NASCAR operation is under the banner Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, after a merger with Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
His Indy team has won multiple Indianapolis 500 races and the CART championship.
On February 14, 2010, Jamie McMurray won the Daytona 500 in a Ganassi-owned car, and on May 30, 2010, Dario Franchitti won the Indianapolis 500 in one of Ganassi's cars, making him the first owner to win both races in the same year and joining Penske Racing as the only owners to win both races all time. On July 25, 2010, Jamie McMurray won the Brickyard 400, making Chip Ganassi the first team owner to win the "Triple Crown" of American auto racing.In January 30, 2011 his Grand-am time won the 24 Hours at Daytona, making Ganassi the first owner ever to win the Daytona 500, the Indy 500, the Brickyard 400, and the 24 Hours at Daytona inside a 12 moths period.
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Chris Chandler
Christopher Mark Chandler (born October 12, 1965) is a retired American football player, who played as a quarterback in the National Football League for 17 seasons. He is known for leading the Atlanta Falcons to a 14-2 season in 1998, followed up with an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIII.
Chris Chandler was born on October 12, 1965, in Everett, Washington. In high school, he was active in basketball, football, track and golf. As a high school quarterback, Chandler threw for 2,000 yards and 49 touchdowns.
In college, Chandler played for the University of Washington from 1984 to 1987. He finished third in the school's history in total offense with 4,442 yards and 32 touchdown passes, and ended his college career as the Offensive Player of the Game at the 1988 Senior Bowl. He graduated with an economics degree.
Chandler played in the NFL for 17 seasons, from 1988-2004. He played for eight teams, a record shared with Mark Royals, Karl Wilson, and Jeff Brady (although Chandler is the only player to have started for eight different teams). He threw for 28,484 yards, and had a career passer rating of 79.1. He has thrown at least one touchdown pass for seven different franchises, an NFL record. At the time of his retirement, he was ranked 30th in all-time pass completions, with 2328. He was continually bothered by injuries, which earned him the unflattering moniker of "Crystal Chandelier" amongst his detractors. Chandler holds the record for the oldest player to score a 2 pt. conversion (37 years, 358 days).[citation needed]
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Chris Leak
Christopher Patrick Leak (born May 3, 1985) is an American professional football player who is a quarterback for the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football for the University of Florida, and led the Florida Gators to victory in the 2007 BCS National Championship Game. Leak has also played professionally for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and the Jacksonville Sharks of the AFL.
Leak was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1985. He attended Independence High School in Charlotte, where he played for the Independence Patriots high school football team. In three years as the Patriots' starting quarterback, Leak led his team to three consecutive North Carolina 4-A state championships and losing only once as a starter under head coach Tommy Knotts. He set North Carolina state records for passing yards in a career (15,593) and completions in a career (1,013), as well as the national record for touchdown passes in a career (185). He was recognized as a Parade magazine All-American as well as Parade's Player of the Year in 2003. The Scout.com recruiting service ranked Leak as a five-star prospect and the third-best quarterback in the 2003 recruiting class.
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Dan Darragh
Daniel Meyer Darragh (born November 28, 1946 in Pittsburgh, PA), is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player. He played college football at William & Mary. A quarterback, he played professionally in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills from 1968 through 1969, and for the NFL Bills in 1970. He shared the starting job with Ed Rutkowski, Kay Stephenson and Tom Flores in 1968 while long-time starter and former AFL MVP Jack Kemp was out with an injury. He is now a practicing attorney in Pittsburgh.
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Dan Manucci
Daniel Joseph Manucci (born September 3, 1957) is a former American football quarterback and sports radio personality.
Manucci played his short National Football League career as a backup for the Buffalo Bills in the early 1980s, and returned to the team in 1987 during the player's strike, playing as a replacement player. He also played for the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts (1981) and the United States Football League's Arizona Wranglers (1983)
He is currently co-host of the sports radio talk show "Calling All Sports with Roc and Manuch;" the show was previously a weekend show on Sporting News Radio, but is currently a daily local show on KDUS in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Dan Marino
Daniel Constantine "Dan" Marino, Jr. (born September 15, 1961) is a retired American football quarterback who played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. The last quarterback of the Quarterback Class of 1983 to be taken in the first round, Marino became one of the most prolific quarterbacks in league history, holding or having held almost every major NFL passing record. Despite never being on a Super Bowl-winning team, he is recognized as one of the greatest quarterbacks in American football history. Best remembered for his quick release and powerful arm, Marino led the Dolphins to the playoffs ten times in his seventeen-season career. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2005.
Marino was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Italian and Polish ancestry. He is the oldest child of Daniel and Veronica (Kolczynski) Marino, and has two younger sisters, Cindi and Debbie. His father delivered newspapers for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Marino grew up on Parkview Avenue in the South Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and attended St. Regis Catholic Elementary School. He attended Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, where he started in baseball, and won Parade All-American honors in football. He was drafted in the 4th round by the Kansas City Royals baseball team in the 1979 amateur draft, but decided to play college football instead.
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Dan Pastorini
Dante "Dan" Anthony Pastorini (born May 26, 1949 in Sonora, California) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Pastorini was drafted by the Houston Oilers in the first round (third overall) of the 1971 NFL Draft out of Santa Clara University. The draft was dubbed "The Year of the Quarterback" with Pastorini taken third behind Jim Plunkett (first) and Archie Manning (second).
Pastorini was known as a tough quarterback throughout his career.[citation needed] From 1971 through 1979, Pastorini missed only five regular season games, playing through broken ribs and even a punctured lung at times. He was the first player to wear the now ubiquitous "flack jacket" under his uniform to protect broken ribs. He did not play behind what would be considered a quality offensive line until 1977, when the Oilers hired Joe Bugel as offensive line coach and brought in players like Greg Sampson and, later Leon Gray. By 1978, the Oilers had a running game with the drafting of future Hall-of-Famer Earl Campbell.
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Dante Lavelli
Dante Bert Joseph "Gluefingers" Lavelli (February 23, 1923 – January 20, 2009) was an American football end (wide receiver) who played for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference and National Football League from 1946 to 1956. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1975.
Lavelli played football for Hudson High School in Hudson, Ohio. He graduated in 1941. Hudson High's current stadium is named in honor of him.
Lavelli attended the Ohio State University, where the Browns' first coach Paul Brown was then coaching, but played just three games before a knee injury ended his season. While at Ohio State he was a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. He joined the U.S. Army before the start of the 1943 season to fight in World War II. He landed at Omaha Beach, and was in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
Nicknamed "Gluefingers", Lavelli was an original member of the Browns franchise, where he starred alongside American football legends like Otto Graham, Lou Groza and Marion Motley. Lavelli quickly became Graham's top passing target and led the AAFC in receiving as a rookie, also catching the game-winning touchdown pass in the 1946 championship game.
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Daryle Lamonica
Daryle Pat Lamonica (born July 17, 1941 in Fresno, California) is a former American collegiate and professional football quarterback who played in the American Football League, and later in the NFL.
Lamonica lettered in four sports and was an All-State Quarterback at Clovis High School in Clovis, California. Clovis High School renamed its football stadium Lamonica Stadium in 1970. After high school, he turned down a professional baseball contract with the Chicago Cubs. Lamonica spent his collegiate career at the University of Notre Dame, and was the team's starting quarterback for three seasons.
After a 20-for-28, 349-yard performance in the 1962 East-West Shrine Game at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, Lamonica was named the game's Most Valuable Player. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the 24th round of the 1963 AFL draft. He was also drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 12th round of the 1963 NFL draft. Lamonica played with Buffalo for four seasons, backing up Jack Kemp on a team that won back-to-back AFL championships in 1964 and 1965. He was known as "the Fireman", coming into games if Kemp was hurt or ineffective, and pulling out victories.
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David Humm
David Henry Humm (born April 2, 1952 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a former professional football player, a quarterback in the NFL from 1975-84 for the Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Colts, and Los Angeles Raiders. He was also an effective holder for a field goal or an extra point, with the unusual habit of arriving on the field with no shoulder pads, which tipped the opposing team that a fake field goal was unlikely.
He played college football at Nebraska, where he was a three year starter from 1972-74, under head coaches Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne. Humm, a left-hander, was selected by the Raiders in the fifth round of the 1975 NFL Draft, the 128th overall pick. He was primarily a reserve during his professional career.
After his playing career, Humm served as an analyst for Mutual Broadcasting System, the Las Vegas Posse, and the Oakland Raiders.
In 1988, Humm was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 36 and lost the use of his legs in 1997. He has set up a broadcasting studio in his home and continues as a color commentator for the Oakland Raiders.
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Dennis Claridge
Dennis Bert Claridge (born August 18, 1941 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at the University of Nebraska.
Claridge was a member of the 1965 NFL Champion Green Bay Packers, playing behind future Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr.
Claridge is now an orthodontist in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Dennis Shaw
Dennis Wendell Shaw (born March 3, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Shaw played college football for the San Diego State University Aztecs. While playing for the Aztecs he set an NCAA record by throwing nine touchdown passes in a 70-21 win against New Mexico State University on November 15, 1969. In that same season he set a single season school record for touchdown passes (39) and passes intercepted (26), the latter statistic led the NCAA for that season. He transferred from the University of Southern California and also played prior to that at Mount San Antonio Junior College.
Shaw then played four seasons for the Buffalo Bills and two for the St. Louis Cardinals. Shaw was named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year by the Associated Press in 1970 and is one of only five quarterbacks (along with Ben Roethlisberger, Vince Young, Matt Ryan, and Sam Bradford) to win the award.
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Dick Vitale
Richard J. "Dick" Vitale (pronounced /vaɪˈtæl/; born June 9, 1939), also known as "Dickie V", is an American basketball sportscaster. A former head coach in the college and professional ranks, he is well known as a college basketball broadcaster and for the enthusiastic and colorful remarks he makes during games, although many sports fans feel he subtracts from the sport coverage, rather than enhancing it. He is known for his catchphrases such as "baby" and "diaper dandy" (outstanding freshman player), as well as an overbearing and often bombastic style, and has authored nine books and appeared in several movies.
Vitale took his first job as a coach at an elementary school in Garfield, New Jersey in 1959. Eventually he moved up to the high school level to become head coach at Garfield High School for one season, and then at East Rutherford High School (his alma mater).
In 1971, Vitale moved to Rutgers University as an assistant coach under head coach Dick Lloyd. After two seasons there, he was hired in 1973 by the University of Detroit to become its head coach. Vitale took Detroit to the 32-team NCAA tournament in 1977. Vitale had a 78-30 record during his tenure at Detroit, which included a 21-game winning streak during the 1977 season. During that streak the Titans defeated the eventual champion Marquette on the road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Following the 1977 season, his fourth as Detroit head coach, Vitale was named the university's athletic director.
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Dieter Brock
Ralph Dieter Brock (born February 12, 1951, in Birmingham, Alabama), is a former Canadian Football League and National Football League player and now works as a coach. He is best remembered as the quarterback for the CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers where he led the league in passing for four years.
Nicknamed "The Birmingham Rifle", Brock is the only Blue Bombers player to win back-to-back CFL Most Outstanding Player awards in the 1980 and 1981 CFL seasons. In 1981 Brock broke Sam Etcheverry's 1956 record of 4,723 passing yards with 4,796 yards. Brock started his illustrious pro football career as a little used back-up quarterback for the Bombers in 1974. That season the team traded away their aging star passer Don Jonas to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for the much younger Chuck Ealey. About midway through the 1975 season Brock became the starter and that resulted in Ealey being sent to the Toronto Argonauts.
In 1983, Brock was traded to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for quarterback Tom Clements. This trade led to an exciting Grey Cup in 1984, as the Tiger-Cats and Blue Bombers faced each other in the championship game. Brock's Tiger-Cat team lost the game to Clements's Blue Bombers and Brock ended his career with many accomplishments, but without a Grey Cup victory. In 1985 Brock played for the Los Angeles Rams before retiring from football. Technically a rookie during his one season with the Rams, Brock led the team to an NFC Championship Game matchup with the Chicago Bears, and set team rookie records for passing yards (2,658), touchdown passes (16), and passer rating (81.8). All these records were still on the books at the end of 2006.
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Dino Ciccarelli
Dino Ciccarelli (born February 8, 1960) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League, primarily with the Minnesota North Stars. He scored 1,200 points in his NHL career. His 608 career NHL goals are also the most goals scored by a draft-eligible player who was not drafted by an NHL team. Ciccarelli was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2010.
Ciccarelli grew up playing minor hockey in his hometown of Sarnia, Ontario in the Southwestern Ontario Minor Hockey League of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association. He made Sarnia's Jr. 'B' hockey team as a 15-year-old in the fall of 1975 and ended up leading it in scoring with 45 goals and 43 assists for 88 points in just 40 games. He is one of two Sarnia Jr. 'B' graduates to go on to be elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame (the other being Phil Esposito, who led the Sarnia Legionnaires in scoring in 1961).
Ciccarelli joined the London Knights of the OMJHL as a 16-year-old for the 1976-77 season. In his first season with the Knights, Ciccarelli had 39 goals and 82 points in 66 games, finishing fifth in team scoring. In the playoffs, Ciccarelli had 11 goals and 24 points in 20 games, as London lost to the Ottawa 67's in the J. Ross Robertson Cup finals.
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Dolph Camilli
Adolph Louis Camilli (April 23, 1907 – October 21, 1997) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1941 after leading the league in home runs and runs batted in as the Dodgers won the pennant for the first time since 1920. He was the ninth NL player to hit 200 career home runs, and held the Dodgers franchise record for career home runs from 1942 to 1953. His son Doug was a major leaguer catcher in the 1960s. His brother, who boxed under the name Frankie Campbell, died of cerebral hemorrhaging following a 1930 match with Max Baer.
Born and raised in San Francisco, California attending Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Camilli had an eight-year minor league career before making his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs at the end of the 1933 season. He was traded to the Phillies in June 1934, and in each year from 1935 to 1937 he hit 25 or more home runs, batting a career-high .339 and leading the NL in on base percentage in the last season. But he also had a free-swinging style that led to numerous strikeouts; in his 1934 rookie season, he tied Hack Wilson's modern NL record of 94 strikeouts, and in 1935 he set a new league mark with 113.
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Dom DiMaggio
Dominic Paul DiMaggio (February 12, 1917 – May 8, 2009), nicknamed "The Little Professor", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. He played his entire 11-year baseball career for the Boston Red Sox (1940–1953). He was the youngest of three brothers who each became major league center fielders, the others being Joe and Vince.
An effective leadoff hitter, he batted .300 four times and led the American League in runs twice and in triples and stolen bases once each. He also led the AL in assists three times and in putouts and double plays twice each; he tied a league record by recording 400 putouts four times, and his 1948 totals of 503 putouts and 526 total chances stood as AL records for nearly thirty years. His 1338 games in center field ranked eighth in AL history when he retired. His 34-game hitting streak in 1949 remains a Boston club record.
He was the youngest of three brothers who each became major league center fielders: Joe was a star with the rival New York Yankees, and Vince played for five National League teams. The youngest of nine children born to Sicilian immigrants, Dom's small stature (5'9") and eyeglasses earned him the nickname "The Little Professor." A little ditty from Dom's playing days said:"Who hits the ball and makes it go? Dominic DiMaggio./ Who runs the bases fast, not slow? Dominic DiMaggio./ Who's better than his brother Joe? Dominic DiMaggio./ But when it comes to gettin' dough, they give it all to brother Joe."
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Don Allard
Donald J. Allard (April 21, 1936 – April 4, 2002) was an American college and Professional Football player originally selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1959 NFL Draft.
A quarterback, he played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the American Football League for the New York Titans in 1961 and the Boston Patriots in 1962, in the Canadian Football League for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1959-1960 and the Montreal Alouettes from 1961-1962, and in the Atlantic Coast Football League with the Boston Sweepers in 1964 and the New Bedford Sweepers in 1965. He was the highest drafted Boston College Eagles football player in school history until Matt Ryan in 2008 [1]
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Donna Caponi
Donna Caponi-Byrnes (born January 29, 1945) is an American professional golfer.
Caponi was born in Detroit, Michigan. The daughter of a club pro, Caponi began playing golf at the age of eight and joined the LPGA Tour at 20. Caponi captured her first win on the Tour four years later in 1970, winning the U.S. Women's Open. She won by one stroke, with a final-round score of 69 that included a birdie on the final hole. Only Mickey Wright had ever won back-to-back U.S. Women's Opens before Caponi, who also matched Wright's 72-hole scoring record of 287.
Caponi won 24 events on the LPGA Tour, including four major championships. She finished in the top ten on the money list ten times between 1968 and 1981, including second place finishes in 1976 and 1980. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001.
In 2009 Caponi was the recipient of the PGA First Lady of Golf Award.
She is currently an announcer on the Golf Channel, covering the Champions Tour.
From 1971 to 1981 Caponi was married to Ken Young and was known as Donna Caponi Young. After her divorce in 1981, she changed her name back to Donna Caponi. She married her longtime boyfriend Edward "Ted" Byrnes on July 29, 2006 and changed her name again, to Donna Caponi-Byrnes.
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Donna Lopiano
Dr. Donna Lopiano (born September 11, 1946) is the President and founder of Sports Management Resources, a consulting firm that focuses on bringing the knowledge of experienced, expert former athletics directors to assist scholastic and collegiate athletics departments in solving growth and development challenges.
Lopiano was the Chief Executive Officer of the Women's Sports Foundation from 1992–2007 and was recently named one of "The 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports" by Fox Sports. The Sporting News has also listed her as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Sports." She received her bachelor's degree from Southern Connecticut State University and her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California. She has been a college coach of men's and women's volleyball, women's basketball and softball.
As an athlete, she participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a nine-time All-American at four different positions in softball, a sport in which she played on six national championship teams including the Connecticut Brakettes. She is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame, the National Softball Hall of Fame and the Texas Women's Hall of Fame, among others. In 2003, she was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame.
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Doug Buffone
Douglas John Buffone (born June 27, 1944 in Yatesboro, Pennsylvania) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. Buffone, the son of a coal miner (whose parents were Italian immigrants from the southern province of Cosenza, regione di Calabria), attended high school at Shannock Valley High School in Rural Valley, Pennsylvania.
Buffone played linebacker and center from 1962 to 1965 at the University of Louisville. Buffone is one of only four players to lead UofL in tackles for three consecutive seasons. The others are Mark Sander, Tom Jackson ('70-72) and Tyrus McCloud ('94-96). He remains the Cardinals' No. 3 all-time tackler with 479, just nine stops behind the program's all-time leader Mark Sander ('87-90). Veteran head coach Frank Camp, who tutored NFL greats like Johnny Unitas, Lenny Lyles, Ernie Green and Ken Kortas, said Buffone was "the most complete ball player I've ever coached."
Following his collegiate career, Buffone was selected by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 1966 NFL Draft and the eighth round of the American Football League Draft by the San Diego Chargers. Buffone went on to play 15 seasons at linebacker for the Bears, retiring in 1980 as the all-time leader in games played for the legendary organization.
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Doug Flutie
Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is a former American and Canadian football quarterback. Flutie played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and United States Football League. He first rose to prominence during his career at Boston College, where he received the prestigious Heisman Trophy and the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award in 1984. His Hail Mary touchdown pass in a game against Miami on November 23, 1984 (dubbed "Hail Flutie") is considered among the greatest moments in college football and American sports history. Selected as the 285th pick in the 11th round by the Los Angeles Rams making him the lowest drafted Heisman Award winner among those who were drafted. Flutie played that year for the New Jersey Generals of the upstart United States Football League. In 1986 he signed with the NFL's Chicago Bears, and later played for the New England Patriots, becoming their starting quarterback in 1988.
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Drew Bledsoe
Drew McQueen Bledsoe (born February 14, 1972) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League, best known as the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots from 1993-2001. During the 1990s, he was considered the face of the Patriots franchise. Bledsoe, a Pro Bowler, All-American for the Washington State Cougars and #1 overall draft pick in the 1993 NFL Draft, announced his retirement from the sport on April 11, 2007.
Bledsoe attended Walla Walla High School and was a letterman in football and basketball. In football, he was named a first team All-State selection by the Tacoma News Tribune.
Bledsoe only stayed at Washington State for 3 years but still managed to put together a record-setting career. After gaining the starting job in the end of the 1990 season as a true freshman, he quickly became the face of the Cougars offense. In 1992 Bledsoe led his team to a 9-3 record (ranking #17 in the coaches poll and #15 in the AP) and a 31-28 win against the Utah Utes in the Copper Bowl, Bledsoe completed 30-46 passes for 476 yards and 2 TDs in the game. He also established WSU records in single-game passing yards (476), single-season pass completions (241), and single-season passing yards (3,246). He was named the Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year.
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Ed Abbaticchio
Edward James "Batty" Abbaticchio (April 15, 1877 – January 6, 1957) was the first Major League Baseball player and first professional football player of Italian ancestry.
Abbatticchio was primarily a shortstop and second baseman, though he also saw playing time in the outfield and at third base. Born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, he made his Major League debut in 1897 for the Philadelphia Phillies. Ed began his baseball career in 1897 playing semi-pro baseball in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He later played for the Boston Beaneaters and the Pittsburgh Pirates (he was on their 1909 World Series team, striking out in his only at-bat). He had initially decided to leave baseball in 1906, choosing to run a hotel instead; however, the Pirates coaxed him back, and he continued to play until 1910. He was an above-average fielder and base thief.
In addition to his baseball skills, he was among the first wave of professional football players. In 1895 he was a member of the first professional football team in the United States. In 1895, Abbaticchio was a member of the Latrobe Athletic Association football team, where he starred as a fullback and kicker. He is credited by Fielding H. Yost with developing the first spiral punt, enabling the ball to travel farther. Abbey was paid $50 a game for Latrobe.
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Ed Marinaro
Ed Marinaro (born March 31, 1950) is an American former football player turned actor.
Marinaro played high school football in New Milford, New Jersey, for the New Milford High School Knights.
Marinaro played college football at Cornell University where he set over 16 NCAA records. He was the first running back in NCAA history to run for 4,000 career rushing yards and led the nation in rushing in both 1970 and 1971.
Marinaro was runner-up to Pat Sullivan for the Heisman Trophy in 1971, the highest finish for an Ivy League player since the league de-emphasized football in the mid-1950s. Princeton's Dick Kazmaier won the award in 1951 when the Ivy was still considered a major football conference. Marinaro won the 1971 Maxwell Award and the UPI College Football Player of the Year as the top player in college football. He holds two NCAA records: most rushes per game in a season (39.6 in 1971) and career average carries per game (34.0, 1969-71).
While at Cornell, Marinaro was a member of Psi Upsilon and was selected for membership in the Sphinx Head Society. He went on to play professional football for six seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets and Seattle Seahawks, appearing in Super Bowl VIII and Super Bowl IX with the Vikings. He scored 13 touchdowns over his career.
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Ed Rutkowski
Edward John Anthony Rutkowski (born March 21, 1941 in Kingston, Pennsylvania) is a former American football player, and a former politician in Buffalo, New York. Rutkowksi was a noted college and professional American football player. A wide receiver, he was an American Football League All-Star in 1965, playing for the AFL's Buffalo Bills as a receiver, defensive back, punt and kickoff return man and backup quarterback from 1963 to 1968. In a famous Topps football card mixup, Rutkowski was shown on two Buffalo Bills' football cards, his own, and mistakenly on the card for Ray Abruzzese.
From 1972-78 and again in 1990, Rutkowski served as a color commentator on the Bills' radio broadcasts. In 1979, he became the County Executive of Erie County, New York, succeeeding Edward Regan, who stepped down to become New York State Comptroller. Rutkowski was elected to full terms in 1979 and 1983, following his one year unexpired term, for a total of nine years in office. In 1987, Rutkowski was defeated for reelection by Assemblyman Dennis Gorski, who, in his election campaign, claimed that Rutkowski had mismanaged county finances and spent the county into a deficit.
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Eddie Arcaro
George Edward Arcaro (February 19, 1916–November 14, 1997), known professionally as Eddie Arcaro, was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the U.S. Triple Crown twice. He is widely regarded as the greatest jockey in the history of American Thoroughbred horse racing. Arcaro was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of an impoverished taxi driver. Eventually nicknamed "Banana Nose" by his confreres, Arcaro won his first race in 1932 at the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico. Back in 1934, the inaugural year of Narragansett Park, Arcaro was a comparative unknown who rode many of his early career races at 'Gansett.
Arcaro won his first Kentucky Derby in 1938 aboard Lawrin. He is tied with Bill Hartack for most Derby wins with five, and has the most wins in the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes with six. He won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1941 on Whirlaway and again in 1948 on Citation. His other Kentucky Derby wins were Hoop Jr (1945) and Hill Gail(1952).
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Elbert Bloodgood
Elbert "Al" Lorraine Bloodgood (born September 5, 1901, date of death unknown) was a professional American football player in the National Football League (NFL). He played at the University of Nebraska. He graduated from Nebraska in 1924. He played five seasons in the NFL including the 1930 Green Bay Packers title team.
Elbert Bloodgood was born in Beatrice, Nebraska and attended Beatrice High School where became a Nebraska high school track state champion for the 100-yard dash in 1920, and the 440-yard dash and 880-yard relay in 1921. He graduated from high school in 1921.
Bloodgood attended DePauw University and then at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he earned varsity letters as a quarterback in 1923 and 1924. At Nebraska, he played during the tenure of head football coach Fred Dawson and alongside Ed Weir and Verne Lewellen.
Bloodgood was a Cornhusker on the 1923 team that defeated Notre Dame University and head coach Knute Rockne's legendary "Four Horsemen" for the second straight year. He was starting quarterback in the following year's 1924 game where the Cornhuskers lost 34-6 to the Fighting Irish.
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Eric Crouch
Eric Eugene Crouch (born November 16, 1978) is an American football quarterback for the Omaha Nighthawks. He also is a TV sports analyst and recreational equipment vendor.
Crouch played college football for the University of Nebraska. In 2001 Crouch won the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the most outstanding collegiate football player in the United States. He also won the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award, given annually to the best collegiate quarterback in the US. During that year running Nebraska's option offense, he completed 105 of 189 passes for 1,510 yards and seven touchdowns, while also rushing for 1,115 yards and 18 touchdowns. Crouch was the USA Today Nebraska Player of the Year, and a Parade All-American athlete at Millard North High School, where he was a two-time All-State selection at quarterback. Crouch appeared on the cover of the video game NCAA College Football 2K3.
Ankle surgery forced Crouch to redshirt for the 1997 co-national championship-winning season. In 1998, Bobby Newcombe began the season as the starting quarterback, but he was sidelined by a knee injury after the first game and Crouch took over the starting duties. Against UAB, Crouch rushed for two touchdowns and completed 11 of 17 passes in his first career start. 1998 proved to be a chaotic season for the Cornhuskers. Crouch made another start before being replaced by a healthy Bobby Newcombe. Newcombe started the next five games, but was pulled in the middle of a game because of a PCL strain. Senior walkon, Monte Christo, took over for Newcombe, and started the following week against Texas. With Texas leading 10-0 in the middle of the second quarter, Christo was pulled and replaced by Crouch. Crouch remained the starter for the rest of the season, which ended with a 23-20 loss to Arizona in the Holiday Bowl.
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Eric Dickerson
Eric Demetric Dickerson (born September 2, 1960) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. Dickerson played college football for Southern Methodist University, and was recognized as an All-American. He was selected in the first round of the 1983 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams, Indianapolis Colts, Los Angeles Raiders, and Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. During his NFL career, he rushed for over 13,000 yards.
Dickerson committed to Texas A&M before reconsidering and decided amongst Oklahoma, Southern California and SMU before his grandmother talked him into staying in the state of Texas to attend Southern Methodist University because she liked SMU coach Ron Meyer. Dickerson was the subject of recruiting controversy when he started driving a new Pontiac Trans-Am during his senior year. At the time he said his grandmother from Mexico bought it for him.
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Ernie DiGregorio
Ernest (Ernie) DiGregorio, known as "Ernie D." (born January 15, 1951, in North Providence, Rhode Island), is an American former National Basketball Association player. He was the 1973-74 NBA Rookie of the Year and holds the NBA rookie record for assists in a single game with 25. Due to a severe knee injury suffered early in DiGregorio's professional career,[citation needed] he played only five NBA seasons.
DiGregorio played on the 1968 Rhode Island (Class B) champions at North Providence High School.
After playing for the Providence College Friars, DiGregorio was drafted by the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association but opted instead for the NBA.
He was selected third overall by the Buffalo Braves in the 1973 NBA Draft out of Providence College, and won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 1973-74 after averaging 15.2 points and leading the league in both free throw percentage and assists per game. DiGregorio still holds the NBA rookie record for assists in a single game with 25 (a record now shared with Nate McMillan). He would never again come close to that level of production, but managed to have a decent NBA career, most of which he spent with the Braves.
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Ernie Lombardi
Ernesto Natali "Ernie" Lombardi (April 6, 1908 – September 26, 1977), was a Major League Baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Robins, the Cincinnati Reds, the Boston Braves and the New York Giants during a Hall of Fame career that spanned 17 years, from 1931 to 1947. He had several nicknames, including "Schnozz", "Lumbago", "Bocci", "The Cyrano of the Iron Mask" and "Lom". Bill James called him "the slowest man to ever play major league baseball well." [1] He is listed at 6'3" and 230 lbs, but he probably approached 300 lbs towards the end of his career. He was also known as a gentle giant and this made him hugely popular among Cincinnati fans.
Ernie Lombardi started his professional baseball career for his hometown Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League. He hit well (over .350 with power in 1929 and 1930) and had a strong arm. His talents were soon noticed by the Brooklyn Dodgers who purchased his contract for $50,000. Lombardi played his rookie season for the Robins in 1931 and played well (batting .297). Brooklyn had too many quality catchers at the time and Robins manager Wilbert Robinson contemplated using the strong-armed Lombardi as a pitcher. He was traded to the Cincinnati Reds shortly before the start of spring training for the 1932 season. Lombardi flourished his first year in Cincinnati, batting .303 with 11 home runs and 68 runs batted in. He became a national star in 1938 when he hit a league-leading .342 with 19 home runs, drove in 95 runs, and won the National League's MVP award. Ernie Lombardi became one of the Reds' most productive and popular players. He also has the distinction of catching both of Reds left-hander Johnny Vander Meer's back-to-back no-hitters, accomplished on June 11 and June 15, 1938. Vander Meer's feat has never been matched. Lombardi's hitting skills and leadership helped the Reds to the National League pennant in 1939 and 1940, and the World Series title in 1940.
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Fran Nagle
Fran Nagle was an American football player and coach in the United States.
Nagle graduated from high school in West Lynn, Massachusetts before playing at the University of Nebraska. As a quarterback at Nebraska, Nagle was the statistical leader for passing yards from 1949 and 1950. He holds a career Nebraska top 25 passing record at 1,289 yards in 190 attempts with 41.6% completions and 13 touchdowns. Nagle was the 43rd pick in the fourth round National Football League draft pick as a back for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1951. In 1952 he was signed by the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League but a training camp injury ended his career.
In 1950, Nagle was chosen as a Big Seven Conference All-Conference Selection. In 1951, Nagle played in the Senior Bowl, the College All-Star game, and the East-West Shrine Game. Nagle was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 1992.
Nagle was the 25th head football coach for the Doane College Tigers located in Crete, Nebraska and he held the position of head coach at Doane for two seasons, from 1953 and 1954. His coaching record at Doane was 7 wins, 9 losses, and 2 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him 13th at Doane in total wins and 22nd at Doane in winning percentage (.444).
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Franco Columbu
Franco Columbu (born August 7, 1941) is an Italian actor, former champion bodybuilder and World's Strongest Man competitor.
Columbu was born in Ollolai, Sardinia (Italy). Starting out his athletic career as a boxer, Columbu progressed into the sport of Olympic Weightlifting, powerlifting and later bodybuilding, winning the title of Mr. Olympia in 1976 and 1981. At 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) in height (some magazines reported as short as 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m)),[citation needed] Columbu is shorter than most of his bodybuilding competitors, but that did not prevent him from achieving widespread success.
In 1977, Columbu competed in the first World's Strongest Man competition and was in first place in total points during the competition; a remarkable outing, considering that Franco weighed much less than all his competitors. Then came the refrigerator race, which called for a downhill race in which a heavy, bulky, unwieldy refrigerator is strapped to the racer's back. While ahead, Franco stumbled, and was shown on national television collapsing with a grotesquely dislocated leg. This ended his participation in the World's Strongest Man contest (in the end, he finished in fifth place). After a court settlement, he received a reported $1 million in compensation for his injury. It took six hours of surgery to remove all the muscle and fix his leg. Doctors told him he would never walk again, but Columbu fully recovered in three years.[citation needed] After Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback victory in the 1980 Mr. Olympia, Franco followed suit and won the 1981 Mr. Olympia.
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Franco Harris
Franco Harris (born March 7, 1950) is a former American football player. He played his NFL career with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks.
In the 1972 NFL Draft he was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round, the 13th selection overall. His selection by the team was considered controversial at the time, as many thought the team would select his Penn State teammate, Lydell Mitchell. (Mitchell was later selected by the Baltimore Colts in the draft.) He played his first 12 years in the NFL with the Steelers; his 13th and final year (1984) was spent with the Seattle Seahawks. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2011.
Harris was born in Fort Dix, New Jersey. His African-American father served in World War II; his mother was a "war bride" from Italy. Harris graduated from Rancocas Valley Regional High School in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey and then attended Penn State University. While playing for Penn State's Nittany Lions, Harris served primarily as a blocker for the All-American running back Lydell Mitchell, though he amassed 2,048 yards rushing (17th in PSU history) with 24 touchdowns and averaged over 5 yards per carry, while also catching 29 passes for 358 yards and another touchdown. He led the team in scoring in 1970.
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Frank Carideo
Francis F. "Frank" Carideo (August 4, 1908 – March 17, 1992) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He played quarterback at the University of Notre Dame from 1928 to 1930, where he was a two-time All-American. Carideo served as the head football coach at the University of Missouri from 1932 to 1934, compiling a record of 2–23–2. He was also the head basketball coach at Mississippi State University from 1935 to 1939, tallying a mark of 43–39. Carideo was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1954.
Carideo was born in in Mount Vernon, New York. He attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where he played quarterback for coach Knute Rockne's Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team from 1928 to 1930. As a college football player he was considered so good, that even Rockne said he was the best quarterback ever. During the 1929 and 1930 seasons, the Fighting Irish posted a perfect 19–0 record with him as the starter, and he is remembered as a "big play maker."
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Frank Coltiletti
Frank Coltiletti (April 23, 1904 - March, 1987) was an American Hall of Fame jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.
Coltiletti began his professional riding career in 1919 when he was just fifteen years old. Almost immediately he became one of the top jockeys in the country, competing two years after he began racing in his first American Classic Races. Of his eight mounts in the Kentucky Derby, his best finishes were a second aboard Sweep All to winner Twenty Grand in the 1931 running and third place finishes in the 1926 and 1929 editions.
Coltiletti made seven appearances in the Preakness Stakes. After his fourth place finish in his 1921 Derby debut, the seventeen-year-old won the Preakness aboard Broomspun. In addition to his 1921 win, his next best result was a third with Rialto in 1923 on whom he also finished third in the Belmont Stakes.
Coltiletti retired in 1934 after fifteen years in racing. He was inducted into National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1970 and the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.
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Frank Demaree
Joseph Franklin Demaree (June 10, 1910 – August 10, 1958) born Joseph Franklin Dimaria[citation needed] in Winters, California, was an American baseball outfielder. He played all or part of twelve seasons in the majors for the Chicago Cubs (1932–33 and 1935–38), New York Giants (1939–41), Boston Braves (1941–42), St. Louis Cardinals (1943) and St. Louis Browns (1944).
Demaree helped the Cubs win the National League pennant in 1932, 1935 and 1938. During his only season with the Cardinals he helped them to win the National League pennant in 1943. During his last season he helped the Browns win the American League pennant. He was named to the National League All-Star Team in 1936 and 1937.
He finished 7th in voting for the 1936 National League MVP for playing in 154 Games, having 605 At Bats, 93 Runs, 212 Hits, 34 Doubles, 3 Triples, 16 Home Runs, 96 RBI, 4 Stolen Bases, 49 Walks, .350 Batting Average, .400 On-base percentage, .496 Slugging Percentage, 300 Total Bases and 17 Sacrifice Hits.
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Frank Filchock
Frank Joseph Filchock (October 8, 1916 – June 20, 1994) was an American and Canadian football tailback/quarterback and coach. As a consequence of a famous scandal regarding the 1946 NFL Championship game, he was suspended by the National Football League from 1947 to 1950 for associating with gamblers.
Born in 1916 in the small Pennsylvania mining town of Crucible, Filchock was a star player at Redstone Township High School and later at Indiana University. After graduating from university, he became the second pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates (now the Pittsburgh Steelers) in the second round of the 1938 NFL draft. The Pirates' first first-round draft choice that year was Byron (Whizzer) White of Colorado, who later became a U.S. Supreme Court judge. Filchock appeared in six games for the Pirates in 1938, and then was sold to the Washington Redskins.
At Washington he appeared in six more games in the 1938 season, as understudy to Sammy Baugh. He remained with the Redskins through the 1941 season, part of the time alternating quarters with Baugh. During this period of alternation, the two were known as Slingin' Sam and Flingin' Frank.
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Frank Reich
Frank Michael Reich, Jr. (born December 4, 1961) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, New York Jets, and the Detroit Lions. For a time, he had the distinction of having led his team to the biggest comeback victory ever in both the collegiate and professional ranks. Reich and starter Jim Kelly formed one of the longest-tenured backup-and-starter tandems, playing together for nine years (1986–1994). He is currently the wide receivers coach for the Arizona Cardinals.
Reich attended Cedar Crest High School in Lebanon, Pennsylvania where he played baseball, football, and basketball. Reich started on the football team for his last two years in high school. He played quarterback in the Big 33 Football Classic (known as the "Super Bowl of high school games") his senior year of high school.
Reich was accepted to the University of Maryland on a football scholarship and played backup to Boomer Esiason the first few years. The biggest highlight of his college career was the comeback he led against the University of Miami Hurricanes on November 10, 1984 at the Orange Bowl Stadium. Reich came off the bench to play for Stan Gelbaugh, who had previously replaced him as the starter after Reich separated his shoulder in the fourth week of the season against Wake Forest. Miami quarterback Bernie Kosar had led the 'Canes to a 31-0 lead at halftime. At the start of the third quarter, Reich led the Maryland Terrapins on multiple scoring drives. Three touchdowns in the third quarter and a fourth at the start of the final quarter turned what was a blowout into a close game. With the score 34-28 Miami, Reich hit Greg Hill with a 68-yard touchdown pass which deflected off the hands of Miami safety Darrell Fullington to take the lead. Maryland scored once more to cap a 42-9 second half, and won the game 42-40, completing what was then the biggest comeback in NCAA history.
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Frank Solich
Frank Solich (born September 8, 1944) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at Ohio University, a position he has held since the 2005 season. From 1998 to 2003, Solich served as the head coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he also played fullback under Bob Devaney in the mid-1960s.
Solich grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Holy Name High School in 1962, where he earned all-state, All-America and all-scholastic honors. He was a part of Bob Devaney’s first recruiting class at Nebraska, and became a standout for the Huskers in the mid-1960s, where he earned the nickname "Fearless Frankie". An All-Big Eight fullback and co-captain of the Huskers’ 1965 team, his playing career earned him induction into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 1992. In NU's 27–17 win over Air Force in 1965, he ran for 204 yards on 17 carries, becoming the first Husker to run for 200 yards in a game, and subsequently the first Husker to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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Frank Viola
Frank John Viola, Jr. (born April 19, 1960) is an American former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Minnesota Twins (1982–1989), New York Mets (1989–91), Boston Red Sox (1992–1994), Cincinnati Reds (1995) and Toronto Blue Jays (1996). A three-time All-Star, he was named World Series MVP with the Twins in 1987 and won the AL Cy Young Award in 1988. Long-time Tigers manager Sparky Anderson said of Viola, "...He's an artist; I love watching him work..." His overall career stats are impressive, with a 3.73 ERA, 176-150 record, 74 complete games, and 16 shutouts in 421 games.
He batted and threw left-handed, and was nicknamed "Sweet Music" – a nickname he picked up after a Minnesota sports writer declared that when Viola pitched, there was "Sweet Music' in the Dome. The nickname was a play on the fact that his last name is also a name of a musical instrument. A fan began displaying a banner bearing the phrase in the outfield's upper deck whenever Viola pitched. Twins fans considered the banner to be a good luck charm. The banner is now property of the Minnesota Historical Society. It was again displayed when Viola was inducted into the Twins Hall of Fame. Frank was honored as a member of the Twins' "All Dome" team in 2009.
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Frankie Genaro
Frank "Frankie" Genaro (né DiGennaro, August 26, 1901 – December 27, 1966) was a former Olympic gold medalist and boxing world flyweight champion. He is credited with engaging in 130 bouts, recording 96 victories (19 KO's), 26 losses, 8 draws and 4 No Decisions.
Genaro won the flyweight Gold Medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp on August 24, two days before his 19th birthday.
He turned pro that same year and almost immediately was fighting world class flyweights, scoring wins over Charley (Phil) Rosenberg and Pancho Villa. In 1923, he captured the American flyweight title with another win over Villa and decisioned future bantamweight champ Bud Taylor.
Genaro lost his American title to Fidel LaBarba in 1925 and dropped a decision to former world champ Newsboy Brown in his next outing. In 1928 he defeated Frenchy Belanger to win the NBA flyweight crown. He then lost the title in his first defense against Emile Pladner, but regained the title when he defeated Pladner in a rematch one month later.
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Fred Dawson
Frederick Thomas Dawson (April 26, 1884 – August 18, 1965) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Columbia University (1918–1919), the University of Nebraska (1921–1924), the University of Denver (1925–1928), and the University of Virginia (1931–1933). Dawson also coached the basketball team at Columbia during the 1918–1919 season and baseball at Princeton University in 1918 and at Columbia in 1919.
Dawson was born to Sylvester and Elizabeth Peers Dawson, the 11th of 12 children. Dawson was a 1910 graduate of Princeton University.
Health problems eventually forced Dawson to leave the coaching field. After retiring from coaching, he became an industrial psychologist and a well known public speaker. Dawson died on August 18, 1965 at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Gary Beban
Gary Joseph Beban (born August 5, 1946) is a former American football player. Son of an Italian-born mother and a first generation Croatian-American father, Beban won the 1967 Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in college football, and the Maxwell Award, while playing quarterback for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins.
Beban, known as "The Great One", excelled in both academics and athletics, majoring in European history while quarterbacking the Bruins across three straight victorious seasons. As UCLA quarterback, he was named to the all-conference team three times, and led the Bruins to a 24-5-2 record. His school record for total offense lasted 15 years. As a sophomore, he threw two touchdown passes in the last four minutes to rally the Bruins over crosstown arch-rival, USC, 20-16. In the 1966 Rose Bowl, Beban scored both UCLA's touchdowns in the Bruin's 14-12 victory over #1 ranked Michigan State.
In his senior year, Beban played in the 1967 USC vs. UCLA football game, widely regarded as one of the best college football games of all time. The game pitted #4 AP/#2 UPI ranked USC and their Heisman Trophy-candidate running back O.J. Simpson, against the #1 ranked Bruins and Beban—also a Heisman Trophy candidate—with both the AAWU and National championships, to say nothing of hometown bragging rights, on the line. Badly injured with torn rib cartilage and in great pain, Beban still threw for over 300 yards and two touchdown passes to lead the Bruins in scoring. Though USC eventually won the game, 21-20, by the margin of a blocked PAT, and went on to the Rose Bowl, Gary Beban would go on to win the Heisman Trophy. Both Beban and Simpson were featured on the cover of the November 20 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine. Commenting on Beban's heroic effort playing through injury, famed L.A. Times columnist Jim Murray wrote that if "Gary Beban wins the Heisman Trophy, they ought to fill it with aspirin"
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Gary Marangi
Gary Angelo Marangi (born July 29, 1952 in Rockville Centre, New York) is a former quarterback for the Boston College Eagles and Buffalo Bills.
Marangi played football at Boston College from 1971-1973. He completed 235 of 447 passes for 2,739 yards, 23 touchdowns, and 19 interceptions. Although Boston College was 20-13 during Marangi's tenure, including a 9-2 sophomore season, the Eagles never made it to a bowl game.
Marangi was selected by the Bills in the 3rd Round (70th pick overall) of the 1974 NFL Draft. He was the backup quarterback in 1974, behind Joe Ferguson. He appeared in 3 games, completing 9 of 18 passes for 140 yards, 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. In 1975 he appeared in 5 games, completing 13 of 33 passes for 235 yards, 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. In 1976 Joe Ferguson was leading all quarterbacks in most statistical categories going into the 7th game against the New England Patriots, Ferguson sustained a back injury and was sidelined for the season.
Gary is currently a Dean of Patchogue-Medford High School in Medford, New York. He served as the Offensive Coordinator for their football team and was the quarterbacks coach at Connetquot High School. He is now the offensive coordinator at Sachem High School East.
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Gene Brito
Gene Herman Brito (November 23, 1925 – June 8, 1965) was an American football Defensive end in the National Football League who played nine seasons for the Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Rams from 1951 to 1960.
Brito, born to a Spanish-American father and Mexican-American mother, grew up in Lincoln Heights, a then mostly Italian American neighborhood, located in Los Angeles, California. He attended Lincoln High School where he was a standout athlete.
Brito graduated from Loyola Marymount University (then Loyola University) as a multi-sport athlete, starring in football, baseball, basketball, and track.
Brito began his career as an offensive end, catching 45 passes in his first two seasons before being moved to defensive end in 1953. He was named the NFL Player of the Year by the Washington D.C. Touchdown Club after the 1955 season. Brito played in the Canadian Football League for the Calgary Stampeders in 1954 where he was an All-conference selection in the CFL's Western Conference. In the NFL he was a five-time Pro Bowler in 1953 and from 1955 to 1958. He was selected as one of the 70 Greatest Redskins, a list compiled by the Redskins in 2002 to commemorate the 70-year anniversary of the team. He is one of four defensive ends on the team, along with Dexter Manley, Ron McDole and Charles Mann.
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Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen (/ˈsɑrəzɛn/; February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999) was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers (along with Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods) to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam: U.S. Open in 1922, 1932, PGA Championship in 1922, 1923, 1933, British Open in 1932, and The Masters in 1935.
Sarazen was born in Harrison, New York as Eugenio Saraceni. Sarazen began caddying at age ten at local golf clubs, took up golf himself, and gradually developed his skills; he was essentially self-taught. He used the somewhat unusual, at the time, interlocking grip to hold the club.
Sarazen took a series of club professional jobs in the New York area from his mid-teens, and worked hard on his game. Sarazen won his first major championships – the 1922 U.S. Open and PGA Championship – at age 20. He was a contemporary and great rival of Bobby Jones, who was born in the same year; Sarazen also had many great battles with Walter Hagen, who was about ten years older. Sarazen, Jones, and Hagen were the world's dominant players during the 1920s. Rivalries among the three great champions significantly expanded interest in golf around the world during this period, and made the United States the world's dominant golf power for the first time, taking over this position from Great Britain.
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George Bork
George Bork (born February 8, 1942 in Mount Prospect, Illinois) was an American football player in the 1960s. The 6-1, 185 pound Bork rewrote the Northern Illinois University football record book with some help from end Hugh Rohrschneider during his junior and senior years at the DeKalb school. In 1962, Bork broke 14 college passing records ranging from yardage gained to best completions percentage. The following year he bettered 10 of his own records, tied one and set nine more for a total of 20. He also set a record of 244 pass completions during the 1963 NIU season. He was the first college quarterback at any level to throw for 3,000 yards in one season. Bork first played football at Arlington High School, where he was an all-conference selection. Offered a basketball scholarship to Michigan, the athlete turned it down because he wanted to play football.
Bork played in 1964 to 1967 with the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League before signing with the Chicago Owls of the Continental Football League in 1968.
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George Musso
George Francis Musso (April 8, 1910 in Collinsville, Illinois — September 5, 2000 in Edwardsville, Illinois) was an American National Football League lineman, playing both offensive guard and tackle as well as defensive middle guard. His twelve-year career was spent entirely with the Chicago Bears.
Musso was the son of a coal miner who starred in high school sports in Collinsville, Illinois, and was therefore offered an athletic grant to attend James Millikin University. His father, who initially planned to pull him out of school after he completed his "primary" education, grudgingly allowed George to attend college.
Musso attended Millikin University and was a standout in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Millikin was in the "Little 19" conference that included such teams as Eureka, Lombard, and Augustana. In 1929, Musso played against future President Ronald Reagan, who played guard for Eureka College. Reagan, who weighed about 175 pounds, and Eureka lost to Musso and Millikin 45-6. Musso was already larger than most linemen of his era, playing college ball at 6' 2", 255 pounds. In 1933, George played in the East-West All-Star game, held in Chicago; it was there he first got the attention of George Halas.
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George Ratterman
George William Ratterman (November 12, 1926 – November 3, 2007) was an American Football player in the All-America Football Conference and the National Football League.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1944. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame from 1944 through 1946, primarily as a backup to quarterbacks Frank Dancewicz and Johnny Lujack. He was the last of only four students in Notre Dame history to earn letters in four different sports (football, basketball, baseball, tennis). Legendary football coach Frank Leahy called him "the greatest all-around athlete in the history of Notre Dame."
He played professional football with the Buffalo Bills of the AAFC from 1947 to 1949, when the league merged with the NFL. In his first year, 1947, at the age of 20, Ratterman threw 22 touchdown passes, setting a professional football rookie record that stood for more than twenty years. He continued his career with the New York Yanks of the NFL in 1950 and 1951, the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League in 1951 and finished with the Cleveland Browns of the NFL from 1952 through 1956. He led the NFL in TD passes in 1950 while playing for New York. In 1956, he became the Browns' starting quarterback, succeeding Otto Graham, and was first player in the history of football to wear a radio receiver in his helmet, which allowed Cleveland Coach Paul Brown to call plays using a microphone instead of sending in messenger players for each play. Ratterman was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, October 8, 1956. A leg injury on October 21, 1956, ended his football career.
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Gerry Dattilio
Gerry Dattilio (born June 11, 1953) is a former professional Canadian football quarterback in the Canadian Football League.
Dattilio played his high school football with the Chomedey Chiefs in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he won a City Championship by beating St. Thomas High School of Pointe-Claire, Quebec. He also played in the Quebec Junior Football League with the Verdun Maple Leafs.
He attended the University of Northern Colorado playing for the Bears from 1972 to 1974. He led the Bears in rushing as a quarterback in 1972 and 1973 and led the team in passing yards in both 1973 (1,367 yards, 18 TDs) and 1974 (1,367 yards, 14 TDs). He ranks 10th on the Bears' all-time passing yards list with 2,953 passing yards and was an All-Great Plains Conference player in both 1973 and 1974.
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Gino Cappelletti
Gino Cappelletti (born March 26, 1934) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player. He played at the University of Minnesota, and was a star in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots. He was the 1964 American Football League Most Valuable Player, a member of the Patriots Hall of Fame and of their All-1960s Team, the American Football League Hall of Fame, and a present announcer for the radio broadcasts of the Patriots' games.
Cappelletti attended the University of Minnesota, finishing his career there in 1954 as quarterback, in addition to his placekicking duties. Gino kicked just one field goal in his college career.
Cappelletti played quarterback for the Sarnia Imperials of the ORFU in Canada during 1955. He joined Toronto Balmy Beach in 1956, but was drafted into the U.S. Army in mid-season, returning to Canada in 1958. Cappelletti signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL, but was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, later cut, and went back to the ORFU, leading the Sarnia Golden Bears (the team changed its name in 1956) to the league championship.
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Gino Marchetti
Gino John Marchetti (born January 2, 1926) is a former professional American football player in the National Football League. A defensive end, he played in 1952 for the Dallas Texans and from 1953 to 1966 for the Baltimore Colts.
Marchetti enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduating high school in Antioch, California and fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a machine gunner during World War II. Upon returning home after the war, he attended Modesto Junior College (Calif.) for a year before joining the football program at the University of San Francisco, where his team enjoyed an undefeated season in 1951. He was drafted in the second round with the 14th overall pick by the New York Yanks in 1952. In 2004, Marchetti was voted to the East-West Shrine Game Hall of Fame.
During his rookie season, the Yanks became the Dallas Texans, which became the Baltimore Colts in 1953. Marchetti played 13 seasons with the Colts and helped them win NFL Championships in 1958 and 1959. During his career, he was noted for being effective against the run and a relentless pass-rusher. He was voted "the greatest defensive end in pro football history" by the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972.
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Gino Torretta
Gino Louis Torretta (born August 10, 1970) is a former American college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons. He played college football for the University of Miami, won the Heisman Trophy in 1992, and was a member of the Miami Hurricanes' national championship teams of 1989 and 1991. A seventh-round pick in the 1993 NFL Draft, he was a member of several NFL teams, but never became a regular starter as a pro. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010.
Torretta was born in Pinole, California. He graduated from Pinole Valley High School, where he was a standout high school football quarterback for the Pinole Spartans.
Torretta accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Miami, where he played for the Miami Hurricanes football team from 1989 to 1992.
As a quarterback for the Hurricanes, Torretta spent his first two seasons mostly on the bench behind then starting quarterback Craig Erickson, with his only significant playing time coming with three starts in 1989 after Erickson injured his throwing hand. During that span, however, the then-unknown Torretta lit up San Diego State for 485 yards, setting a school record for most passing yards in a game that has not since been broken.
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Giorgio Chinaglia
Giorgio Chinaglia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒordʒo kiˈnaʎʎa]; January 24, 1947 – April 1, 2012) was a football striker from Italy. He grew up and played his early football in Cardiff, Wales, and began his career with Swansea Town in 1964. He later returned to Italy to play for Massese, Internapoli and S.S. Lazio in 1969. He played international football for Italy, including two appearances at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
In 1976, Chinaglia left Lazio to sign with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League. With the Cosmos team that also featured Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer, Chinaglia won four league titles, and retired in 1983 as NASL's all-time leading scorer with 243 goals.
In 2000, Chinaglia was inducted into the United States National Soccer Hall of Fame and was named the greatest player in Lazio's history during the club's centenary celebrations.
Chinaglia was born in Carrara, Tuscany in 1947, but in 1955, he moved to Cardiff, Wales with his father Mario, mother Giovanna and his sister Rita, because of unemployment in Italy following World War II. Because his family was poor, Chinaglia said, "All four of us lived in one room," he says, "My father was an ironworker and it was tough. I used to take the milk left on people's porches and drink it for breakfast."
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Glenn Presnell
Glenn Emery "Press" Presnell (July 28, 1905 – September 13, 2004) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He set the NFL single-season scoring record in 1933 and led the league in total offense. He was the last surviving member of the Detroit Lions inaugural 1934 team and helped lead the team to its first NFL championship in 1935. He also set an NFL record with a 54-yard field goal in 1934, a record which was not broken for 19 years.
Born in Gilead, Nebraska, Presnell attended DeWitt High School and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He played college football as a halfback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team from 1925 to 1927. In 1925, Presnell led Nebraska to a 14-0 victory over an Illini team that included the "Galloping Ghost", Red Grange. As one writer put it, "all the galloping was done by Presnell this day." Presnell was selected as a first-team player on the 1927 College Football All-America Team.
After leaving Nebraska, Presnell played football for the Ironton Tanks in Ironton, Ohio. He was a player-coach for the team and also taught science at Ironton High School. Presnell was a halfback in Ironton's single wing offense and also played on defense at what would later be considered the safety position. Although not officially part of the National Football League, the Tanks played against teams in the league. In 1930, Presnell led Ironton to victories over both the New York Giants and the Chicago Bears. Against the Giants, the Tanks trailed 12-6 with three seconds left. Presnell threw a touchdown pass to Gene Alford and then kicked the extra point to give Ironton a 13-12 victory over a Giants team that finished in second place in the NFL. He also scored two touchdowns against the Bears, including an 88-yard run.
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Gus Frerotte
Gustave Joseph "Gus" Frerotte (pronounced /fəˈrɒt/; born July 31, 1971 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania) is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the seventh round of the 1994 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tulsa.
Frerotte, who was selected to the 1997 Pro Bowl while with the Redskins, also played for the Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Cincinnati Bengals, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, and St. Louis Rams.
Frerotte attended Ford City High School in Ford City, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. In high school, he was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. Frerotte graduated in 1989.
Frerotte is the cousin of Mitch Frerotte, an offensive lineman who played for the Buffalo Bills during the 1990s.
At the University of Tulsa, he started eight games as a redshirt freshman in 1990 after quarterback T.J. Rubley was injured, starting his first career game at Oklahoma. He finished his college career as the school's second-ranked all-time passer, behind Rubley. During his career, he threw for 5,480 yards and 32 touchdowns on 432-of-860 passing. His 2,871 passing yards as a senior were the most by a Tulsa quarterback in 28 years. As a sophomore, Frerotte also handled punting duties for the team and averaged 35.5 yards per punt.
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Gus Mancuso
August Rodney (Gus) Mancuso (December 5, 1905 – October 26, 1984), nicknamed "Blackie", was a professional baseball player, coach, scout and radio sports commentator. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals (1928, 1930–32, 1941–42), New York Giants (1933–38, 1942–44), Chicago Cubs (1939), Brooklyn Dodgers (1940) and Philadelphia Phillies (1945).
Mancuso was known for his capable handling of pitching staffs and for his on-field leadership abilities. He was a member of five National League pennant-winning teams, and played as the catcher for five pitchers who were eventually inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Mancuso was regarded as one of the top defensive catchers of the 1930s.
Mancuso was born in Galveston, Texas to the son of a Sicilian immigrant and the daughter of German immigrants. His father died in his forties and his mother continued to support the family by working as a midwife. Mancuso first began to play baseball as a nine-year-old. After graduating from high school, he went to work as a teller at a bank although, he was hired more for his talent as a baseball player than as a teller, playing as a member of the bank's baseball team. He eventually caught the attention of the President of the Houston Buffaloes of the Texas League, and began his professional baseball career with them in 1925. In 1927, he hit for a .372 batting average for the Syracuse Stars in the International League. He made his Major League debut with the St. Louis Cardinals at the age of 22 on April 30, 1928, and stayed with them until July, when he was sent to the Minneapolis Millers in the American Association. He spent 1929 with St. Louis's American Association farm club, the Rochester Red Wings and with Houston.
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Hank Luisetti
Angelo "Hank" Luisetti (June 16, 1916 - December 17, 2002) was an American college men's basketball player and one of the great innovators of the game. In an era that featured the traditional two-handed set shot, Luisetti developed the running one-handed shot. Equipped with such an offensive weapon, Luisetti became one of the most dominant players in American college basketball history.
A graduate of Galileo High School in his native city, San Francisco, he went on to play for Stanford. He became the first player to score 50 points in a game on January 1, 1938, against Duquesne. Luisetti was named the second-best player of the mid-century (behind George Mikan) by an Associated Press poll of sportswriters and broadcasters in 1950.
Luisetti’s influence was aided by a celebrated game between Long Island University and Luisetti’s Stanford Indians. Long Island, at the time of the game, had a 43 game winning streak. The game was played in the evening of Dec. 30, 1936, in Madison Square Garden and a crowd of 17,623 was on hand to see Long Island, the nation's No. 1 team, play Stanford.
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Hank Marino
Enrico "Hank" Marino was one of the world's top bowling champions of the 1930s, with a career lasted half a century.
Marino came to Chicago when he was 11 years old and gained prominence on the bowling circuit there before moving to Milwaukee in 1930.Marino originally moved to Milwaukee to open a bowling alley, but joined the Heil Products Team and soon became a global star on the bowling circuit[citation needed]. Between 1934 and 1938, Marino reigned as singles bowling champion, and in 1936, took the All Events Title at the International Bowling Tournament in Berlin, Germany.
Marino was the only bowler of prominence to spin the ball while it was hanging on his thumb[citation needed]. He was selected as the American Bowling Congress Bowler of the Year in 1941, Bowler of the Half Century in 1951, and was later named to Bowling Magazine’s Pre-1950 All-American team.
Marino captured 14 titles, had a high series of 833, rolled five 800 series and bowled 11,300 games during the course of his 50-year career[citation needed]. In 1971, he received the Flowers for the Living award and was inducted into the Wisconsin Bowling Hall of Fame in 1992.
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Harry Caray
Harry Caray, born Harry Christopher Carabina (March 1, 1914 – February 18, 1998), was an American baseball broadcaster on radio and television. He covered four Major League Baseball teams, beginning with a long tenure calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals, then the Oakland Athletics (for one year) and the Chicago White Sox (for eleven years), before ending his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.
Caray was born Harry Christopher Carabina of Italian and Romanian parentage in one of the poorest sections of St. Louis. He was an infant when his father died. His Romanian mother, Daisy Argint, remarried, but after her death when Caray was just eight, he went to live with his aunt Doxie at 1909 LaSalle Street in a tough, working-class section of St. Louis. As a young man, Caray played baseball at the semi-pro level for a short time before auditioning for a radio job at the age of 19. He then spent a few years learning the trade at radio stations in Joliet, Illinois, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Caray did play-by-play for the St. Louis Hawks professional basketball team (now the Atlanta Hawks) and the University of Missouri football team, and he announced three Cotton Bowl games.
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Harry Jeffra
Harry Jeffra' (born Ignacius Pasquale Guiffi on November 30, 1914) was an American boxer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was a former world bantamweight and NYSAC featherweight boxing champion. Jeffra's career spanned from 1933 to 1950, and his final record showed 93 wins (27 KOs) 20 losses and 7 draws.
Jeffra captured the bantamweight title by outpointing Puerto Rican great Sixto Escobar on September 23, 1937. Escobar, however, regained the title by outpointing Jeffra on February 20, 1938. The two met again with no title on the line. In what would be Escobar's last fight, Jeffra was awarded a 10 round decision.
Jeffra then moved up in weight to featherweight, where he fought several bouts against Joey Archibald. On September 28, 1939, Archibald successfully defended his world featherweight title against Jeffra when he was awarded a very controversial split decsiion after 15 rounds. Most writers scored the fight for Jeffra.
On May 20, 1940, Jeffra outpointed Archibald to win the NYSAC version of the world featherweight crown, but lost the title back to Archibald on May 12, 1941.Harry defeated such men as Lou Salica, Joey Archibald, "Pittsburgh" Jackie Wilson, Sixto Escobar, Phil Terranova, Ruby Bradley, Tommy Forte, Joey Iannotti, Mike Raffa, Indian Quintana, Nicky Jerome and Bill Speary. Harry was inducted into the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1982. Jeffra died in September 1988.
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Henry Ellard
Henry Austin Ellard (born July 21, 1961) is a former American football wide receiver who played for the Los Angeles Rams (1983–1993), Washington Redskins (1994–1998), and the New England Patriots (1998). Ellard qualified for Olympic trials in 1992 with his 54.1 foot triple jump.
Ellard attended Hoover High School in Fresno, California. He won the CIF California State Championships in the Triple Jump in 1979 For college, Ellard went across town to Fresno State University from 1979-82 where he set an NCAA record with 1,510 receiving yards in his final season. Ellard still holds the Fresno State record for touchdown catches, (25), and is third in receiving yards (2,947) and fourth in receptions (138).
Ellard was drafted in the second round (32nd overall) of the 1983 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams. In the NFL, Ellard was known for using his height and jumping ability to get to high passes, his leadership, and his superior skills as a route runner. Respected commentators like Deion Sanders, and John Madden have stated he is one of the best ever. In his eleven seasons with Los Angeles he went to three Pro Bowls. At the time of his retirement, Ellard held the Rams' team records for career receptions (593), receiving yards (9,761), 100-yard games (26), punt return average (11.3), and total offense (11,663).
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Henry Schulte
Henry Frank Schulte (February 4, 1879 – October 18, 1944) was an American football player and coach and also a college track and field coach. Schulte played football at the University of Michigan from 1903–1905 and later coached football and track and field at Eastern Michigan University (1906–1908), University of Missouri (1914–1917), and University of Nebraska (1919–1938). Schulte was often referred to by the nickname "Indian" Schulte, though he was of German rather than Native American descent.
Schulte was born in 1879 in St. Louis County, Missouri. His father, Gerhardt Henry Schulte (1846-1917), was a teamster who emigrated to the United States from Germany. His mother, Amalia, also emigrated from Germany.
Schulte played football at Smith Academy in St. Louis and then at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1903, Schulte transferred to the University of Michigan where he played at the guard and center positions for Fielding H. Yost's famous "Point-a-Minute" teams of 1903, 1904, and 1905, which compiled a record of 33–1–1 over the three years Schulte was a starter. In late 1905 and early 1906, charges of professionalism were leveled at the major college football programs, including Michigan, leading to calls for reform or even elimination of the sport from college campuses. In response to the controversy, the faculty at Michigan ruled Schulte and two other football players, Germany Schulz and Walter Rheinschild, academically ineligible. As a result, Schulte missed the 1906 season.
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Isaac Bruce
Isaac Isidore Bruce (born November 10, 1972) is a retired American football wide receiver. He was originally drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the second round of the 1994 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Memphis.
An All-Pro and four-time Pro Bowl selection, Bruce has amassed 15,208 receiving yards in his career (third all-time). He played the first 14 years with the Rams and won a Super Bowl ring with the team in Super Bowl XXXIV.
Bruce was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He attended Dillard High in Fort Lauderdale. As a senior, he caught 39 passes for 644 yards (16.5 yards per rec. avg.), was an All-County selection, and led his team to the 1989 Florida State 4-A Championship.
Bruce went to West Los Angeles College, then to Santa Monica College before transferring to the University of Memphis in 1992, where he finished his college football career with 113 receptions for 1,586 yards (14.0 yards per rec. avg.) and 15 touchdowns. He earned a degree in physical education.
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Jack Jacobs
"Indian" Jack Jacobs (August 7, 1919 – January 12, 1974) was an American and Canadian football player in the National Football League and Western Interprovincial Football Union. He was a charter member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963.
Jacobs was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, and played high school football at Muskogee High School. He was popularly known as "Indian Jack" because he was a Creek man, at a time when the use of such terminology was not seen as offensive.
Jacobs played college football at the University of Oklahoma. Considered a phenomenal all-round player and starting quarterback, Jack averaged 47.84 yards per kick in 1940 (which remains an OU record) with a career average of 42.10. He holds the record for passing percentage in a game completing 8 out of 8 passes (1.000)(OU v. Kansas 1941). Jacobs accumulated the most offense yardage in 1940/1941 (junior & senior years). As a defensive back, Jacobs is tied with seven other players for the record number of interceptions in a game (3)(1941 OU v. Marquette).
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Jack Kemp
Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st congressional district from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.
Before entering politics, Kemp was a professional quarterback for 13 years. He played briefly in the National Football League (NFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL), but became a star in the American Football League (AFL). He served as captain of both the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills and earned the AFL Most Valuable Player award in 1965 after leading the Bills to a second consecutive championship. He played in the AFL for all 10 years of its existence, appeared in its All-Star game seven times, played in its championship game five times, and set many of the league's career passing records. Kemp also co-founded the AFL Players Association, for which he served five terms as president. During the early part of his football career, he served in the United States Army Reserve.
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Jack Youngblood
Herbert Jackson Youngblood, III (born January 26, 1950) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a five-time consensus All-Pro and a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Before playing professionally, Youngblood played college football for the University of Florida, and was recognized as an All-American. He is considered among the best players Florida ever produced—a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and one of only five Florida Gators to be named to the Gator Football Ring of Honor.
After retiring as a player in 1985, Youngblood worked in the Rams' front office until 1991. He also worked in the front office of the Sacramento Surge of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1992 to 1993, and the administration of the CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners from 1993 to 1994. He was a vice-president, then president, of the Orlando Predators from 1995 until 1999. From 1999 through 2002, he served as the NFL's liaison for the Arena Football League.
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Jackie Slater
Jackie Ray Slater (born May 27, 1954, in Jackson, Mississippi) is a retired NFL offensive tackle who played his entire 20-year career with the Rams organization, playing 19 seasons for the Rams in Los Angeles (1976–1994) and one season for the Rams in St. Louis in 1995.
Slater attended Jackson State University same as Walter Payton, Vernon Perry and Actress De De Tillman. Slater was a letterman in football and was selected to the Southwestern Athletic Conference All-Star Game three times, and as a senior, he was a First-team All–Black America selection, and was named an All-American selection by the Pittsburgh Courier. After his senior season, he was invited to participate in the College All-Star Game.
Slater played in 259 games from 1976 to 1995, a then-record for offensive lineman (broken by Bruce Matthews in the 1999 season). He was the first player to play 20 seasons for one team, and former Washington Redskins cornerback Darrell Green is the only other one to accomplish the feat. Much like Ed "Too Tall" Jones was with the Dallas Cowboys, Slater was unique in "bridging gaps" with different eras in the franchise. Slater was teammates with Merlin Olsen and Jack Youngblood earlier in his career and Jerome Bettis and Isaac Bruce at the end of his career, although Bettis would be traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers (where he had more success) right after Slater retired.
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Jake LaMotta
Giacobbe "Jake" LaMotta (born July 10, 1921), nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull," is an American retired professional boxer and former World Middleweight Champion. He was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1980 film Raging Bull.
LaMotta is an Italian-American born in New York City in the borough of the Bronx. He was forced by his father into fighting other children to entertain neighborhood adults, who threw pocket change into the ring. LaMotta's father collected the money and used it to help pay the rent. His cousin was the inventor Richard LaMotta.
In 1941, at the age of 19, LaMotta turned professional. During World War II, he was rejected for military service because of a mastoid operation on one of his ears.
LaMotta went 14-0-1 (3 KOs) as a middleweight in his first fifteen bouts before losing a highly controversial split decision to Jimmy Reeves in Reeves' hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Chaos erupted after the decision was announced. Fights broke out around the ring and the crowd continued to boo for 20 minutes. The arena's organist tried to calm down the crowd by playing the Star Spangled Banner.
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Jammal Lord
Jammal Alberto Lord (born January 10, 1981 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American football safety. He was selected with the tenth pick of the sixth round of the 2004 NFL Draft out of the University of Nebraska by the Houston Texans. He played WR/CB for the Indoor Football League's Abilene Ruff Riders In 2007.
Lord was born in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn and moved to Bayonne, New Jersey after his father was killed in Panama. He learned option-style football as a nine-year-old quarterback on the local Pop Warner team. He went on to high school where he was a first team all state quarterback along with Chris Simms. Lord played high school football at Bayonne High School, where he was also a three-year starter on the basketball team.[citation needed].
Lord played quarterback at Nebraska and ran the Huskers' option-style offense of the era. Jammal's remarkable athleticism allowed him to excel as a double-threat quarterback, although his passing ability was criticized. As a starting quarterback, Lord directed his Nebraska teams to 7-7 and 10-3 records during the 2002 and 2003 seasons respectively. At 6-foot-2, 220 pounds with a 4.5 in the 40 yd. dash, Lord was bullish rushing and passing for 2,774 yards in 2002 and for 2,253 yards in 2003.
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Jason Maas
Jason Maas (born November 19, 1975 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) is a former Canadian football quarterback and current quarterbacks coach for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He is best known for his career in the CFL, which was largely spent with the Edmonton Eskimos. He has also spent time with the Montreal Alouettes and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
During his high school career in Yuma, Arizona, Maas gained his first notice as a football player when the Phoenix Prep Sport magazine selected Maas as the most outstanding high-school quarterback in the state of Arizona as a senior.
Maas went to college at the University of Oregon starting in 1994 but was buried deep on the depth chart for the first two years of his career. In his second year, Maas threw only eighteen passes in unimportant situations. However, in his third year, Maas was considered a solid bet to take Oregon's starting job, until the arrival of high-profile transfer Akili Smith. Smith was drawing rave reviews from the football establishment as a better pure athlete, but Maas's numbers early in the year were comparable. Maas drew rave reviews by throwing for five touchdowns in a game against Stanford, but it was Smith who ended up taking the long-term starting job.
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Jeff Kemp
Jeffrey Allan Kemp (born July 11, 1959) is a former professional American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at Dartmouth College. In 1984, Kemp led the Rams with 13 touchdowns passes and a trip to the playoffs. In 1986 as a back-up to the injured Joe Montana, he threw 11 touchdowns for the 49ers.
Kemp is the son of late former NFL quarterback and American politician Jack Kemp and brother of former Canadian Football League quarterback Jimmy Kemp. Kemp and his wife Stacy have 4 sons: Kyle, Kory, Kolby and Keegan.
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Jeff Rutledge
Jeffrey Ronald Rutledge (born January 22, 1957) is an American football coach and former professional quarterback. He is currently the head football coach at Pope John Paul II High School in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Rutledge was born and reared in Birmingham, Alabama. He was part of a team that earned back-to-back state titles at L. Frazier Banks High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
Rutledge played collegiately at Alabama, where he was a member of three SEC Championship teams under Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. He was the starting quarterback on the 1978 National Championship team.
Drafted in the ninth round of the 1979 NFL Draft (246th overall pick) by the Los Angeles Rams, Rutledge played in 14 NFL seasons from 1979 to 1992 for three different teams. He was a backup in Super Bowl XIV as a member of the Los Angeles Rams, he played in Super Bowl XXI as a member of the New York Giants, and was a backup in Super Bowl XXVI as a member of the Washington Redskins.
Rutledge spent most of his career as a back-up QB and a holder on kicks. His finest moment as a professional player came when as a member of the Redskins he came off the bench in a game versus the Detroit Lions in 1990. Trailing 35-14 with 10:37 left in the third quarter Rutledge replaced an ineffective Stan Humphries and led a great comeback. He completied 30 of 42 passes for 363 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 12 yards for the game tying touchdown with only 24 seconds remaining. In overtime, he hit Art Monk with a vital 40 yard pass on third and 15 to help set up Chip Lohmiller's game winning field goal.
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Jerome Bettis
Jerome Abram "The Bus" Bettis (born February 16, 1972) is a retired American football halfback who played for the NFL's Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. Bettis is considered one of the best big backs ever because of his footwork and power, and is currently sixth on the National Football League's all-time rushing list. He retired in 2006 after a Super Bowl victory at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, his city of birth.
Bettis was born February 16, 1972, in Detroit, Michigan. He is the youngest of three children of Gladys Elizabeth (née Bougard) and Johnnie E. Bettis. Bettis did not start playing football until high school, as his primary passion as a youth had been bowling. He attended Mackenzie High School in Detroit, where he was a standout running back and linebacker. As a senior, he was rated the top player in the state by the Detroit Free Press, and was the Gatorade Circle of Champions Player of the Year award winner.[citation needed]
At the University of Notre Dame, Bettis finished his career with 337 rushing attempts for 1912 yards (5.7 yards per rushing attempt avg.), and made 32 receptions for 429 yards (13.4 yards per reception). In his last game as a junior, a 28-3 win by Notre Dame over Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl, he rushed 20 times for 75 yards.
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Jerry Colangelo
Jerry Colangelo (born November 20, 1939), is an American businessman and sports executive.
He formerly owned the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He was also instrumental in the relocation of the Winnipeg Jets of the NHL to Phoenix to become the Phoenix Coyotes.
In the summer of 2005, Colangelo was named director of USA Basketball whose team represented the United States in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 FIBA World Championship. Colangelo also serves as Chairman of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), a nonprofit nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes Italian American culture and heritage.
Colangelo has been known for a no-nonsense ownership style. Players like the Suns' Dennis Johnson and Jason Kidd and the Diamondbacks' Bobby Chouinard have been traded or released after their personal problems became public.
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Jerry LaNoue
Gerald "Jerry" LaNoue (1912-1983) was a three-year starting quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and earned All Big Six Conference recognition in 1935, while playing for coach Dana X. Bible.
A native of Wisner, Nebraska, LaNoue wore jersey #11 throughout his Cornhusker career, and was considered the fastest Cornhusker running back of his era, and several historians have made comparisons between him and Husker legend Johnny Rodgers because of his speed and deceptive moves on the field. In starring for Nebraska, LaNoue followed his cousin (and Wisner native), Lewis H. Brown (American football), who was a starting quarterback for the Cornhuskers, as well.
Despite LaNoue's presence, the Wisner High football team had a 5-15-1 record during his playing career. Not long after LaNoue's graduation, the school dropped football.
LaNoue lettered twice for the Cornhuskers--in 1933 and 1935. Due to a broken collarbone, he did not letter in 1934.
LaNoue is also linked to Nebraska football because it was through his connections that fellow Wisner native Warren Alfson became a Cornhusker football player. Alfson ultimately earned All-America recognition in 1940. Like Alfson, LaNoue delayed entering the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for several years, as he graduated from Wisner High in 1931, making him somewhat older than his teammates and opponents.
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Jerry Tagge
Jerry Lee Tagge (born April 12, 1950) is a former professional football player, a quarterback in the NFL, WFL, and CFL from 1972-79. He is best known as the quarterback of the Nebraska Cornhusker teams which won national championships in 1970 and 1971.
Jerry Tagge was born at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, the third child and second son of William Robert (Billy) Tagge and Lois Jurczyk Tagge.
As a teenager in the mid-1960s in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Tagge sold concessions at Lambeau Field, the home of the Green Bay Packers, then coached by Vince Lombardi. He graduated from Green Bay West High School in 1968.
Tagge played college football at Nebraska under head coach Bob Devaney. In his sophomore year in 1969, Tagge rose to second-string quarterback. His playing time increased until midway through his junior year when he took over the starting position from Van Brownson, leading the team to a 10-0-1 season and a matchup with LSU in the 1971 Orange Bowl. Tagge scored the game-winning touchdown in a 17-12 victory over the Tigers on a quarterback sneak, earning himself Most Valuable Player honors, and the Huskers the AP national championship for 1970. Both #1 Texas and #2 Ohio State lost their bowl games on New Year's Day. (Through the 1973 season, the final UPI coaches' poll was released in December, before the bowls.)
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Jim Covert
James Paul "Jimbo" Covert (born March 22, 1960) is a former American college and professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons during the 1980s and early 1990s. Covert played college football for the University of Pittsburgh, and was recognized as an All-American. He was selected in the first round of the 1983 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the NFL's Chicago Bears. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of The Institute for Transfusion Medicine.
Covert was born in Conway, Pennsylvania. He excelled in both football and wrestling at Freedom Area High School in Beaver County, west of Pittsburgh. In football, Covert led the 1977 Freedom Bulldogs, with an undefeated 11-0 record, to the Midwestern Athletic Conference (MAC) Championship. The Bulldogs eventually lost to Laurel High School in the second round of the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) playoffs. Covert earned UPI First-Team All-State honors his senior year and became a highly recruited player.
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Jim Everett
James Samuel Everett III (born January 3, 1963 in Emporia, Kansas) is a retired professional American football quarterback who played for twelve seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
Everett attended Purdue University and was selected in the first round of the 1986 NFL Draft. He was selected as the third pick in the first round by the Houston Oilers, and was the first quarterback taken that year. Unable to work out a contract agreement with Everett, the Oilers traded his rights to the Los Angeles Rams, with whom Everett played from 1986 to 1993. He then played with the New Orleans Saints from 1994 to 1996 and ended his career with a stint with the San Diego Chargers in 1997.
Everett was recruited out of Eldorado High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico to play either safety or quarterback for Purdue University. He was soon slotted into the quarterback role where he narrowly missed out on being a four-year starter at Purdue, as a game day decision before his first game as a freshman led to Scott Campbell getting the nod over Everett. Campbell held off Everett for three years, one of which Everett was able to redshirt to gain an extra year of eligibility. Upon Campbell's graduation to a seven-year career in the NFL, Everett took over the reins of the pass-oriented Boilermaker offense.
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Jim Fregosi
James Louis Fregosi (born April 4, 1942) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and manager. During an 18-year baseball career, he played from 1961–1978 for four different teams, primarily the Los Angeles and California Angels. In that franchise's first eleven years of play, he became its first star as the team's most productive and popular player. He led the American League (AL) in double plays twice, winning the 1967 Gold Glove Award, and upon leaving the team ranked ninth in AL history with 818 double plays. He holds the franchise record with 70 career triples; several of his other team records, including career games (1,429), hits (1,408), doubles (219), runs (691) and runs batted in (546), were broken by Brian Downing between 1986 and 1989. He returned to the team as manager, guiding it to its first-ever postseason appearance in 1979, and later managed the Philadelphia Phillies to the 1993 National League pennant.
He is currently the top advance scout for the Atlanta Braves.
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Jim Hardy
James Fred Hardy (born April 24, 1923 in Los Angeles, California) is a retired American football quarterback.
Hardy attended and played high school football at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles.
Hardy played college football at the University of Southern California.
Hardy was drafted in the first round (eighth overall) of the 1945 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins. He played in the National Football League between 1946 and 1952. He made the Pro Bowl in 1950. Hardy is perhaps most famous for throwing an NFL-record eight interceptions in a single game, in a 45-7 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on September 24, 1950.
He later served as the general manager of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
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Jim Kelly
James Edward Kelly (born February 14, 1960) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills and the USFL's Houston Gamblers.
Kelly was the third quarterback drafted in the 1983 NFL Draft, the same draft class where John Elway was first overall. Employing the K-Gun offense, known for its hurry up shotgun formations, Kelly lead one of the great NFL scoring juggernauts in the Buffalo Bills. Kelly led the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls, from 1991 to 1994, but lost all four. In 2002, in his first year of eligibility, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Jim Kelly's number 12 is the only number ever retired in Buffalo Bills history. In 2009, Kelly was elected to the Buffalo Bills 50th Season All-time Team.
Kelly grew up in the small town of East Brady, Pennsylvania, about 55 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. He was a standout at East Brady High School, where during his high school career he won all-state honors after passing for 3,915 yards and 44 touchdowns. After his senior year, Kelly played in the Big 33 Football Classic.
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Jim Valvano
James Thomas Anthony "Jim" Valvano (March 10, 1946 – April 28, 1993), nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball coach.
While the head basketball coach at North Carolina State University, he won the 1983 NCAA Basketball Tournament against long odds. Valvano is not only remembered for running up and down the court after winning the 1983 NCAA championship, seemingly in disbelief and looking for someone to hug, but also for his inspirational 1993 ESPY Awards speech, given just eight weeks before he died of cancer.
Valvano was the middle child of Rocco and Angelina Valvano, and was born in Corona, Queens, New York. Valvano attended Seaford High School in Seaford, New York. He was married to his high school sweetheart, Pamela Levine. They had three daughters: Nicole, Jamie, and Lee Ann.
Vince Lombardi was Valvano's role model. Valvano told an ESPY audience, on March 3, 1993, that he took some of Lombardi's inspirational speeches out of his book Commitment to Excellence and used them with his team. Valvano discussed how he planned to use Lombardi's speech to the Green Bay Packers in front of his Rutgers freshman basketball team prior to his first game as a coach.
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Jim Youngblood
Jimmy Lee Youngblood (born February 23, 1950 in Union, South Carolina) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins. He played college football at Tennessee Tech and was drafted in the second round of the 1973 NFL Draft.
Youngblood attended Jonesville High School in Jonesville, South Carolina, where he was all-conference in football, basketball, and baseball.
Youngblood attended Tennessee Tech from 1969–72 and set a school record with 476 tackles. The Ohio Valley Conference named him Defensive Player of the Year in 1971 and 1972. He made All-America teams at the college-division level in 1971 and was a First-team All-American in 1972.
His father was a standout semi-pro baseball player, and his mother was a star basketball player in high school in Jonesville. Contrary to common belief he is not related to former teammate and NFL Hall of Fame member Jack Youngblood.
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Joe Barnes
Joe Barnes (born December 18, 1951 in Fort Worth, Texas) was an all-star quarterback in the Canadian Football League.
Barnes was a graduate of Texas Tech University, playing from 1971 to 1973, and was inducted into the Texas Tech Athletic Hall of Honor in 1986. His senior year, he dated Dianna Delp. They were married in June 1974. Barnes was drafted by the Chicago Bears of the NFL in 1974 in the 13th round (316th overall.) He would play only 2 games for Chicago in 1974, completing 2 of 9 passes, and punting once for 27 yards.
He moved to Canada in 1976, and began a 5-year stretch with the Montreal Alouettes. He began by sharing QB duties with Sonny Wade, but mostly took over in 1978, when he threw for 1177 yards, and in 1979, when he added 2456 yards. He won a Grey Cup in 1977 and was QB for the 1978 and 1979 Cup losses to the Edmonton Eskimos. He lost his starting QB job in 1980 to Gerry Dattilio after six games, and was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Again, he shared QB duties for the Green Riders with John Hufnagel, and after the 1981 season headed to Toronto.
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Joe Bellino
Joseph Michael Bellino (born March 13, 1938) is a former American football halfback in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1960.
Bellino was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, attended the town's public schools, and was a three-sport star at Winchester High School. In baseball he batted well over .400 and was courted by major league teams. The basketball team on which he starred won the state championship his sophomore and junior years. They moved up to the Class A (largest schools) tournament his senior year, where the team's 55 game winning streak came to an end at the hands of much larger B.M.C. Durfee High School of Fall River. He was a dominant halfback on Winchester's outstanding football team, although his senior season was shortened by the 1955 polio epidemic.
During his 1956-57 year at Columbian Academy in Washington D.C., Bellino starred in both football and basketball. On November 25, Bellino scored three touchdowns in Columbian's upset win over the Navy Plebes, 34-33. In the fall of 1957, Bellino entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland along with his former high-school teammate, Frank Dattilo. During his freshman year, the Plebes matched up against the Penn State freshmen and their star player Lew Luce. Penn State won the game 23-13 but Bellino took a lateral from his Columbian teammate Harry Dietz, and scored on an 85 yard kickoff return.
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Joe DiMaggio
Giuseppe Paulo "Joe" DiMaggio (/dɨˈmɑːʒioʊ/ or /dɨˈmædʒioʊ/; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands. DiMaggio was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.
A three-time MVP winner and 13-time All-Star, DiMaggio is the only player to be selected for the All-Star Game in every season he played. During his thirteen years with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships.
At the time of his retirement, he ranked fifth in career home runs (361) and sixth in career slugging percentage (.579). He was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken in the baseball centennial year of 1969.
His brothers Vince and Dom also became major league center fielders.
DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California, the eighth of nine children born to immigrants from Italy, Giuseppe (1872–1949) and Rosalia (Mercurio) DiMaggio (1878–1951). He was delivered by a midwife identified on his birth certificate as Mrs. J. Pico. He was named after his father; "Paolo" was in honor of Giuseppe's favorite saint, Saint Paul. The family moved to San Francisco, California, when Joe was a year old.
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Joe Dufek
Joseph Edward Dufek (born August 23, 1961) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 1983. He played college football at Yale.
Dufek also played for the San Diego Chargers.
He is a younger brother of Don Dufek, Jr., who was a captain of the Seattle Seahawks, Bill Dufek who was an All-American at Michigan and a son of Don Dufek, Sr., who was the most valuable player in the 1951 Rose Bowl. He is the father of Mike, an All-Big Ten Conference athlete, who played his senior season for Michigan Wolverines baseball in 2010.
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Joe Ferguson
Joseph Carlton Ferguson, Jr. (born April 23, 1950 in Alvin, Texas) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL.
He played high school football in Shreveport, Louisiana for Woodlawn High School, guiding the Knights to the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Class AAA (the top classification at the time) state championship in 1968. Ferguson succeeded Terry Bradshaw as Woodlawn's starting quarterback.
Ferguson played college football at the University of Arkansas, where he still holds the school's single game record for most completions (31 against Texas A&M in 1971) and in that same season was named the Southwest Conference's Offensive Player of the Year.
The Buffalo Bills selected Ferguson in the third round of the 1973 NFL Draft. Although he is most famous for playing with the Bills from 1973 to 1984, Ferguson also played three seasons for the Detroit Lions and two seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and one final season with the Indianapolis Colts.
Ferguson placed in the top 10 in pass attempts five times, completions and passing yards four times, passing touchdowns six times, and yards per pass three times. At one time he shared, with Ron Jaworski, the NFL record for consecutive starts by a quarterback with 107, until he was replaced by Joe Dufek on September 30, 1984. He has a 1-3 record in the NFL postseason, winning against the New York Jets in 1981. His three losses came from the Cincinnati Bengals in those same playoffs, the San Diego Chargers the year before in 1980, playing the entire game against the Chargers with a sprained ankle, and in 1974 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He retired after the 1990 season after playing only one game with the Colts.
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Joe Montana
Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr. (born June 11, 1956), nicknamed Joe Cool, Golden Joe, The Golden Great and Comeback Joe, is a retired professional football player, a hall of fame quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. Montana started his NFL career in 1979 with San Francisco, where he played for the next 14 seasons. Traded before the 1993 season, he spent his final two years in the league with Kansas City. While a member of the 49ers, Montana started in four Super Bowl games and won all of them. Montana was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000, his first year of eligibility.
In 1989, and again in 1990, the Associated Press named Montana the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP), and Sports Illustrated magazine named Montana the 1990 "Sportsman of the Year". Four years earlier, in 1986, Montana won the AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award. Montana was elected to eight Pro Bowls, as well as being voted 1st team All-Pro by the AP in 1987, 1989, and 1990. Montana had the highest passer rating in the National Football Conference (NFC) five times (1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1989); and, in both 1987 and 1989, Montana had the highest passer rating in the entire NFL.
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Joe Namath
Joseph William "Joe" Namath (/ˈneɪmɨθ/; born May 31, 1943), nicknamed "Broadway Joe" or "Joe Willie", is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for the University of Alabama under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and his assistant, Howard Schnellenberger, from 1962–1964, and professional football in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. Namath was an American Football League icon and played for that league's New York Jets for most of his professional career but finished his career with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985.
Namath retired after playing in 143 career games (including play off games) with 68 wins, 71 losses and 4 ties, in his 132 career starts he was 64-64-4, and he was 4-7 coming off the bench in relief. In his career he threw 173 touchdowns, 220 interceptions, and completed 1,886 passes for 27,663 yards. During his thirteen years in the AFL and NFL he played for three division champions (the 1968 and 1969 AFL East Champion Jets and the 1977 NFC West Champion Rams), earned one league championship (1968 AFL Championship), and one Super Bowl victory (Super Bowl III).
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Joe Paterno
Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno (pronounced /pəˈtɜrnoʊ/; December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012), often referred to as "JoePa", was an American college football coach who was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions for nearly 46 years, from 1966 through 2011. At the time of his death he held the record for the most victories by an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football coach with 409 and was the only FBS coach to reach 400 victories. He coached five undefeated teams that won major bowl games and, in 2007, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach. Despite his achievements as a coach, Paterno's career ended abruptly in 2011 after he was fired for his "failure of leadership" in the child sex abuse scandal surrounding his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
Paterno was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Brown University, where he played football both as the quarterback and a cornerback. Originally planning to be a lawyer, he instead signed on as an assistant football coach at Penn State in 1950, persuaded by his college coach Rip Engle who had taken over as Penn State's head coach. Sixteen years later, in 1966, Paterno was named as Engle's successor. Before long, he had coached the team to two undefeated regular seasons in 1968 and 1969. He went on to win two national championships—in 1982 and again in 1986. In all, he led the Nittany Lions to 37 bowl appearances with 24 wins all while turning down offers to coach NFL teams, including the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots. Paterno became the winningest coach in Division I history on October 29, 2011.
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Joe Torre
Joseph Paul Torre (
/ˈtɔri/; born July 18, 1940) is an American former professional baseball player and manager. A nine-time All-Star, he played in Major League Baseball as a catcher, first baseman and a third baseman for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, and the St. Louis Cardinals. After his retirement as a player, he later managed all three teams.
Torre managed the New York Yankees from 1996 to 2007. The Yankees reached the post season each year and won ten American League East Division titles, six American League pennants, four World Series titles, and compiled a .605 winning percentage overall. With 2,326 wins, he is currently ranked 5th on the list of Major League Baseball all-time managerial wins.
Torre followed in his brother Frank's footsteps when he was signed by the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1960. In his first season in the minor leagues with the Class A Eau Claire Braves, he won the 1960 Northern League batting championship with a .344 batting average. Torre made his major league debut late in the season on September 21, 1960. He was assigned to the Triple A Louisville Colonels for the 1961 season where, the Braves had planned to groom him as the eventual successor to their All-Star catcher, Del Crandall. However, those plans were changed when Crandall injured his throwing arm in May 1961, forcing the Braves to promote Torre to the major leagues with just over a year of minor league experience. Torre rose to the occasion, hitting for a .278 batting average with 21 doubles and 10 home runs. He finished the season ranked second to Billy Williams in the 1961 National League Rookie of the Year voting.
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Joey Amalfitano
John Joseph Amalfitano (born January 23, 1934 in San Pedro, California) is a former utility infielder, manager and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played a combined ten seasons with the New York/San Francisco Giants (1954–1955, 1960–1961, 1963), Houston Colt .45s (1962) and Chicago Cubs (1964–1967). He managed the Cubs from 1979 to 1981. He is best known as the Los Angeles Dodgers' third-base coach for sixteen years from 1983 to 1998, which included a World Series championship. He is currently a special assistant for player development for the San Francisco Giants, primarily working in its farm system.
Amalfitano attended Loyola University of Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. Because he signed a "bonus contract" when he became a professional player in 1954, Amalfitano spent the first two years of his pro career sitting on the bench of the New York Giants under the terms of the rule then in force. But after four years in the minor leagues, he returned to the National League in 1960 and played through the middle of 1967 for the Giants, Houston Colt .45s and Chicago Cubs. Amalfitano, a right-handed hitter and thrower, batted .244 in 1,715 at bats with nine home runs.
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Joey Giardello
Carmine Orlando Tilelli (July 16, 1930 – September 4, 2008) was an American boxer who was the middleweight champion of the world from 1963 to 1965, and was better known by his professional pseudonym of Joey Giardello.
Giardello was born in Brooklyn, but lived most of his life in the East Passyunk Crossing area of South Philadelphia, where, as a young man, he joined many other Italian-Americans in the city in taking up boxing. He turned professional in 1948, not long after his 18th birthday. It was said that Giardello changed his name from Tilelli in an attempt to join the US Army under the legal age using his cousin's name. He then served, underage, in an Airborne unit for the short remainder of World War II. He built up a neat resume whilst serving, though suffered an initial setback: "He had a scuffle at a gas station which cost him his $100,000 Prize Fight money and five months in jail" during his early career.
As a pro, he quickly racked up an 18-0-1 record in his first 19 fights while facing less-than-stellar opposition. He fought just three men who had previously won a fight during that time. It caught up with Tilelli on January 16, 1950, when he was handed his first defeat by Joe DiMartino, a journeyman with a 6-10 record.
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Joey Maxim
Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli (March 28, 1922 – June 2, 2001) was an American boxer. He was a light heavyweight champion of the world. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of left jabs.
Maxim was born in Cleveland, Ohio, he learned to box at a very young age. Following a successful amateur career, during which he won the Golden Gloves, he turned professional in 1940. He boxed fairly regularly at exhibitions during the war years whilst serving as a military police officer at Miami Beach, Florida.
It is somewhat surprising that Maxim had to wait so long for a world title shot, he was 28 and had already fought 87 times as a professional, considering his undoubted ability. His chance came on January 24, 1950, against British boxer Freddie Mills, who was making his first defense, at London's Earl's Court Exhibition Centre. Maxim, very much the underdog against the popular Englishman, won the fight by knockout in the 10th round. After the fight three of Mills's teeth were found embedded in Maxim's left glove, Mills never fought again.
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John Beradino
John Beradino (May 1, 1917 – May 19, 1996) was an American infielder in Major League Baseball and an actor. Known as Johnny Berardino during his baseball career, he was also credited during his acting career as John Baradino, John Barardino or John Barradino.
He was born Giovanni Berardino in Los Angeles, California. He attended Belmont High School, located in Downtown, Los Angeles.
Beradino is often mentioned as having appeared in the silent Our Gang comedies produced by Hal Roach as a child actor, but has not been identified as having appeared in any of the existing films.
After attending the University of Southern California where he played baseball under coach Sam Barry and was member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, Beradino was a major league player from 1939 to 1953 (except for three years of military service during World War II from 1942 to 1945). He played second base and shortstop for the St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians, and Pittsburgh Pirates, winning the World Series with the Indians in 1948. After injuring his leg and being released by Pittsburgh in 1952, he retired from baseball and returned to acting, having appeared in his first film in 1948.
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John Calipari
John Calipari (born February 10, 1959) is an American basketball coach. Since April 2009, he has been the men's head coach at the University of Kentucky.
Calipari is the former head coach of the University of Memphis Tigers, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen, and the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets. He is the only coach to direct three different colleges to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, although two of those appearances (1996 at UMass and 2008 at Memphis) have been officially vacated by the NCAA. Calipari is also one of only two coaches to direct three different schools to a Final Four (1996- UMass, 2008- Memphis, 2011, 2012- Kentucky), with the UMass and Memphis appearances later being vacated by the NCAA. As a result, he is the only head coach to have a Final Four appearance vacated at more than one school, although Calipari himself was not personally implicated by the NCAA in either case. As a college coach, Calipari has 18 20-win seasons (17 official), 8 30-win seasons (7 official), and has been named National Coach of the Year 3 times.
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John Faiman
John Faiman of Omaha, Nebraska is a former University of Nebraska Cornhusker quarterback. A two-time All-American quarterback at Omaha South High School, Faiman played quarterback for the Huskers from 1960 to 1962, starting the first game of 1962 which was also the first game for new head coach Bob Devaney. Faiman is head coach of the Bellevue West High School Thunderbirds in Bellevue, Nebraska.
John Faiman was a standout quarterback for Omaha South High School. He was selected as a Senior Scholastic Magazine All-American his junior year in 1958. As a senior in 1959 he was selected as a Teen Magazine All-American Midwest HC, guiding the Packers to a share in the state title; he also lead the Nebraska high school Shrine Bowl South team to a 7-6 victory over the North team at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.
Faiman began is college career in 1960 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during the tenure of head coach Bill Jennings. In his junior year in 1962 Faiman started as quarterback for head coach Bob Devany's first game and season home opener with a win 53-0 over the University of South Dakota. That same year as PAT kicker, he broke his right leg in practice in early November ending his Nebraska playing career. Faiman wore numbers 11, 21, 15 during the years 1960, 1961 and 1962 respectively.
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John Hadl
John Willard Hadl (born February 15, 1940) is a former collegiate and professional football player.
Hadl was born in Lawrence, Kansas. After playing halfback on both offense and defense at the University of Kansas as a sophomore, Hadl played quarterback for his last two years at Kansas, and was selected as the school's Player of the Century. He was an All American at running back in 1960 and at quarterback in 1961. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1994.
Hadl was the first KU player to be picked twice for All-America (1960 and 1961) honors for his skills as a quarterback and half back. Hadl also excelled as a defensive back, and punt returner and punter; he led the country with a 45.6-yard average in 1959. Hadl's No. 21 jersey is one of only three KU has retired. Hadl, who was picked for the all-conference team for three seasons, wound up with 1,281 yards passing and 1,016 yard rushing. Hadl still holds two KU records: Longest interception return, a 98-yard run against TCU; and longest punt, 94 yards vs. Oklahoma.
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John Mariucci
John Mariucci (May 8, 1916 - March 23, 1987) was an American ice hockey player, administrator and coach. Mariucci was born in Eveleth, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota where he played for both the hockey and football teams. He was named an All-American in hockey in 1940. Mariucci was inducted into the inaugural 1973 class of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame and was elected to the NHL Hall of Fame as a builder in 1985.
After starring for the Eveleth hockey and football teams, Mariucci would go onto college at the University of Minnesota where he would play both sports - leading his football squad to an undefeated AAU championship in 1940. Mariucci played for the Chicago Black Hawks for five seasons and would be the team captain in 1945-46 and 1947-48. Mariucci would be known primarily as a defensive-minded bruiser, finishing with only 11 goals and 34 assists in 223 games, but would total 308 penalty minutes. He would lose three seasons to the war (1942-43 through 1944-45), but would play two seasons for the United States Coast Guard in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League. Mariucci's best season with the Black Hawks would come in 1946-47 when he would play in 52 of the team's 60 games and finish with 9 goals and 11 assists and his 110 penalty minutes would be second in the league to Gus Mortson.
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John Panelli
John Rocco Panelli (May 7, 1926 – March 2, 2012) was an American football player. He played college football for the University of Notre Dame. He went on to play two seasons in the NFL for the Detroit Lions, and another three for the Chicago Cardinals.
Panelli died after a sudden illness on March 2, 2012. He was 85.
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Johnny Dundee
Johnny Dundee (November 19, 1893 – April 22, 1965) was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932. Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States.
Known as the Scotch Wop, Dundee faced all of the great fighters in the featherweight, lightweight and junior-lightweight divisions of his era. He fought the great Benny Leonard nine times, and Lew Tendler three times. He also boxed lightweight champions Freddie Welsh and Willie Ritchie.
Dundee was regarded as a skillful boxer with great footwork. He fought 330 bouts, third in ring history, and won the featherweight and junior lightweight world titles. Dundee was knocked out only twice in his career. His final record was 194 wins (22 KOs), 60 losses and 41 draws. The remaining bouts were No Decisions, which were common during the era in which he fought.
He received his first opportunity to win a world title in his 87th fight, in 1913. Although he fought the champion, Johnny Kilbane, to a draw, he would not receive another shot at a title until 1921. By this time he had fought an astounding 264 fights. He won the title when his opponent, George KO Chaney, was disqualified in the fifth round. Dundee thus became the first universally recognized world junior lightweight champion in ring history.
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Johnny Petraglia
Johnny Petraglia (b. March 3, 1947) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and now hails from Jackson, New Jersey. He is best known as a left-handed bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA), where he won 14 tour titles. He has also won eight Senior PBA Tour titles. He is a member of both the PBA and USBC Halls of Fame.
Petraglia joined the PBA in 1965, and won his first tour title at Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1966 when he was just 19 years old. A week later, Petraglia left the PBA Tour to join the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He served as an Army Spec 5 in Long Binh and Bien Hoa from 1967-68.
His best season as a pro came in 1971, when he won five titles in all. That year included consecutive wins in the last three tournaments of the season—culminated by a major championship in the Firestone Tournament of Champions. Petraglia would win two more majors: the 1977 BPAA U.S. Open and 1980 PBA National Championship, making him one of only six players to earn the PBA career "Triple Crown." (Billy Hardwick, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Chris Barnes are the others.) The 1980 event featured one of the more dramatic final matches in major tournament history, as Petraglia rolled four consecutive strikes in the 9th and 10th frames to secure the victory.
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Kay Stephenson
George Kay Stephenson (born December 17, 1944) is a former American college and professional football player and current coach, whose latter career has seen him work in four different professional leagues. Stephenson played quarterback for the American Football League's San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills. He finished his career in the World Football League playing for the Jacksonville Sharks in 1974 before entering the coaching ranks.
Stephenson was born in DeFuniak Springs, Florida in 1944, and grew up in nearby Pensacola. He attended Pensacola High School, and earned All-State accolades as a quarterback for the Pensacola Tigers high school football team. He received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Ray Graves' Florida Gators football team from 1964 to 1966. His arrival on the Florida campus coincided with that of another standout recruit, Steve Spurrier, who proceeded to become the starting quarterback in 1964, and won the Heisman Trophy in 1966. Stephenson remained a backup.
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Keith Null
Keith Null (born September 24, 1985 in Lampasas, Texas) is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at West Texas A&M.
Null has also been a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Null started in two seasons for West Texas A&M, throwing for over 9,000 yards in his two seasons as a starter. He was awarded All-Conference honors as a junior and senior. As a junior, Null threw for 4,134 yards with 41 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, including a 498-yard, six-touchdown outburst against Washburn. After settling in as a junior, Null exploded for one of the most prolific passing seasons at any collegiate level as a senior. He finished the season with 5,097 yards and 48 touchdowns with 15 interceptions. Null was also a star QB at the small town of Lampasas, Texas
Null was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the 6th round of the 2009 NFL Draft. In week 14, he made his first professional start, filling in for an injured Marc Bulger and Kyle Boller. In his first regular season start Keith completed 27 of 43 passes and threw for one touchdown and five interceptions in a 47-7 loss to the Tennessee Titans.
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Kellen Clemens
Kellen Clemens (born June 6, 1983) is an American football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New York Jets in the second round (49th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Oregon.
He has also been a member of the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans.
Clemens played high school football for the Burns Hilanders and led them to the Oregon state 3A championship game in 1999. In his high school career he threw for a state-record 8,646 yards (610-of-1,112) and 102 TD. He also received USA Today All-American honors and Oregon Gatorade Player of the Year while in high school, where he completed 218 of 395 passes for 3,464 yards (3,167 m) and 37 TD with 325 rushing yards and 15 TD in his senior season. He was coached by Terry Graham using the run and shoot offense.
Clemens played college football at the University of Oregon. He assumed the role of starting QB in all 13 games in 2003 and responded by throwing for more TD passes and yards than any sophomore in school history, surpassing Dan Fouts--who had 16 TDs and 2390 yards, in 1970. He posted three rushing TD, three passing TD and a career-best 437 passing yards in a road victory over Washington State as a junior. As a senior during the 2005 season he broke his ankle while playing against Arizona. Despite missing remaining three games of the season, he finished 2005 with 2,406 passing yards, 19 TDs, 4 interceptions, and a 152.87 passer efficiency rating. He finished his Oregon career with 7,555 passing yards.
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Kelly Holcomb
Bryan Kelly Holcomb (born July 9, 1973) is a former American football quarterback of the National Football League. He was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 1995. He played college football at Middle Tennessee State.
Holcomb also was a member of the Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles and Minnesota Vikings.
Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship. He and his wife Jessi have six children, Bekette Joseph born May 21, 1999, Kayla Robyn born October 2, 2001, and Shayne Kelly born December 12, 2004, Haylee Jessica born September 30, 2006, and twins born about 2 months ahead of time on October 6, 2009. Brendan James was born at 7:54 A.M at 3 pounds 12 ounces and Elijah Cooper born at 8:15 A.M at 3 pounds 14 ounces.
Holcomb played college football at Middle Tennessee State University. During his freshman season in 1991, his near-perfect performance versus then No. 1 ranked Florida State at Doak Campbell Stadium versus a secondary that featured future NFL players Terrell Buckley and Clifton Abraham put him on the map. For the day, Holcomb completed 20 of 28 passes for 188 yards in his first college start.
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Kelly Petillo
Cavino Michele "Kelly" Petillo, (December 5, 1903 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 30, 1970 Los Angeles, California) was an American race car driver.
Petillo competed in the Indianapolis 500 on ten occasions, winning the race in 1935 in a year that marked the first win by a car powered by an Offenhauser engine. Petillo went on to win that year's United States National Driving Championship.
In 1937 Petillo participated in the Vanderbilt Cup but engine problems forced him out of the race. Kelly Petillo encountered problems later in his life, spending some time in jail and dying of emphysema in 1970.
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Ken Venturi
Kenneth Venturi (born May 15, 1931) is an American former professional golfer and golf broadcaster.
Venturi was born in San Francisco, California. He learned golf from an early age, and developed his game at Harding Park Golf Course and other public courses in the area. In the early 1950s, Venturi had been a pupil of the great Byron Nelson, and was also influenced by playing partner Ben Hogan. He won the California State Amateur Championship in 1951 and 1956, serving in the Army in Korea in the interim. Venturi first gained national attention in 1956 while still an amateur; he finished second in that year's Masters, by one shot to Jack Burke, Jr., after leading from the first round. Venturi shot a final-round 80 in very windy conditions, and relinquished a four-shot lead, which prevented him from winning outright and thus becoming the first amateur to do so in the history of The Masters. Years later it would be compared to Greg Norman's back nine collapse in 1996.
Venturi was a regular winner during his early years on the PGA Tour after turning pro at the end of 1956. He again come close to winning the Masters in 1958 and 1960, both times being edged out by Arnold Palmer.
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Kurt Warner
Kurtis Eugene "Kurt" Warner (born June 22, 1971) is a former American football player. He played quarterback for three National Football League (NFL) teams: the St. Louis Rams, the New York Giants, and the Arizona Cardinals. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1994 after playing college football at Northern Iowa. Warner would go on to be considered one of the best undrafted players of all time, following a 12-year career regarded as one of the greatest stories in NFL history.
Warner first attained stardom while playing for the St. Louis Rams from 1998–2003, where he won two NFL MVP awards in 1999 and 2001 as well as the Super Bowl MVP award in Super Bowl XXXIV. He led the 2008 Arizona Cardinals to Super Bowl XLIII (the franchise's first-ever Super Bowl berth), and owns the three highest single-game passing yardage totals in Super Bowl history. Warner currently holds the seventh-highest career passer rating of all-time (93.7), and the third-highest career completion percentage in NFL history with 65.5%.
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Kyle Boller
Kyle Bryan Boller (born June 17, 1981) is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at The University of California. Boller has also played for the St. Louis Rams.
Boller earned the 1998 California State Player of the Year honors after an outstanding senior season at William S. Hart High School in Santa Clarita, CA. He led Hart to the CIF Southern Section Division III title with a 13–1 record. He passed for California prep record of 4,838 yards and threw for 59 TDs, the 2nd-best mark in California prep history, and ended the season completing 290 of 454 passes (63.9%). Because of this, he was considered by many to be the best prospect to emerge from The Valley Region of Los Angeles since John Elway came out of Granada Hills High School in 1979. During the 1998 season, Boller also played the position of safety on defense, and intercepted a pass in the final minute of the sectional championship game. He was rated the number one QB prospect in the nation by PrepStar and was that publication's national Offensive Co-Player of the Year.
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Lafayette Russell
Lafayette H. "Reb" Russell (May 31, 1905 – March 16, 1978) was an American football running back in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at the University of Nebraska and Northwestern University. He was also a small-time actor, appearing in a series of low-budget Westerns.
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Lawrence Brignolia
Lawrence Brignolia is an American athlete of Italian descent. He won the 1899 Boston Marathon.
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Lawrence McCutcheon
Lawrence McCutcheon (born June 2, 1950, in Plainview, Texas) is a former American football running back for the Los Angeles Rams from 1972–1980, the Denver Broncos & Seattle Seahawks in 1980 and finished his playing career in 1981 with the Buffalo Bills, reuniting with his former Rams coach Chuck Knox.
McCutcheon was selected in the third Round of the 1972 NFL Draft by the Rams out of Colorado State University. He appeared in 89 games for the Rams, appearing in seven playoff games including Super Bowl XIV. In 1975 McCutcheon established a Postseason record by rushing for 202 yards on 37 carries in the playoff game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
McCutcheon led the Rams in rushing for 5 consecutive seasons from 1973–1977 and was named to the Pro Bowl each year. During his tenure with the Rams, McCutcheon gained a total of 6,186 yards on 1,425 carries. In addition to his 5 consecutive Pro Bowl appearances, McCutcheon was named Second-team All-Pro in 1974, All-NFC in 1977 & Second-team All-NFC in 1973, 1975 & 1976.
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Leo Nomellini
Leo Joseph Nomellini (June 19, 1924 – October 17, 2000) was a Hall of Fame American football player with the San Francisco 49ers. He was born at Lucca in Italy. He was a two-time All-American at the University of Minnesota and the 49ers' first-ever NFL draft choice in 1950.
Nomellini played every 49ers game for 14 seasons, 174 regular-season and 266 pro games in all. During his career he played both defensive and offensive tackle, winning all pro honors at both positions. He was selected to the All-NFL team six times, two years on offense, four years on defense. Nomellini was named to the NFL's all-time team as a defensive tackle.
During the off-season Nomellini often wrestled professionally as Leo "The Lion" Nomellini.
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LeRoy Irvin
Leroy Irvin was a member of the Los Angeles Rams from 1980 to 1989. He played cornerback. He played in the Pro Bowl in 1985 and 1986. He currently holds the record for most punt return yards in a single game (207) against the Atlanta Falcons in 1981. Irvin is one of only a few players in NFL history to be named all-pro at two positions. Irvin was born in Fort Dix, NJ and attended high school at Glenn Hills High School in Augusta, Georgia. He began his college career in 1976 at the University of Kansas.
For his career, Irvin made two pro bowl appearances (1985,1986) and was named all-pro four seasons (1981, '82, '85 and '86). He currently works with former Los Angeles Rams teammate Vince Ferragamo at End Zone Mortgage in Anaheim Hills, CA. He most recently started a company alongside former Los Angeles Rams teammate Eric Dickerson called Original Mini Jerseys. The company holds an NFL license and offers a unique sports memorbilia product.
He was an assistant football coach at California State University Northridge in 1992.
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Linda Fratianne
Linda Sue Fratianne (born August 2, 1960 in Los Angeles-Northridge, California, U.S.) is a former American Olympic figure skater who won four consecutive U.S. Championships (1977–1980).
Linda Fratianne's father was the former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Fratianne, who died in 2002. Her mother was Virginia Fratianne. Her parents were divorced.
Throughout her figure skating career, she was coached by Frank Carroll.
Fratianne was particularly known for her ability to complete difficult triple jumps with ease and beauty. She became the first female skater to land two different types of triple jumps (toe loop and salchow) in her free skating programs in 1976 at the U.S. National Championships. Her strong free skating technique complemented her elegant style, which made her the best overall American skater of the period.
At the World Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo, Japan in 1977, she won her first world title by upsetting the favorite going into the Championship: East Germany's Anett Pötzsch. This victory was attributed to the combination of solid jumping skills, strong basic skating skills, and exceptional artistry. In fact, Fratianne fell on her triple salchow jump in her free skating routine, but these positive qualities were significant enough to prompt the judges to place her above Pötzsch.
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Lindy Remigino
Lindy John Remigino (born June 3, 1931) is an American track and field athlete, the 1952 Olympic 100 m champion.
Remigino was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York in 1931. He was named after aviator Charles Lindbergh.
In 1952 he won the ICAAAA 220 championship in 1952, then placed close second to Morgan State's sprinter, Art Bragg, at the US Olympic Trials. The expected main American contender for the Olympic title, Jim Golliday, was injured and did not qualify.
In Helsinki, Remigino continued on a roll. In pre-Olympic workouts, none of the other spinters managed to come close to catching him in the practice runs. Italian fans watching got to cheering him on. Of the successful American qualifiers, Art Bragg was injured prior to the Games, but, Dean Smith, of Texas, did qualify for the final alongside Remigino. The Olympic 100 meters final was one of the most exciting in the history of the event.
Out of the blocks, John Treloar took a step ahead, but Remigino the eventual Olympic champion and several more quickly picked him up, with Jamaica's Herb McKenley lagging well behind. By the 80 m mark, Remigino held that big lead: however, in his excitement at sight of the advancing tape, he pitched forward in a virtual lean. He therefore decelerated in the lean, and, as McKenley came quickly, at the tape no one was certain who won. The officials, however, agreed to give gold medal to Remigino.
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Lou Ambers
Luigi Giuseppe d'Ambrosio (November 8, 1913 – April 24, 1995), aka Lou Ambers, was a lightweight boxer who fought from 1932 to 1941.
Managed by Al Weill and trained by Charley Goldman, the "Herkimer Hurricane", as he was known, began his career losing only once in more than three years when he faced future hall of fame lightweight champion Tony Canzoneri on May 10, 1935. Canzoneri defeated him over 15 rounds on a decision. Ambers did not let the defeat discourage him. He won his next 15 fights and gained revenge when he captured the lightweight championship by decisioning Canzoneri in 15 rounds on September 3, 1936.
On August 17, 1938 Ambers met Henry Armstrong in a historic title fight. Armstrong was attempting to become the first fighter in history to win and hold three world titles simultaneously. In a great fight, Ambers was knocked down twice, in the fifth and sixth rounds, and appeared badly beaten. He then mounted a great comeback, but lost the controversial split decision. A rematch was inevitable.
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Lou Carnesecca
Luigi P. "Lou" Carnesecca (born January 5, 1925 in New York City) is a retired American college basketball coach at St. John's University. He coached the men's basketball program to 526 wins and 200 losses over 24 seasons (1965–70, 1973–92). The colorful "Looie" (as he was popularly known by fans and by the media) reached the post-season in every season he coached the team, including a Final Four appearance in 1985. He was selected as the National Coach of the Year in 1983 and 1985 by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
Carnesecca is widely known for his sense of humor and his signature sweaters. In November 2004, St. John's University officially dedicated and renamed the historic Alumni Hall to Carnesecca Arena.
Carnesecca graduated from St. John's in 1950. He also coached his high school alma mater, St. Ann's (now academic and athletic powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School), where he was succeeded by Jack Curran. Carnesecca also coached the New York Nets of the defunct American Basketball Association, now the NBA's New Jersey Nets, in the early 1970s, when they were playing in Island Garden in West Hempstead, New York.
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Lou Duva
Louis "Lou" Duva (born May 28, 1922) is a boxing trainer and manager who has handled some of the most famous boxers in the world including 19 World Champions. The Duva family have promoted boxing events in over 20 countries on six continents. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame, National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, and the Meadowlands Sports Hall of Fame.
Duva was born in New York City to Italian immigrants, the sixth of seven children. After spending time growing up in Little Italy, New York, his family then moved to Paterson, New Jersey. Duva's childhood was an impoverished one and he had to do many jobs to try to help his family.
Duva's 23-year-old brother, Carl Duva, introduced young Lou to boxing when the boy was only 10 years old. Lou polished his own boxing skills and by age 12 was both an amateur and ballroom brawler. However Lou as a boxer did not have much luck, although that might have been due to the fact he barely had time to train, having to go out to the street and perform many types of jobs to try to help the Duva family make ends meet.
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Lou Ferrigno
Louis Jude "Lou" Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951)) is an American actor, fitness trainer/consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron. As an actor, he is best known for portraying the titular role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk and for voicing the character in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations. He has also appeared in European-produced fantasy-adventures such as Sinbad of the Seven Seas and Hercules, and as himself in the sitcom The King of Queens and the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man.
Lou Ferrigno was born in Brooklyn, New York to Victoria and Matt Ferrigno, a police lieutenant. He is of Italian descent. Soon after he was born, Ferrigno says he believes he suffered a series of ear infections and lost 75 to 80% of his hearing, though his condition was not diagnosed until he was three years old. Ferrigno started weight training at age 13, citing body builder and Hercules star Steve Reeves as one of his role models. He was also a fan of the Hercules films that starred Reeves—and would later play Hercules as well. Ferrigno's other personal heroes as a child were Spider-Man and the Hulk. Ferrigno attended St. Athanasius Grammar School and Brooklyn Technical High School, where he learned metal working.
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Lou Little
Lou "Luigi Piccolo" Little (December 6, 1893 – May 28, 1979) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Georgetown College, now Georgetown University, from 1924 to 1929 and at Columbia University from 1930 to 1956, compiling a career college football record of 151–128–13. Little played college football as a tackle at the University of Pennsylvania from 1916 to 1919 and then with the Frankford Yellow Jackets from 1920 to 1923. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1960. He appeared as Lu Libble in Jack Kerouac's novel Maggie Cassidy, a fictionalized account of Kerouac's early life.
Little, who graduated from Worcester Academy, played college football at the University of Pennsylvania. Little gained national notoriety as a varsity tackle during 1916 and 1919. Between those years, he served with distinction during World War I with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Commissioned as a lieutenant, he was promoted to a captain in the 6th Infantry Division. He saw action in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
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Louis Zamperini
Louis Silvie Zamperini (born January 26, 1917) is a World War II prisoner of war survivor, inspirational speaker, and former American Olympic distance runner.
Louis Zamperini was born in Olean, New York, to Anthony and Louise Zamperini. He had an older brother named Pete, and two younger sisters, Virginia and Sylvia. The Zamperini family moved to Torrance, California in the 1920s, where Louis attended Torrance High School. The son of Italian immigrants, Louis spoke no English when his family moved to California. This made him a target for bullies, so his father taught him how to box in self-defense. Soon he was "beating the tar out of every one of them... but I was so good at it that I started relishing the idea of getting even. I was sort of addicted to it."
"Before long he was picking fights just to see if anyone could keep up with him. From juvenile thug, he progressed to 'teenage hobo.' Hopping a train to Mexico, he courted danger for the thrill of it. 'I caught a wild cow in a ravine and tore my kneecap till it was just hanging off,' he recalled. 'I snapped my big toe jumping out of some giant bamboo; they just sewed it back on. I’ve got so many scars, they’re criss-crossing each other!'"
(USC News, "The Great Zamperini", 2003)
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Marc Bulger
Marc Robert Bulger [pronounced /ˈbʊldʒər/] (born April 5, 1977) is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at West Virginia.
Bulger was also a member of the Atlanta Falcons, St. Louis Rams, and Baltimore Ravens. He was the 2004 Pro Bowl MVP.
Bulger played college football at West Virginia University where he holds 20 passing records including 8,153 passing yards. He was a sports management major.
Bulger was originally drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft and spent training camp with the team before being waived.
Bulger spent two weeks on the practice squad of the Atlanta Falcons during the 2000 season.
After spending time on the St. Louis Rams practice squad late in the 2000 season, Bulger was re-signed by the Rams on January 12, 2001.
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Marco Andretti
Marco Michael Andretti (born March 13, 1987) is an American auto racing driver who drives the #26 car for Andretti Autosport in the IndyCar Series. He is the son of 1991 IndyCar World Series champion Michael Andretti and the grandson of racing legend Mario Andretti. In his rookie year, he finished second in the 2006 Indianapolis 500 in the second closest finish in the race's history.
Andretti won eight races in the 2003 Barber Formula Dodge Eastern Championship, and was champion in the Barber National and Southern class the following year.
Still barely out of high school, he raced in the Star Mazda series in 2005 and also made six starts in the Indy Pro Series. He won three times (at St. Petersburg, Liberty Challenge, and Sonoma) and finished 10th in points despite only starting half the races.
Motorsports journalist Gordon Kirby suggested at the Champ Car finale in Mexico City that the youngest Andretti would be replacing Dan Wheldon in his #26 Jim Beam Dallara-Honda for 2006 with Michael Andretti coming out of retirement to run a fifth car for his Andretti Green Racing team at the Indianapolis 500. Though a novel proposition to some, it was later confirmed in a December 15 press conference that he would move up to the Indy Racing League full time as the youngest driver in series history and would trade sponsors (New York Stock Exchange and Motorola) with Dario Franchitti as Andretti was not old enough to run an alcohol-sponsored car.
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Marcus Brady
Marcus Brady (Born September 24, 1979 in San Diego, California) is a former professional Canadian football quarterback and is currently the offensive coordinator for the Montreal Alouettes. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Toronto Argonauts in 2002. He played college football for the Cal State Northridge Matadors.
Brady also played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Montreal Alouettes.
He attended Cal State Northridge as a business major, where he started 43 straight games. He held his school’s all-time lead for completions (1,036), attempts (1,677), yards (12,445) and touchdowns (109).
He was acquired by the Alouettes as a free agent in 2006. He backed up starter Anthony Calvillo and was used primarily for short yardage situations. He also punted for the Alouettes in place of Damon Duval.
He has also played for the Toronto Argonauts, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the CFL as well as the Green Bay Packers in the NFL.
He retired on April 2, 2009, and became the receivers coach for the Alouettes. Following the departure of Scott Milanovich, Brady was promoted to offensive coordinator on December 4, 2011.
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Mario Andretti
Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is a retired Italian American world champion racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR (the other being Dan Gurney). He also won races in midget cars, and sprint cars. During his career, Andretti won the 1978 Formula One World Championship, four IndyCar titles (three under USAC-sanctioning, one under CART), and IROC VI. To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), Daytona 500 (1967) and the Formula One World Championship, and, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti's victory at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits.
Andretti had a long career in racing. He was the only person to be named United States Driver of the Year in three decades (1967, 1978, and 1984). He was also one of only three drivers to win races on road courses, paved ovals, and dirt tracks in one season, a feat that he accomplished four times. With his final IndyCar win in April 1993, Andretti became the first driver to win IndyCar races in four different decades and the first to win automobile races of any kind in five.
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Mario Tonelli
Mario Tonelli (March 27, 1916 – January 7, 2003) was a professional American football player who played running back for one season for the Chicago Cardinals
A Sergeant in the US Army 200th Coast Artillery who survived the Bataan Death March. During the Death March his Notre Dame class ring was stolen by a Japanese guard. Miraculously it was returned by an English speaking Japanese Officer who had been educated at the University of Southern California and had seen Tonelli score the winning touchdown in the 1937 game between the two schools. He later buried the ring in a metal soap dish beneath his barracks to confound would be thieves. The ring became his talisman. Was imprisoned at Camp O'Donnell where he was to witness thousands of deaths and atrocities committed by the Japanese. Later he was transferred to Davo Penal Colony "Dapecol." Of the 2,009 estimated total number of POWs that were in Dapecol during its exsistance from October 1942- June 1944 only 805 would survive the war. Had the nickname "Motts" while in the Army & as a Prisoner of War.
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Mark Bavaro
Mark Bavaro (born April 28, 1963) is a former American football tight end who played for the New York Giants (1985–1990), Cleveland Browns (1992), and Philadelphia Eagles (1993–1994) in the National Football League (NFL). Bavaro was selected to the Pro Bowl for his performances in the 1986 and 1987 seasons and was a member of the Giants teams that won Super Bowls XXI and XXV.
After an All-American career at the University of Notre Dame, Bavaro was drafted by the Giants in the fourth round (#100 overall) in the 1985 NFL Draft. He quickly emerged as a starter in his rookie season and became renowned during his Giants career for his blocking, toughness, and receiving skills. After a degenerative knee condition forced him to sit out the 1991 season, he returned to play three seasons for the Browns and Eagles before retiring in 1995. Since retiring Bavaro has done work as a pro-life activist. His brother David also played in the NFL for four seasons.
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Mark Rypien
Mark Robert Rypien (born October 2, 1962, Calgary, Alberta) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He is the first Canadian-born quarterback to start in the NFL.
After attending Shadle Park high school in Spokane, Washington, Rypien played college football at Washington State University. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. He then left college early and was selected in the sixth round of the 1986 NFL Draft. He spent the next two years on the Washington Redskins injured reserved list. He watched from the sidelines as the Redskins won Super Bowl XXII under coach Joe Gibbs in January 1988. With Doug Williams aging and the trading of Jay Schroeder to the Los Angeles Raiders, Rypien emerged.
In his first full year as a starter, he threw for 3,768 yards with 22 touchdowns. He gained his first Pro Bowl berth, albeit as an injury replacement. He was best known for his accuracy as a deep passer,developing an incredible sense of timing with receivers downfield.
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Marlin McKeever
Marlin Thomas McKeever (January 1, 1940 – October 27, 2006) was an American football defensive end, fullback and punter at the University of Southern California and a tight end and linebacker during his 13-year National Football League (NFL) career. He was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
McKeever earned two-time All-America honors during his years playing, 1958-60. He was the Trojans' leading receiver in his junior and senior years. His work at linebacker got the attention of professional football scouts.
McKeever was a first round pick in the 1961 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams, playing in the league from 1961 to 1973. He spent 1961-66 with the Rams, 1967 with the Minnesota Vikings, 1968-70 with the Washington Redskins, 1971-72 back with the Rams and finally 1973 with the Philadelphia Eagles before retiring. He was a one-time Pro Bowler, in 1966. During his professional career, he was coached by four members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame: George Allen, Bud Grant, Otto Graham, and Vince Lombardi.
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Marshall Faulk
Marshall William Faulk (born February 26, 1973) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for twelve seasons. He played college football for San Diego State University, and was a three-time All-American. He was selected by the Indianapolis Colts as the second overall pick in the 1994 NFL Draft, and he also played professionally for the NFL's St. Louis Rams. Faulk is one of only three NFL players (Marcus Allen and Tiki Barber being the others) to reach at least 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards; he is the only one to amass 12,000 yards rushing and 6,000 yards receiving. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
He is currently a pro football analyst for NFL Total Access, Thursday Night Football, and NFL GameDay Morning on the NFL Network.
Faulk was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended George Washington Carver High School in Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where he played for the Carver Rams high school football team.
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Marty Liquori
Martin ("Marty") Liquori (born 11 September 1949) is an American middle distance athlete.
Liquori first rose to fame when he became the third American high schooler to break the four-minute mile by running a 3:59.8 in 1967, three years after Jim Ryun first did it.
He grew up in Cedar Grove, New Jersey and attended Essex Catholic High School. After high school, Liquori enrolled at Villanova University. There he was coached by the legendary Jumbo Elliott.
Liquori made the U.S. Olympic team in 1968 as a nineteen-year-old freshman. He reached the finals of the 1,500 meter run but suffered a stress fracture and finished 12th. He was the youngest person ever to compete in the final.
In 1969, he finished second to Ryun in the NCAA indoor mile, then won the NCAA and AAU outdoor mile championships by turning the tables on Ryun and beating him. He repeated the AAU outdoor in 1970 and had his best year in 1971, winning the NCAA and AAU outdoor titles, and a gold medal in the 1,500 m at the Pan-American Games. In 1969 and 1971 he was ranked number 1 in the world for 1500 meters/mile. In 1977 he was ranked number 1 in 5000 meters and set a U.S. record of 13:15.1 while finishing second to Miruts Yifter in the inaugural World Cup.
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Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968) is an American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist. She was the first female gymnast from outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title.
Retton was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, of Italian heritage (her family's original surname was "Rotunda"). Her father, Ronnie, operated a coal-industry transportation equipment business. She attended Fairmont Senior High School, but did not graduate. She competed in the Olympic games during her sophomore year.
Retton lived in Houston, Texas until 2009, when her family returned to West Virginia. She is married to former Houston real estate developer Shannon Kelley, who now works for the Fairmont State University athletic department. Together they have four daughters: Shayla Rae Kelley (born 1995), McKenna Lane Kelley (born 1997), Skyla Brae Kelley (born 2000), and Emma Jean Kelley (born 2002).
Inspired by watching Nadia Comăneci on television, Retton took up gymnastics in her hometown of Fairmont. She was coached by Gary Rafaloski. She then decided to move to Houston, Texas, to train under Romanians Béla and Márta Károlyi, who had coached Nadia Comăneci before their defection to the United States. Under the Károlyis, Retton soon began to make a name for herself in the United States, winning the American Cup in 1983 and placing second to Dianne Durham (another Károlyi student) at the US Nationals that same year. Retton missed the World Championships in 1983 due to a wrist injury. Nevertheless, Retton won the American Classic in 1983 and 1984, as well as Japan's Chunichi Cup in 1983.
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Matt Biondi
Matthew Nicholas Biondi (born October 8, 1965 in Palo Alto, California) is a three-time U.S. Olympic swimmer in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Summer Olympics, winning a total of 11 medals. He is a member of the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Biondi left Seoul with five gold medals, setting world records in four of those events.
Biondi started his aquatics career as a swimmer and water polo player in his hometown of Moraga, California. As he moved into his teens, his incredible abilities as a sprint swimmer began to emerge. Though he did not start swimming year-round until he started at Campolindo High School, by his senior year Biondi was the top schoolboy sprinter in America with a National High School record of 20.40 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle. He accepted a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley to swim and play water polo, and enrolled in 1983. In his freshman year, he played on Berkeley's NCAA Championship water polo team, and made the consolation finals at the 1984 NCAA Swimming Championships.
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Merlin Olsen
Merlin Jay Olsen (September 15, 1940 – March 11, 2010) was an American football player in the National Football League, NFL commentator, and actor. He played his entire 15-year career with the Los Angeles Rams and was elected to the Pro Bowl in 14 of those seasons, a current record shared with Bruce Matthews. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. As an actor he portrayed the farmer Jonathan Garvey on Little House on the Prairie. After leaving that series, he starred in his own NBC drama, Father Murphy, playing the title role of a foster dad posing as a traveling priest.
Born to Lynn Jay and Merle Barrus Olsen in Logan, Utah, the second of nine siblings and the first-born son, Merlin Olsen had three brothers and five sisters: Colleen, Clark, Lorraine, Gwen, Phil, Winona, Ramona, and Orrin.
Olsen attended Utah State University where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and was a three-year letterman in football as a defensive tackle. He graduated from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at USU with a bachelor's degree in Finance in 1962 and a master's degree in Economics in 1971. He later received an honorary doctorate degree in business from the Huntsman School. In football, as a senior, he was a consensus All-American selection (making the vast majority of All-America teams) and was the winner of the Outland Trophy. After Olsen's junior year of 1960 he was also named All-American by the Football Writers Association of America and Newspaper Enterprise Association. He was also All-Conference in both 1960 and 1961. Olsen and Utah State were in the 1960 Sun Bowl, losing to New Mexico State, 20–13. Led by Olsen, the Aggie defense held the New Mexico State Aggies to just 44 rushing yards on 32 carries.
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Michael Andretti
Michael Mario Andretti (born October 5, 1962) is a retired American CART and Formula One driver and owner of the Andretti Autosport team in the IndyCar Series. Andretti is the son of Mario Andretti and the father of Marco Andretti.
Andretti started racing in 1980, driving a Formula Vee car in Local SCCA events. In 1981 he won six of the 11 Super Vee races and won the championship. He moved on to drive in Formula Atlantic, and won the Championship in 1983. In the same year he joined his father and Philippe Alliot in the Porsche Kremer Racing Team, taking third place in the Le Mans 24 Hours, driving a Porsche 956.
He made his CART debut in 1984, racing for the Kraco team. He managed five third place finishes and ended the season in seventh overall. In the Indianapolis 500, he finished fifth and shared the Rookie of the Year award with Roberto Guerrero. He went on to win his first IndyCar race in 1986 at Long Beach, finishing that year as championship runner-up after collecting other wins at Milwaukee and Phoenix.
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Mickey Joseph
Mickey Joseph (born on March 5, 1968) is a former starting quarterback for the University of Nebraska. He led his team to a 9-2 regular season record as a junior in his only season as the team's starting signal caller in 1990 under the direction of head coach Dr. Tom Osborne. He now serves as the Interim Head Football Coach at Langston University.
Mickey Joseph played quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The native of Marrero, Louisiana started off his career as a capable backup playing behind starters' Steve Taylor and Gerry Gdowski for his freshman and sophomore years. He took over the team as the starter in a two quarterback system with teammate Mike Grant during Joseph's junior year in 1990.
That season, Joseph got Nebraska off to a perfect 8-0-0 record as expectations in Lincoln, Nebraska were building up off a No. 3 ranking from the AP Poll. The next game came on Nov. 3, 1990 as Nebraska faced nationally ranked No. 1 Colorado. With 2:38 left in the third quarter of this contest, Joseph connected with his tight end Johnnie Mitchell on a 48 yard touchdown pass to give the Huskers a 12-0 lead. However, Colorado surged ahead by scoring 27 unanswered fourth quarter points to win the game, 27-12.
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Mike Eruzione
Michael "Ritz" "Rizzo" Eruzione (pronounced /ɨˌruːziˈoʊni/; born October 25, 1954) is an American former ice hockey player who was the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous Miracle on Ice game.
Eruzione was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts. He learned hockey playing for Youth Hockey of Winthrop as part of the GBYHL (Greater Boston Youth Hockey League). He graduated from Winthrop Senior High School in 1972, where he was captain of the varsity hockey team during his senior year. He then spent a year at Berwick Academy to fine tune his hockey skills in a New England Prep environment. After attending Berwick, Eruzione starred for Boston University, averaging over twenty goals a season for four years. Eruzione also played for Team USA at the 1975 and 1976 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments. He then moved on to the Toledo Goaldiggers of the International Hockey League, winning the rookie of the year award in 1978 and leading the team to the Turner Cup championship in that year. After his second year in Toledo, Eruzione, who played forward, was named the captain of the 1980 Olympic hockey team, scoring the winning goal against the Soviets and helping the Americans win the gold medal against Finland. Eruzione's winning goal against the Soviet Union has become one of the most played highlights in American sports, and was voted the greatest highlight of all time by ESPN viewers in March 2008.
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Mike Fratello
Michael Robert "Mike" Fratello (born February 24, 1947) is an American color analyst and a professional basketball coach. He previously coached the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA, and is currently the head coach of the Ukraine national basketball team. Mike Fratello is among the winningest head coaches in NBA history, ranking 18th in both all-time regular season wins (667) and games coached (1,215).
Fratello was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and he graduated from Hackensack High School, where he was captain of the basketball, baseball, football and field hockey teams. He was named to the Bergen "All County" Football team as a center in his senior year. He then went on to Montclair State College in Montclair, New Jersey to play football. Upon graduation he returned to Hackensack H.S. as an assistant for both the basketball and football teams. Fratello then went on to the University of Rhode Island as a graduate assistant assigned to head coach Tom Carmody, also coaching the U.R.I. freshman basketball team. He had been a college basketball assistant at James Madison University under Lou Campanelli and served as an assistant for Rollie Massimino at Villanova before going to the NBA as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks during Hubie Brown's tenure.
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Mike Lucci
Mike Lucci (born December 29, 1939) is a former National Football League player for the Cleveland Browns for 3 seasons from 1962 to 1964 and 9 seasons with the Detroit Lions from 1965 to 1973. Lucci played collegiately at the University of Tennessee and for one year at the University of Pittsburgh.
He was a 6'2", 230-pound middle linebacker known for his ability to play through injury. Lucci’s defensive coverage abilities earned him a total of 21 career interceptions with Detroit. He returned four of those interceptions for touchdowns. Lucci was voted by his teammates the Lions’ Defensive Most Valuable Player from 1969-1971. In addition, he was All-NFL in 1969, NFC All-Conference in 1970-1971. Lucci was named to the Pro Bowl following the 1971 season where he intercepted five passes, two of which he returned for touchdowns.
Lucci also appeared as himself in the 1968 film Paper Lion, and from 1976-78 served as color commentator for Lions broadcasts on WJR radio.
After retiring from the NFL Lucci was a successful business executive and entrepreneur. He is the former president of Bally Total Fitness which at the time was the largest commercial operator of fitness centers in the United States.
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Nick Bollettieri
Nicholas James Bollettieri (born July 31, 1931 in Pelham, New York) is an American tennis coach who is credited with developing many world-class champions, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Mary Pierce. He has also worked with 2006 U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova, Daniela Hantuchova, Jelena Janković, Nicole Vaidišová, Sabine Lisicki, Sara Errani, Tommy Haas, Max Mirnyi, Xavier Malisse, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Martina Hingis, Anna Kournikova and Marcelo Ríos. He coached Boris Becker for two years.
Nick Bollettieri attended Pelham Memorial High School in his home town and was a charter member of the Beta Lambda Chapter of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity, graduating in 1949. He graduated in 1953 from Spring Hill College (Mobile, Alabama) with a degree in philosophy. After serving with the United States Army, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant, he turned in 1956 to teaching tennis after dropping out of the University of Miami Law School. Bollettieri's first students included Sheryl Smith and Brian Gottfried. His first formal tennis camp was at Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
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Nick Buoniconti
Nicholas Anthony Buoniconti (born December 15, 1940) is a former American Football League and NFL Hall of Fame middle linebacker, who played for the Boston Patriots and Miami Dolphins.
Born on December 15, 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts, Buoniconti graduated from Notre Dame, and was drafted by the American Football League's Patriots in the thirteenth round of the 1962 AFL draft.
As a tackle, Buoniconti was the captain of the 1961 Notre Dame football team, but was considered by NFL scouts as "too small" to play pro football. Drafted by the Boston Patriots in the 1962 American Football League college draft and switched to linebacker, Buoniconti made an immediate impact, as he was named the team's rookie of the year. The following year, he helped Boston capture the 1963 AFL Eastern Division title. With Boston, he appeared in five AFL All-Star Games, and recorded 24 interceptions, which is still the seventh-most in team history. He was named 2nd team All-AFL in 1963 and the following season began a run of five consensus All-AFL seasons in the following six seasons, missing only 1968 when he was named second-team All-AFL. Buoniconti is a member of the Patriots All-1960s (AFL) Team and the AFL All-Time Team.
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Nolan Cromwell
Nolan Neil Cromwell (born January 30, 1955) is an American football player and coach. He was an All-Pro safety for the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL and played for the University of Kansas in college where he earned All-American honors. Cromwell played for the Rams from 1977 through 1987 and was named to the Pro Bowl in four consecutive years, 1980 through 1983. He played on the Rams' 1979 Super Bowl XIV team. He was the Rams' wide receivers coach from 2010 to 2011.
Cromwell played at Logan High School as a freshman, helping the basketball team win a state championship. When his family moved to Ransom, Cromwell earned the nickname the "Ransom Rambler" while attending Ransom High School as a standout in football, basketball and track. He was a national AAU junior champion in the decathlon, a three-time state champion in track and earned consensus All-State honors in football and basketball. He was named the Wichita Eagle’s high school football player of the decade for the 1970s.
Cromwell, nicknamed "The Ransom Rambler", was an honorable mention All-America quarterback for the University of Kansas Jayhawks. He started at quarterback for two seasons, throwing 92 passes and completing 33 for 606 yards. He is one of KU's ten 1,000-yard rushers in school history.
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Norm Van Brocklin
Norman Mack "Norm" Van Brocklin (March 15, 1926 – May 2, 1983), nicknamed "The Dutchman", was an American football player and coach. He was also a first rate punter in college and in the NFL. Van Brocklin was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
Van Brocklin was born in Parade, Dewey County, South Dakota to Mack and Ethel Van Brocklin and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. He played high school football at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California.
Van Brocklin served in the United States Navy from 1943 through 1945.
Van Brocklin led the Oregon Ducks to a 16-5 record as a starter, including tying with Cal for the 1948 title of the Pacific Coast Conference, forerunner of the Pac-10. Oregon did not go to the Rose Bowl, however, because Cal was voted by the other schools to represent the PCC in the game. Among the Cal voters was the University of Washington, which elevated the intensity of the Oregon-Washington rivalry. Oregon received an invitation to play SMU in the 1949 Cotton Bowl Classic, which they accepted. It was the first time that a Pacific Coast team played in a major bowl game other than the Rose Bowl. SMU won 20–13. That season, Van Brocklin was honored with an All-America selection and finished sixth in the Heisman Trophy voting. Coincidentally, the Heisman Trophy winner that year was SMU running back Doak Walker. Both Walker and Van Brocklin got Outstanding Player recognition for their performance in the Cotton Bowl Classic.
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Oshiomogho Atogwe
Oshiomogho Isaac "O.J." Atogwe (born on June 23, 1981) is a Canadian free safety of American football who currently is a free agent. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Stanford.
Atogwe has also played for the Washington Redskins.
He attended high school at W.F. Herman Secondary School in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. While he was there he starred in football, soccer, basketball, and track and field. In basketball, he was a three time All-City selection and was the league MVP as a senior. Atogwe was named All-Canada, All-Ontario and All-Academic. In football he was a two-year starter at running back and cornerback and was named the league's Defensive MVP in 1999, under head coach Harry Lumley. He was also All-city as a running back . He was a league MVP in basketball as a senior and three-time All-City selection and competed in the long jump, triple jump and 200-meter dash (22.8) in track.
Atogwe played college football and ran track for the Stanford Cardinal in the PAC-10 conference where during his career he made nine interceptions. Atogwe redshirted as a freshman at Stanford in 2000. He appeared in every game as a reserve free safety in 2001, producing four tackles on special teams. Atogwe took over the strong safety position in 2002, going on to start the next 33 games. He led the team with 71 tackles (47 solos), a sack, a fumble recovery, three forced fumbles, three interceptions and four pass deflections. He was named team co-MVP and earned Second-team All-Pac 10 Conference honors in 2003, as he again led the team with a career-high 90 tackles (54 solos), including five stops behind the line of scrimmage, two interceptions and eight pass deflections while manning the free safety position. He also led FBS with six fumble recoveries and six forced fumbles. As a senior in 2004, Atogwe started all 11 games and finished with 76 tackles, four for a loss, four interceptions and seven passes broken up.
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Pat Fischer
Patrick Fischer (born January 2, 1940 in St. Edward, Nebraska) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1961 to 1967, and the Washington Redskins from 1968 to 1977.
Fischer attended Westside High School in Omaha and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Fischer joined the NFL as the 17th-round draft choice of St. Louis in the 1961 NFL Draft. He then signed with Washington as a free agent in 1968. He was a 1969 Pro Bowler. In 1972, the Redskins won the NFC championship game of the 1972-73 NFL playoffs against the Dallas Cowboys, when they limited Roger Staubach, their quarterback, to only 9 completions in 20 attempts for 98 passing yards and 3 allowed sacks, Fischer and Mike Bass, the other cornerback, being particularly successful in shutting down their wide receivers. But though the Redskin defense allowed only 69 net passing yards, it could not stop the Miami Dolphins's running game (184 rushing yards) in losing Super Bowl VII.
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Pat Haden
Patrick Capper "Pat" Haden (born January 23, 1953) is the athletic director at the University of Southern California. He played quarterback for the USC Trojans before playing professionally in the NFL for the Los Angeles Rams from 1976 to 1981. He is a Rhodes Scholar, was a practicing attorney from 1982 to 1987, and was a partner at Riordan, Lewis & Haden, a private equity firm, from 1987 to 2010. He is also known for his work as a former sportscaster, beginning with CBS Sports in 1982, and ending his career in that field as a color commentator for NBC Sports Notre Dame football coverage.
Haden was born in New York to working-class Irish parents, the fourth of five children. He had a close relationship with his mother, Helen Haden, who told her children to "Live your life so that you have standing room only at your funeral."
As a boy, Haden had a boyhood paper route, then worked at a shoe store where he also pushed accessories in order to earn an extra commission. He had the same mentality in sports, where he used smarts and toughness he gained from keeping up with his older brothers to compensate for physical shortcomings. By high school, his parents had moved to Southern California.
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Paul Tagliabue
Paul John Tagliabue (born November 24, 1940) is a former Commissioner of the National Football League. He took the position in 1989 and was succeeded by Roger Goodell, who was elected to the position on August 8, 2006. Tagliabue's retirement took effect on September 1, 2006. He had previously served as a lawyer for the NFL. Tagliabue is currently the chair of Georgetown University's board of directors.
Tagliabue was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the third of four sons born to Charles and May Tagliabue. He received an athletic scholarship to play basketball at Georgetown University and was captain of the 1961-1962 team. He graduated in 1962 as president of his senior class, a Rhodes Scholar finalist and a Dean's List graduate.
Tagliabue graduated from New York University School of Law in 1965. He has received honorary degrees from Colgate University and Northeastern University.
From 1969 to 1989, Tagliabue practiced law with the elite Washington, D.C. firm Covington & Burling.
After serving as a lawyer for the NFL, Tagliabue was selected by NFL owners to succeed Pete Rozelle as Commissioner of the NFL in 1989.
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Pete Beathard
Peter Falconer Beathard (born March 7, 1942) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football quarterback who played professionally in the American Football League (AFL), the National Football League (NFL), and the World Football League (WFL).
Beathard played college football at the University of Southern California, winning the National Championship in 1962. Both he and Ron Vander Kelen, the Wisconsin quarterback were named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game in the 1963 Rose Bowl.
Beathard was the 1964 first-round draft choice of the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs. In 1967 Beathard was traded to the Houston Oilers in exchange for quarterback Jacky Lee and led the Oilers to the AFL Eastern Division title before losing to the Oakland Raiders 40-7 in the AFL Championship Game. Beathard took the Oilers to the AFL playoffs again in 1969.
He finished his pro career in the WFL playing for the Portland Storm in 1974 and the Chicago Winds in 1975.
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Pete Elliott
Peter R. Elliott (born September 20, 1926) is a former American football player and coach. He was an All-American quarterback on the undefeated 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team that won a national championship. Elliott served as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1956), the University of California, Berkeley (1957–1959), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1960–1966), and the University of Miami (1973–1974), compiling a career college football record of 56–72–11. Elliott was also a standout basketball player who was first-team All-Big Ten Conference in 1948 and second-team All-Big Ten in 1949 as well as team MVP in 1948. The 1948 team finished third in the eastern region of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. Elliott is the only Michigan athlete to have earned 12 letters in varsity sports: football, basketball, and golf.
Elliott played football at the University of Michigan with his brother Bump, who also became a well known college coach. In 1956, he took the head coaching job at Nebraska, lasting one year with a record of 4–6. The next year, he took over at California, where he remained until 1959 with a compiled record of 10–21. In 1958, he led the Golden Bears to an AAWU title and an appearance in the Rose Bowl, where they lost to Iowa. In 1960, Elliott succeeded Ray Eliot at Illinois and was at the school until 1966. With the Illini, his record was 31–34–1. In 1973, Elliott became head coach Miami, where he remained for two years and compiled an 11–11 record.
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Pete Herman
Pete Herman (February 12, 1896 – April 13, 1973) was one of the all time great bantamweight world champions. An Italian-American, Herman was born Peter Gulotta in New Orleans, Louisiana, and fought from 1912 until 1922. He retired with a record of 69 wins (19 by KO), 11 losses, 8 draws and 61 No Decisions in 149 Bouts.
Herman was a smooth boxer and great body puncher. He fought his first pro fight at the age of 16, and two years later held his own during a 10-round No Decision bout against world bantamweight champion Kid Williams. Herman eventually won the title from Williams, even though Williams was allowed to pick his own referee for the match. Nevertheless, referee Bill Rocap awarded Herman the decision and the bantamweight title after 20 rounds of fighting.
Herman's most memorable match was fought against Jimmy Wilde, the legendary English flyweight champion of the world. The two fought in 1920, three weeks after Herman lost his bantamweight title in Madison Square Garden to Joe Lynch.
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Phil Baroni
Philip George Baroni (born April 16, 1976) is an American mixed martial artist. He has a professional MMA record of 14–14–0. Baroni has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) where he holds a record of 3–7–0. Also he has fought in the PRIDE FC where he holds a record of 4–2–0. He has developed a reputation for his boxing ability and knockout power, although he is an accomplished wrestler as well. He formerly trained with Team Hammer House, whose members include two PRIDE fighters and former UFC heavyweight champions, Mark Coleman and Kevin Randleman.
Baroni grew up in Massapequa Park, Long Island, New York. He was expelled from Massapequa High school for assaulting a janitor at the school. Baroni attended Hofstra University before transferring to Central Michigan University, where he was a double major in biology and psychology, and earned his degree in psychology. He was also an amateur bodybuilder from the age of 17 to 20, competing in six shows in which he placed either first or second. He studied kickboxing under Keith Trimble, and had seven kickboxing matches, winning all by knock out. He also competed in 10 amateur boxing matches, also winning all 10 by knock out. Although Baroni was a fan of UFC, he did not want to compete in it until the organization had implemented weight classes.[citation needed]
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Phil Cavarretta
Philip Joseph Cavarretta (July 19, 1916 – December 18, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball first baseman, outfielder, and manager.
Cavarretta spent almost his entire baseball career with the Chicago Cubs. He was voted the 1945 National League Most Valuable Player after leading the Cubs to the pennant while winning the batting title with a .355 average. His 20 seasons (1934–1953) played for the Cubs is the second-most in franchise history, behind Cap Anson. He managed the Cubs in his final three seasons with the club.
Cavaretta attended Lane Tech High School in Chicago, and signed a professional contract with the Cubs before finishing high school. In his first professional game with Peoria at age 17 in 1934, Cavaretta hit for the cycle as a right fielder. That same year he was brought up to the Cubs to replace manager Charlie Grimm at first base. He first appeared in a major league game on September 16, 1934, less than two months after his 18th birthday, pinch-hitting unsuccessfully for the Cubs' shortstop Billy Jurges in the fifth inning of the first game of a doubleheader in Brooklyn. A week later, on September 25, in his first start and his first appearance at the Cubs' home park, Wrigley Field, Cavaretta hit a home run that supplied the winning margin in the Cubs' 1–0 win over Cincinnati. In his 1935 rookie season, he batted .275 with 82 runs batted in, also leading the league in double plays, as the Cubs captured their third pennant in seven years by winning 21 straight games in September; however, he batted only .125 in the World Series loss to the Detroit Tigers. Over the next several seasons he provided solid if unspectacular play at first base, routinely batting between .270 and .291 every season but one through 1943, though he lost significant playing time from 1938 to 1940 due to a hip injury and an ankle broken twice while sliding. In the 1938 World Series against the New York Yankees, he batted .462 as the Cubs were swept.
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Phil Esposito
Philip Anthony Esposito, OC (born February 20, 1942) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and is considered to be one of the best to have ever played in the National Hockey League. Phil is the older brother of Tony Esposito, a goaltender who, like Phil, is a Hall-of-Famer.
After retiring as a player, Esposito served as a head coach and general manager for the New York Rangers before co-founding the Tampa Bay Lightning. He was the principal studio analyst for the NHL on Fox circa 1995-1998. He now serves as Tampa Bay's radio color commentator.
Esposito signed with the Chicago Black Hawks as a teenager and was assigned to the Sarnia Legionnaires Jr. 'B' hockey team for the 1960-61 season. In just 32 games with the Legionnaires he scored 47 goals and 61 assists, for 108 points. It was a scoring pace of 3.3 points per game. In a playoff game, he scored 12 points in one game as the Legionnaires advanced to the Western Ontario final before being eliminated. After a sparkling junior season with the St. Catharines Teepees of the Ontario Hockey Association in 1962, Esposito spent two seasons with Chicago's minor league affiliate, the St. Louis Braves, scoring 90 points in his first season and 80 points in only 46 games in his second.
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Phil Rizzuto
Philip Francis Rizzuto (September 25, 1917 – August 13, 2007), nicknamed "The Scooter", was an American Major League Baseball shortstop. He spent his entire 13-year baseball career for the New York Yankees (1941–1956). Rizzuto was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
A popular figure on a team dynasty which captured 10 AL titles and seven World Championships in his 13 seasons, Rizzuto holds numerous World Series records for shortstops. His best statistical season was 1950, when he was named the American League's Most Valuable Player. Despite this offensive peak, Rizzuto was a classic "small ball" player, noted for his strong defense in the infield. The slick-fielding Rizzuto is also regarded as one of the best bunters in baseball history. When he retired, his 1,217 career double plays ranked second in major league history, trailing only Luke Appling's total of 1,424, and his .968 career fielding average trailed only Lou Boudreau's mark of .973 among AL shortstops.
Ted Williams once claimed that his Red Sox would have won most of the Yankees' 1940s and 1950s pennants if they had had Rizzuto at shortstop, but Rizzuto himself was more modest: "My stats don't shout. They kind of whisper."
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Phil Villapiano
Philip James Villapiano (born February 26, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is a former American football linebacker in the NFL. The 6-2 220-pound Villapiano played in four Pro Bowls and was a member of the Oakland Raiders Super Bowl XI winning team. Phil was Defensive AFC Rookie of the Year in 1971 and was an NFL Hall of Fame nominee.
Villapiano played college football at Bowling Green State University, and high school football at both Asbury Park High School and Ocean Township High School.
Phil is married and has three children; Andrea, Phil, and Michael. Michael is a QB who led his teams to a 2011 New England Prep School Championship, while at Cheshire Academy, Cheshire, CT, and a 2010 New Jersey State Championship (CJII), while at Rumson-Fair Haven High School. He will play football for Brown University beginning Fall 2012.
Phil has been in the International Logistics business for over thirty years, starting during offseasons while playing with the Raiders. Currently, Phil provides logistics solutions for domestic and international companies as Vice President of Sales for Odyssey Logistics & Technology, a global logistics leader, based in Danbury, CT.
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Ping Bodie
Frank Stephen (Ping) Bodie (October 8, 1887 – December 17, 1961), born Francesco Stephano Pezzolo, was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox (1911–1914), Philadelphia Athletics (1917) and New York Yankees (1919–1921). Bodie batted and threw right-handed. He was born in San Francisco, California.
One of the most feared sluggers in the 1910s, Bodie was nicknamed "Ping" for the sound made when his fifty-two-ounce bat crashed into the "dead" ball of his era. Another nickname given to him was "The Wonderful Bop." He took the surname Bodie from the California town he once lived in.
It said that Bodie provided much of the inspiration Ring Lardner had in creating the famous baseball fictional series You Know Me, Al. Appearing originally in the Saturday Evening Post, the piece was written in the form of letters written by a bush league baseball player to a friend back home.
In 1910, playing for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, Bodie hit the then fantastic total of 30 home runs, and quickly broke into the big leagues with the Chicago White Sox in 1911. Ping became a regular for four years with Chicago hitting .289 with 97 RBIs, .294, .265 and .229. After his poor season and some clashes with manager Jimmy Callahan in 1914, he was sold back to the San Francisco Seals.
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Primo Carnera
Primo Carnera (Italian pronunciation: [ˈprimo karˈnɛra]; October 26, 1906 – June 29, 1967) was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion. His career was controversial, as many believe he was "owned" by underworld figures who manipulated his career by fixing his early fights to bolster his record to give him a shot at the title.
Born in Sequals, then in the Province of Udine, now Province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy), Carnera was touted in America as being 6'7" tall and thus the tallest heavweight in history (up until that time), but he was actually 6′5½″ tall (197 cm) . He fought at as much as 275 pounds (125 kg),. Until December 19, 2005, when the 7 ft 1 in, 147 kg Nikolay Valuev won the WBA title, Jess Willard who stood 6' 6½" was the tallest champion in boxing history.
At a time when the average height in Italy was approximately 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) and in the United States 69.2 inches, Carnera was considered a giant. Though an inch shorter than Willard, he was around 40 lbs heavier and was the heaviest champion before Valuev in boxing history.
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Ralph Branca
Ralph Theodore Joseph Branca (born January 6, 1926) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball.
From 1944 through 1956, Branca played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1944–53, 1956), Detroit Tigers (1953–54), and New York Yankees (1954). He batted and threw right-handed.
His mother, Kati née Berger, was Jewish and immigrated to the United States in 1901 from Sandorf, Hungary (now Prievaly, Slovakia). His uncle Jozsef Berger was killed at the Majdanek concentration camp, and his maternal aunt Irma died at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. His father was John Branca, a trolley car conductor from Italy.
Branca was signed as a free agent by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943. He debuted on June 12, 1944, with the Dodgers, and put up a 3.04 ERA in 109.2 innings pitched in 1945, his rookie year.
A three-time All-Star, he won 80 games for the Dodgers with a career-high 21 wins in 1947. In 1947, he was second in the league in wins, innings pitched (280), and strikeouts (148), third in ERA (2.67), and sixth in won-lost percentage (.636). In 1948, he was ninth in the league in wins (14) and won-lost percentage (.609). In 1949, he led the NL in won-lost percentage (.722). In 1951, he was tenth in the NL in ERA (3.26).
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Ralph DePalma
Ralph De Palma (Biccari, December 18, 1882 – South Pasadena, March 31, 1956) was an Italian-American racecar driving champion, most notably winner of the 1915 Indianapolis 500. His entry at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame estimates that he won about 2000 races. DePalma won the 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1911 American AAA national dirt track championships and is credited with winning 24 American Champ car races. He won the Canadian national championship in 1929. DePalma estimated that he had earned $1.5 million by 1934 after racing for 27 years. He is inducted in numerous halls of fame. He competed on boards and dirt road courses and ovals.
Born in Biccari, Apulia, Italy, DePalma's family emigrated to the United States in 1893. As a young man he tried bicycle racing with mixed success, but at the age of twenty-two he began racing motorcycles before switching to the automobile dirt track racing circuit in 1909, the year that the American Automobile Association established the national driving championship.
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Randy Savage
Randy Mario Poffo (November 15, 1952 – May 20, 2011), better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler, best known for his time in World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
Savage held twenty championships during his professional wrestling career. He held six world heavyweight championships between the WWF and WCW, having won the WWF Championship twice and the WCW World Heavyweight Championship four times. In addition, he won the ICW World Heavyweight Championship three times and the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship once. Also a one-time WWF Intercontinental Champion, WWE has mentioned Savage as the greatest Intercontinental champion and credited him for bringing "a higher level of credibility to the title through his amazing in-ring performances." Aside from championships, Savage was the 1987 WWF King of the Ring and the 1995 WCW World War 3 winner. For much of his tenures in the WWF and WCW, he was managed by his real life wife, "Miss Elizabeth" Hulette.
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Ray Barbuti
Raymond ("Ray") James Barbuti (June 12, 1905 – July 8, 1988) was an American athlete and American football player, winner of two gold medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Ray Barbuti was born in Nassau County, New York and attended Syracuse University where he won the IC4A championship at 400 m in 1928 in a time of 48.8 seconds, and once scored eight touchdowns in one game. In the same year, he won the AAU Championship in the 400 m dash with a time of 51.4.
His trainer, Peter Poole, let him run his two preferred distances, the 200 yd and the 400 yd, very seldom in the same competition, so Barbuti chose to run only the 400 m at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He won 400 m with a time of 47.8 and as anchor on the US 4 x 400 m relay he won his second gold medal in a world record time of 3:14.2.
Ray Barbuti died in Canaan, New York, aged 83 because of an illness.
On December 24, 1957, Ray Barbuti appeared as a "contestant imposter" on the game show To Tell the Truth. This episode is still in existence and was most recently aired by GSN on January 20, 2009. The host was Bud Collyer and the panel consisted of Betsy Palmer, Don Ameche, Kitty Carlisle and Hy Gardner.
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Ray Mancini
Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (born Raymond Michael Mancino; March 4, 1961) is a retired American boxer. He held the World Boxing Association lightweight championship from 1982 to 1984. Mancini inherited his distinctive nickname from his father, veteran boxer Lenny "Boom Boom" Mancini, who laid the foundation for his son's career. The nickname "Boom Boom" perfectly suited the younger Mancini's wild, "whirlwind," intense fighting style.
Mancini, an Italian American, was born Raymond Michael Mancino in Youngstown, Ohio on March 4, 1961. Boxing played a prominent role in the Mancini family history. Mancini's father, Lenny Mancini (the original "Boom Boom"), was a top-ranked contender during the 1940s who was widely predicted to be a future world champion. Lenny Mancini's dream, however, was dashed when he was wounded during World War II. Although Lenny Mancini returned to boxing, limitations resulting from his injuries prevented him from fulfilling his potential.
Lenny inspired young Ray to develop his boxing skills and encouraged him to train at a gym when he was quite young. Ray had a stellar amateur career, and in 1978, he made the jump to the professional ranks. His whirlwind punching style caught the attention of network executives at several American television networks, and he became a regular on their sports programming. During this time Ray Mancini defeated some excellent boxers, including former United States champion Norman Goins.
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Richie Lucas
Richard John "Riverboat Richie" Lucas (born April 15, 1938) is an American former collegiate and Professional Football quarterback, noteworthy as a College Football Hall of Fame quarterback, and best known for his All-American career at Pennsylvania State University (1957–1959).
Lucas was born in Glassport, Pennsylvania. He was a first round pick in both the NFL and AFL drafts in 1960. Like many college stars of the era, and possibly because of the conservative style of play in the old NFL, Lucas signed with a team in the wide-open new American Football League, namely the Buffalo Bills, making him officially the franchise's first player.[1] There he played quarterback, halfback, defensive back and kick returner for two seasons before he was obtained by the AFL's Denver Broncos following the AFL's 1962 equalization draft, but he never played for the Broncos.[2]
Nicknamed "Riverboat Richie" due to his gambling instincts when calling plays,[3] Lucas won the 1959 Maxwell Trophy and was runner-up to LSU's Billy Cannon for the 1959 Heisman Trophy. He returned to Penn State following his pro football career, serving as assistant athletic director until 1998. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986.
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Rick Pitino
Rick Pitino (born September 18, 1952) is an American basketball coach. Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville. He has also served as head coach at Boston University, Providence College and the University of Kentucky, leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996. He has coached on the professional level for the NBA's New York Knicks and Boston Celtics with mixed results.
Pitino holds the distinction of being the only men's coach in NCAA history to lead three different schools (Providence, Kentucky, and Louisville) to a Final Four. (John Calipari did the same, but two of his Final Four appearances were later vacated by the NCAA.) Pitino is also only one of three coaches ever to take his school to the Final Four in four separate decades. In addition, Pitino has achieved a measure of success as an author and a motivational speaker.
Pitino, a Sicilian American and native of New York City, grew up in the Village of Bayville and was captain of the St. Dominic High School basketball team in nearby Oyster Bay, Long Island. He enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1970. He was a standout guard for the Minutemen basketball team. His 329 career assists rank tenth all-time at UMass, as of the 2009–10 season. He led the team in assists as a junior and senior. The 168 assists as a senior is the eighth-best single season total ever there. Pitino was a freshman at the same time future NBA legend Julius Erving spent his junior (and final) year at UMass, although the two never played on the same team because freshmen were ineligible to play varsity basketball at the time. Other teammates of Pitino's include Al Skinner, who also went on to become a successful college coach, and baseballer Mike Flanagan, who went on to pitch in the major leagues and win the AL Cy Young Award in 1979. Pitino earned his degree from UMass in 1974.
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Rico Petrocelli
Americo Peter "Rico" Petrocelli (born June 27, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American retired baseball shortstop and third baseman who played his entire career in the American League with the Boston Red Sox (1963–1976). After a brief stint in 1963, he joined the team full time in 1965.
In 1967 Petrocelli was selected to the All-Star game during the Carl Yastrzemski-led Red Sox' "Impossible Dream" year. In Game 6 of the World Series, he belted two home runs against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Sox ultimately lost the series 4 games to 3. In 1968 and 1969 Petrocelli led the league shortstops in fielding percentage. In 1969 he set a record (since broken) for home runs by a shortstop with 40 and repeated as an All-Star. He had another good season in 1970, hitting 29 home runs and a high-career 103 RBI.
When the Red Sox acquired Luis Aparicio in 1971, Petrocelli moved to third base. At his new position he once again was the leader in fielding percentage making only 11 errors in 463 total chances for a fielding percentage of .976. In the 1975 Fall Classic, which Boston lost to the Cincinnati Reds, Petrocelli hit .308 with four RBI and three runs, and played errorless defense. Petrocelli holds the fourth-best, all-time fielding percentage for third-basemen.
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Robert Delpino
Robert Lewis Delpino (born November 2, 1965 in Dodge City, Kansas) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League. He played six seasons for the Los Angeles Rams (1988–1992) and the Denver Broncos (1993).
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Rocky Colavito
Rocco Domenico "Rocky" Colavito, Jr. (born August 10, 1933 in New York City) is a former right fielder in Major League Baseball best known for his years with the Cleveland Indians. He wore a #6, #7 or #21 jersey during his MLB career. Colavito was the fifth player in American League history to have eleven consecutive 20-home run seasons (1956–66), exceeding 40 home runs three times and 100 runs batted in six times during that span; he also led the AL in home runs, RBI and slugging average once each. Hitting all but three of his 374 career home runs in the AL, he ranked behind only Jimmie Foxx (524) and Harmon Killebrew (then at 397) among the league's right-handed hitters when he retired. In 1965, playing every game, he became the first outfielder in AL history to complete a season with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage, and his 1272 AL games in right field ranked eighth in league history at the end of his career. He currently lives in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Colavito grew up in The Bronx as a devoted fan of the New York Yankees, particularly Joe DiMaggio. By age nine he was playing semipro baseball, and he dropped out of school at age 16 to pursue Major rules to wait until his school class graduated before signing, and only a special appeal allowed him to go pro after a one-year wait. The Yankees expressed little interest in him, and the Philadelphia Athletics had to bow out due to financial problems; the Cleveland Indians finally signed him in 1950, with two-thirds of his signing bonus deferred until he progressed in their system. He spent most of the next six years working his way up. With the Indianapolis Indians in 1954, Colavito would hit 38 home runs and accumulate 116 RBIs.
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Rocky Graziano
Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City (1 January 1919 – May 22, 1990), was an Italian American boxer. Graziano was considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch. He was ranked 23rd on Ring Magazine's list of the greatest punchers of all time.
Graziano's life story was the basis of the 1956 Oscar-winning drama film Somebody Up There Likes Me, based on his 1955 autobiography of the same title. The film starred Paul Newman and was directed by Robert Wise.
Rocky Graziano was the son of a boxer known as 'Fighting Nick Bob', and was born in Brooklyn. He later moved to Little Italy in New York's Lower East Side. Rocky grew up as a street fighter and learned to look after himself before he could read or write. He spent years in reform school, jail, and Catholic protectories.
When Rocky was as young as 3 years of age, his father would make him and his brother Joe (who was three years older) fight almost every night in boxing gloves. All the washed-up boxers from around the neighborhood would go to the Barbellas' house to drink and watch the two brothers fight. The fights usually ended badly for Rocco. As he would get hit more and more, he would become angrier and angrier. Usually he would fall asleep from getting punched or sheer tiredness. The only person in Rocco's life to feel any sort of sympathy for him was his mother. She believed Rocco was her lucky child, as he was born on the first day of the New Year. However, Rocky was in trouble for much of his childhood.
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Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano (born Rocco Francis Marchegiano; September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969) was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956. Marciano is the only champion to hold the heavyweight title and go untied and undefeated throughout his career. Marciano defended his title six times.
Marciano was born and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts to Pierino Marchegiano and Pasqualina Picciuto. Both of his parents were immigrants from Italy: his father was from Ripa Teatina, Abruzzo, while his mother was from San Bartolomeo in Galdo, Campania. Rocky had three sisters—Alice, Concetta and Elizabeth—and two brothers—Sonny and Peter. When he was about eighteen months old, he got pneumonia, from which he almost died.
In his youth, he played baseball, worked out on homemade weightlifting equipment (later in his life, Marciano was also a client of Charles Atlas) and used a stuffed mail bag that hung from a tree in his back yard as a heavy bag. He attended Brockton High School, where he played both baseball and football. However, he was cut from the school baseball team because he had joined a church league, violating a school rule forbidding players from joining other teams. He dropped out of school after finishing tenth grade.
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Rollie Massimino
Roland V. "Rollie" Massimino (born November 13, 1934) is an American basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at the Florida campus of Northwood University in West Palm Beach, a position he has held since 2006. Massimino previously served as the head men's basketball coach at Stony Brook University (1969–1971), Villanova University (1973–1992), the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1992–1994), and Cleveland State University (1996–2003). At Villanova, he led his 1984–85 team to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. Entering the 1985 NCAA Tournament as an eight seed, Villanova defeated their heavily favored Big East Conference foe, the Georgetown Hoyas, in the National Championship Game. The upset is widely regarded as one of the greatest in North American sports history.
Massimino has a master's degree equivalent in health and physical education from Rutgers University (1959) and a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Vermont (1956).
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Roman Gabriel
Roman Ildonzo Gabriel, Jr. (born August 5, 1940 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is a former American football player. The son of a Filipino immigrant, he was the first Asian-American to start as an NFL quarterback and is considered by many to have been one of the best players at that position during the late 1960s and early 70s.
Gabriel attended and played high school football at New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. He went on to star for the North Carolina State football team, and played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles.
A two-time All-American and two-time ACC Player of the Year (1960–61), Gabriel starred at quarterback for North Carolina State University in the early 1960s and finished his career holding virtually every Wolfpack passing record. An academic All-American, Gabriel saw his jersey retired and presented to him by North Carolina governor Terry Sanford on Jan. 20, 1962, at half-time of an NC State-Maryland basketball game in Reynolds Coliseum. As captain of his team, Gabriel set 22 school and nine conference football records. He threw for 2,961 yards and 19 touchdowns.
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Ron Jaworski
Ronald Vincent "Ron" Jaworski (born March 23, 1951, in Lackawanna, New York) is a former American football quarterback and currently an NFL analyst on ESPN. He is also CEO of Ron Jaworski Golf Management, Inc., based out of Blackwood, New Jersey, and manages golf courses in southern New Jersey, northeast Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. He also owns part interest in the Philadelphia Soul of the Arena Football League. Jaworski was nicknamed "Jaws" by Philadelphia 76ers player (and now coach) Doug Collins prior to the 1981 Super Bowl.
Jaworski was raised in the steel town of Lackawanna, New York. A three-sport star in high school, Jaworski turned down a professional baseball offer from the St Louis Cardinals to attend college at Youngstown State. Nicknamed "The Polish Rifle", or the "Polish Cannon", Jaworski was able to showcase his skills as a quarterback for the pass-oriented offense of the Penguins, earning a selection in the Senior Bowl.
Drafted in the second round of the 1973 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams, Jaworski was originally an overlooked 3rd string quarterback. Thanks to injuries to John Hadl and James Harris, Jaworski saw considerable playing time in 1975, leading the Rams to a playoff win. In 1976, he lost the starting quarterback job to Pat Haden.
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Ron Santo
Ronald Edward Santo (February 25, 1940 – December 3, 2010) was an American professional baseball player, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and long-time radio sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball from 1960 to 1974, most notably as the third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. A nine-time All-Star, he was a powerful hitter who was also a good defensive player, winning five Gold Glove Awards. Despite suffering from diabetes, he carefully concealed the condition for most of his career. The disease eventually necessitated the amputation of the lower half of both legs.
While Santo initially received little support for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, his standing among baseball enthusiasts and sabermetricians has gradually increased over time. On December 5, 2011, he was posthumously elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Golden Era Committee.
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Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993), nicknamed "Campy", was an American baseball player, primarily at the position of catcher, in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Widely considered to have been one of the greatest catchers in the history of the game, Campanella played for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1940s and 1950s, as one of the pioneers in breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball. His career was cut short in 1958 when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident.
Campanella's father John was the son of Sicilian immigrants. His mother Ida was African American. Therefore, he was barred from Major League Baseball before 1947, the season that black players were admitted to the Major Leagues for the first time since the 19th century. Campanella began playing Negro league baseball for the Washington Elite Giants in 1937, after dropping out of school on his sixteenth birthday. The Elite Giants would move to Baltimore the following year, and Campanella would go on to become a star player with the team.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Ryan Joseph Fitzpatrick (born November 24, 1982) is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Harvard.
Fitzpatrick was a three-sport (football, basketball and track) athlete at Highland High School in Gilbert, Arizona. Fitzpatrick was a Second-team Class 5A All-state selection, adding Arizona High School All-Star team, Fiesta Region first team and Fiesta Region MVP honors as a senior. He set 12 school records as a Highland Hawk and one state mark (throwing a 99-yard touchdown pass) while leading the team to the state playoffs from 1998–2000 and to the 1999 Fiesta Region title.[citation needed]
At Harvard, Fitzpatrick had five starts during the 2001 and 2002 seasons. In 2001, he completed 25 of 37 passes (67.6 percent) for 323 yards and a pair of touchdowns and followed that in 2002 by completing 94 of 150 attempts (62.7 percent) for 1,155 yards, eight touchdowns and no interceptions. He also ran for five scores and 523 yards on 115 carries (4.5 avg.) that year.
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Sal Bando
Salvatore Leonard Bando (born February 13, 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former third baseman and executive in professional baseball who played for the Kansas City & Oakland Athletics (1966–76) and Milwaukee Brewers (1977–81). He batted and threw right-handed. He played college baseball at Arizona State for legendary coach Bobby Winkles.
During the A's championship years of 1971-75, he captained the team and led the club in runs batted in three times. He was the second American League third baseman to hit 200 career home runs, joining Brooks Robinson, and retired among the all-time leaders in games (5th, 1896), assists (6th, 3720) and double plays (7th, 345) at his position. In a 16-season career, Bando was a .254 hitter with 242 home runs and 1039 RBI in 2019 games played. His brother Chris was a catcher for the Cleveland Indians.
Over four consecutive American League Championship Series from 1971–74, he hit five home runs in 17 games, including two in a 1973 game and a solo shot in Game 3 of the 1974 ALCS, a 1-0 victory.
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Sal Maglie
Salvatore Anthony Maglie (April 26, 1917 – December 28, 1992) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played from 1945 to 1958 for the New York Giants, Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals. Maglie was known as "Sal the Barber", because he gave close shaves—that is, pitched inside to hitters. Coincidentally, he also sported a five o'clock shadow look. He also had the distinction of being one of the few players to play for all three New York City baseball teams. During a 10-year baseball career, Maglie compiled 119 wins, 862 strikeouts, and an 3.15 earned run average.
Maglie broke into the major leagues with the Giants in 1945, but jumped to the Mexican League prior to the 1946 season. For this, Maglie was banned from organized baseball by Commissioner Happy Chandler, and Maglie was unable to return to the Giants until 1950. The ban had been lifted in 1949, but Maglie chose to remain with the Drummondville Cubs, with whom he was playing at the time, and for whom he was making more money than he did with the Giants.
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Sam Bradford
Samuel Jacob Bradford (born November 8, 1987) is an American football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was the first overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, after playing college football for the University of Oklahoma. In 2008, as a redshirt sophomore, Bradford became the second sophomore to win a Heisman Trophy. He also holds the NCAA record for most touchdown passes by a freshman quarterback, with 36.
In his first season in the NFL, Bradford set the record for most completions by a rookie in NFL history, which helped earn him the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award.
Bradford was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He attended Putnam City North High School in Oklahoma City, where he starred in football, basketball and golf. As a senior quarterback for his high school football team in 2006, he threw for 2,029 yards and 17 touchdowns in 12 games. His senior year in basketball, he averaged a double-double.
Bradford was a three-star recruit not that highly ranked among the high school class of 2006, with his highest ranking being No. 12 among only pro-style quarterbacks by recruiting source Rivals.com, behind Pat Devlin, Juice Williams, Josh Freeman, and being overshadowed by the likes of five-star recruits Mitch Mustain, Matthew Stafford and Tim Tebow.
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Sam Etcheverry
Sam "The Rifle" Etcheverry (May 20, 1930 – August 29, 2009) was a professional American and Canadian football player and head coach. Etcheverry played the quarterback position, most famously with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, and was named Canadian football's Most Outstanding Player in 1954. Etcheverry's jersey #92 is one of seven retired by the Alouettes.
Etcheverry is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, and in 2006, was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players (#26) of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.
Etcheverry was the son of Basque sheep farmers who emigrated to New Mexico. Known as "The Rifle", Etcheverry played for the University of Denver from 1949 to 1951 where he still holds most of the Pioneers' football records for passing offense.
In 1952, Etcheverry joined the Montreal Alouettes of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (which became part of the Canadian Football League in 1958 and was renamed the Eastern Football Conference in 1960). As his team's quarterback, he was twice voted "Most Outstanding Player" of the eastern pro circuit and was named an eastern all-star six times (1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960). In 1954, Etcheverry was awarded the Schenley Award (most outstanding player in the Canadian Rugby Union).
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Sam Keller
Samuel Michael Keller (born September 28, 1984 in Danville, California) is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was signed by the Los Angeles Avengers as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Arizona State and Nebraska.
Keller has also been a member of the Oakland Raiders.
Keller attended San Ramon Valley High School in Danville, California and was a student and a letterman in football and basketball. In football, Keller was a three-year starter, twice named his team's Offensive M.V.P., was a two-time first team All-East Bay League selection, and was a two-time second team All-Contra Costa Times selection. He finished his senior season with 3,282 passing yards and 38 touchdowns. After his senior football season, Keller was invited to the California/Florida High School All-Star Football Game. In basketball, he was a four-year starter. Sam Keller graduated from San Ramon Valley High School in 2003.
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Sammy Angott
Sammy Angott (January 17, 1915 – October 22, 1980) was born Samuel Engotti in Pennsylvania. He was known as a clever boxer who liked to follow up a clean punch by grabbing his opponent, causing him to be known as "The Clutch."
On May 3, 1940, the 5-8 fighter gained recognition from the National Boxing Association (NBA) as its world lightweight champion when he outpointed Davey Day over 15 rounds. In 1941 Angott outpointed Lew Jenkins, who was recognized as the world title holder, to become the undisputed lightweight king. He defended the title only once, a 15-round points win over Allie Stolz in May 1942.
Angott, retired but returned to defeat the reigning world featherweight king, Willie Pep in a non-title bout. Eventually he regained the NBA lightweight crown by outpointing Slugger White in 15 rounds. He lost the title for good to Juan Zurita on March 8, 1944.
In his career, Angott met the best fighters in the welterweight and lightweight divisions. He fought Sugar Ray Robinson, Bob Montgomery, Beau Jack, Fritzie Zivic, Henry Armstrong, Redtop Davis, Sonny Boy West, and Ike Williams.
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Sammy Mandell
Sammy Mandell (b. February 5, 1904 in Rockford, Illinois, d. November 7, 1967 in Oak Park, Illinois) was a former world lightweight boxing champion. Born Samuel Mandella, he was known as the "Rockford Sheik", due to his Rudolph Valentino like good looks.
Mandell developed his fighting skills at the Camp Grant barracks in Illinois. He was too young and underweight to join the army, weighing 105 lbs. Despite this his persistance in hanging around the wrestling and boxing training areas saw him gain permission to join in with the military personnel. The camp boxing instructor at the time was Fred Dyer, "The Singing Boxer", who recalled in a 1926 interview how Mandell beat every soldier in the bantam weight class an was able to best men 10 lbs heavier then him. Dyer also stated that he advised Mandell to turn professional.
Trained by the legendary Jack Blackburn, Mandell was an outstanding, clever fighter who carried a solid punch, fast hands and superb defensive skills. He won the championship when he outpointed Rocky Kansas on July 3, 1926. He successfully defended his crown against hall of famers and future champions Tony Canzoneri and Jimmy McLarnin. In a startling upset, Mandell lost the crown when he was KOed by Al Singer in the first round.
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Sandy Stephens
Sanford Emory Stephens II (September 21, 1940 - June 6, 2000) was an African-American football player and civic leader. Stephens was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area city of Uniontown, Pennsylvania and is best known for his career as a college football quarterback at the University of Minnesota. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Stephens was the first black man to play quarterback at the University of Minnesota and remains the only quarterback to take the Gophers to the Rose Bowl (1961 and 1962). In 1960, along with Uniontown (PA) High School teammate Bill Munsey, he led the University of Minnesota to an 8-1 regular season record and the national championship. Stephens became the first African-American major-college All-American quarterback and finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy balloting. In 1961, Stephens received the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Most Valuable Player of the Big Ten Conference.
Sandy Stephens is a member of The Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C. National Intercollegiate All-American Football Players Honor Roll.
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Scott Covington
Scott Covington (born January 17, 1976 in Fresno, California) is a former college and professional American football quarterback. He played 5 seasons in the NFL for the Bengals and Rams, and 1 in the CFL for the Argonauts.
He played in college for the University of Miami Hurricanes, and was their starting quarterback in 1997 after Ryan Clement suffered an injury in the middle of the season. Covington had an average college career, mostly serving as a backup for Clement. He did not earn a chance to start until his Senior year in 1998, helping the Hurricanes to a 9-3 record, including a season defining win against the then #3 UCLA Bruins, 49-45, in the final regular season game.
Covington was drafted in the 1999 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals, for whom he played with for three seasons. He spent the majority of those three seasons as the third string quarterback, behind the likes of Akili Smith and Scott Mitchell. He appeared in just 3 games, completing 4 of 5 passes for 23 yards and running the ball twice for -4 yards. In 2002, he joined the St. Louis Rams, where he played for two seasons. He played in just one game, but he also started it in place of an injured Kurt Warner. He completed 2 of 5 passes for 7 yards and was sacked twice before being replaced by Jamie Martin. He was released during the 2004 offseason.
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Scott Frost
Scott Andrew Frost (born January 4, 1975) is an American football coach. He played collegiately for Nebraska as a quarterback. He was drafted in the third round (67th pick) by the New York Jets and played six years in the National Football League as a defensive back with the New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Scott Frost started his college career at Stanford University. He attended Stanford for two years before transferring to Nebraska.
Frost started for Nebraska during the 1996 and 1997 seasons, going 11-2 and 13-0 respectively. In 1997, he was the starting quarterback for the final National Championship team for legendary coach Tom Osborne and was a finalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. He was also involved in an incident involving Nebraska's star running back Lawrence Phillips, in which Kate McEwen, Phillips' girlfriend and a member of the Nebraska women's basketball team, had been in Frost's room when Phillips broke in and assaulted McEwen. Phillips was later charged with domestic abuse.
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Shane Conlan
Shane Patrick Conlan (born March 4, 1964] is a former professional American football player. He played college football at Penn State University, where he won two national championships in 1982 and 1986, although he was red-shirted prior to the start of the 1982 season and did not play that season. In 1981, prior to his Penn State career and after his senior season at Frewsburg High School in which he played under head coach Thomas Sharp, Conlan was voted Western New York high school Player of the Year. During his career at Penn State, Conlan had 274 tackles, including a school-record 186 solos. He finished his football career as a three time all-pro with the NFL's Buffalo Bills and the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams.
Conlan was born in Frewsburg, New York.
Conlan capped his junior season at Penn State in the 1985 national championship game in the Orange Bowl against the University of Oklahoma. The finale to his senior year was in the 1986 national championship game versus the University of Miami in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, Conlan had eight tackles, two interceptions. Most memorably, he returned the second of his two interceptions 38 yards to the Miami 5-yard line to set up D.J. Dozier's game-winning touchdown. With Penn State's 14-10 victory, Conlan's squad completed an undefeated season, securing the 1986 national championship.
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Sonny Vaccaro
John Paul Vaccaro (born 23 September 1939 in Trafford, Pennsylvania) is an American former sports marketing executive.
Vaccaro is probably best known for his tenure with Nike, Inc., and signed Michael Jordan to his first sneaker deal. Vaccaro left Nike for Adidas, then Reebok. He founded the ABCD All America Camp, an elite showcase of high school basketball standouts, which ran from 1984 to 2007. It featured future stars Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Sebastian Telfair, and LeBron James. Vaccaro cofounded the first national high school All-Star game, The Dapper Dan Roundball Classic, with concert promoter and boyhood friend Pat DiCesare in Pittsburgh in 1965. The game endured for 43 years and its alumni includes such greats as Calvin Murphy, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Chris Webber, Alonzo Mourning, Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, Patrick Ewing, Rasheed Wallace and Stephon Marbury.
The Shame of College Sports in the Atlantic
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Sonny Wade
Jesse "Sonny" Wade born April 1, 1947 in Martinsville, Virginia, a graduate of (and All-American at) the "powerhouse" football program at Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League from 1969 to 1978.
Wade attended Martinsville High School where in 1994, he was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
After graduation he went on to Emory & Henry College where he participated in football, basketball and baseball. Wade was voted Virginia’s College Football Player of the Year in 1966, 67, and 68.
In 1967, Wade led the nation in scoring with 141 points. He set numerous Emory & Henry offensive records. In 1968, Wade quarterbacked Emory & Henry to a national record of 553.3 yards per game, was 2nd in the nation in total offense and passing and was voted 1st team Associated Press Little All-American Quarterback.
Wade was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, but joined the Alouettes in 1969 after they had suffered 9 straight losing seasons. Coached by former Alouettes great Sam Etcheverry and the famed Marv Levy, Wade became one of the best clutch players in Grey Cup history.
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Steve Bartkowski
Steven Joseph "Steve" Bartkowski (born November 12, 1952 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League who played for the Atlanta Falcons (1975–1985) and the Los Angeles Rams (1986). Bartkowski was a consensus All-American his senior season in 1974 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bartkowski was chosen with the first overall pick in the 1975 NFL Draft, ahead of Walter Payton, by the Atlanta Falcons and was the NFL Rookie of the Year as well as The Sporting News NFC Rookie of the Year in 1975. He was the first client of sports agent Leigh Steinberg.
Bartkowski is one of only nine quarterbacks in NFL history who have achieved consecutive 30-touchdown passing seasons (1980 & 1981) at least one time in their career. The others are Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Brett Favre, Dan Fouts, Jeff Garcia, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino and Y.A. Tittle. Bartkowski was selected to the Pro Bowl after both the 1980 and 1981 seasons and was selected 2nd Team All-NFC following the 1980 campaign. Bartkowski led the NFL in passing in 1983 with a passer rating of 97.6.
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Steve Bono
Steven Christopher Bono (pronounced /ˈboʊnoʊ/; born May 11, 1962 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League.
Bono attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where he received a degree in sociology. As a Bruins quarterback, Bono posted collegiate career numbers of 177 completions in 315 attempts. Bono also earned a varsity letter in baseball as the team's catcher.
Bono was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the 1985 NFL Draft.
In his first two seasons with the Vikings (1985-1986), Bono appeared in two games. He spent both seasons third on the depth chart behind starter Tommy Kramer and his backup Wade Wilson. At the end of the 1986 season, the Vikings placed Bono on waivers. He then signed as a free agent with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bono appeared in five games over two seasons with the Steelers (1987-1988). He made his first NFL start on October 4, 1987 against the Atlanta Falcons. After the 1988 season, the Steelers allowed Bono to become a free agent.
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Steven Jackson
Steven Rashad Jackson (born July 22, 1983) is an American football running back for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Rams 24th overall in the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon State University.
Jackson was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and was a running back for Eldorado High School. He was named the Sunrise Regional MVP and rushed for 6,396 yards and 81 touchdowns for the Sundevils. Jackson's Eldorado squad lost in the state final his senior year to Chris Carr (most recently of the Baltimore Ravens) and his perennial powerhouse McQueen High School (Reno, Nevada).
Jackson's subsequent success has been credited with prompting college football programs to take more interest in players in the Las Vegas area. This success also led to Jackson's induction into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
Jackson ended his Oregon State career after three seasons. In 36 games, he carried 743 times for 3,625 yards for a 4.9-yard average and 39 touchdowns while adding 680 yards and 6 touchdowns on 66 catches and 240 yards with a touchdown on 7 kickoff returns. His 4,545 all-purpose yards rank second in school history, while he ranks third on the school’s all-time scoring list with 276 points. As a junior he ranked tenth in the nation in rushing, ninth in all-purpose yardage, and fourth in scoring; he carried the ball 350 times for 1,545 yards and 19 touchdowns, adding 44 receptions for 470 yards and 3 touchdowns. His 2,015 all-purpose yards set a school record. As a sophomore Jackson led the Pac-10 Conference in rushing and finished the season eighth nationally with 1,690 yards, an average of 130 yards per game.
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Susan Notorangelo
Susan Notorangelo is an American long distance cyclist. She has ridden in the Race Across America five times, winning the competition in 1985 and 1989.
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Taylor Martinez
Taylor Martinez (born September 15, 1990) is an American football quarterback who plays for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Martinez played his senior year of high school football at Centennial High School in Corona, California, where he was a teammate of Vontaze Burfict. At Centennial, he passed for over 3,000 yards, including 28 touchdowns with a 61 percent pass completion. Taylor also rushed for 750 yards with 12 touchdowns. Not only did Martinez receive multiple awards for his performance but led Centennial to a state championship win and a perfect season (15-0).
Martinez committed to the University of Nebraska on August 22, 2008. Martinez wasn't heavily recruited by Football Bowl Subdivision schools as the only football scholarship offer he received was from Nebraska.
During the 2009 season, Martinez was redshirted.
After a heated three-way position battle, Martinez emerged over sophomore Cody Green and senior Zac Lee for the majority of the 2010 season as the University of Nebraska's starting quarterback. In October, Martinez was named as a semi-finalist for the Davey O'Brien Award. By early November, the Cornhusker signal caller had built up momentum off a 9-1 start where his offense had seven games of scoring 31 points or more.
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Ted Hendricks
Theodore (Ted) Paul Hendricks (born November 1, 1947) is a former American football linebacker who logged 15 seasons for the Baltimore Colts (1969–73), the Green Bay Packers (1974) and the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders (1975–83) in the National Football League. In 2007 he was named to the Florida High School Association All-Century Team which selected the Top 33 players in the 100 year history of high school football in the state of Florida's history. He was nicknamed "The Mad Stork" for his quirky personality and his tall, thin physique.
Hendricks played his college football at the University of Miami. He played stand-up defensive end for the University of Miami during the 1966 through 1968 seasons. The 6’7”, 220 pound Hendricks was a highly regarded defensive player in his day. He was a two-time All-American (1967 and 1968) and finished fifth in the 1968 Heisman Trophy voting. He was also a Second-team All-America selection in 1966.
Born to his Guatemalan mother in Guatemala City, Guatemala where his father was employed, Hendricks was raised throughout his early life in Miami Springs, Florida. He attended neighboring Hialeah High school because the Miami Springs Senior High School was not yet constructed. At Hialeah High he was a standout player for the T-breds. After high school graduation he attended the University of Miami where he was a physics major at UM and was well known for relaxing by doing math problems[citation needed].
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Terry Baker
For the Canadian football player of the same name see Terry Baker (Canadian football).
Terry Wayne Baker (born May 5, 1941) is a former quarterback for the Oregon State University football team. He played for them through the 1960-1962 seasons. He is most notable for winning the 1962 Heisman Trophy and playing the Final Four in the NCAA Basketball Tournament in the same school year. To date, he is the only person to have both won a Heisman Trophy and played in the Final Four.
Baker was born May 5, 1941 in Pine River, Minnesota. He attended Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon and was a standout three-sport athlete for the Democrats.
Baker was a three-year letterwinner in basketball, and led the Democrats to the Portland Interscholastic League city championship his senior year.
Baker was also a great baseball player. He earned a letter all four years of high school in baseball and led his team to the 1959 Oregon School Activities Association state championship.
Football, however, was Baker's most dominant sport. Baker played quarterback and tailback for the Democrats. In his junior and senior seasons, the Democrats were 23-0 and won two Oregon State Athletic Association state championships. As a senior, he threw for 1,261 yards and ran for 438 yards.
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Tom Barrasso
Thomas Patrick Barrasso (born March 31, 1965) is a retired American professional ice hockey goaltender who played 18 seasons for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Buffalo Sabres, Ottawa Senators, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs, and St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, and the only goaltender to ever play in the NHL directly from high school, without having played major junior, college, or some other form of professional hockey first. The youngest winner of the league's Vezina Trophy for best goaltender, as an 18-year old rookie in 1984, he was inducted as a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009.
He won successive Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992 with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and was an assistant coach and in charge of goaltending development for the Carolina Hurricanes for 5 years.
Barrasso grew up in the town of Stow, Massachusetts, playing ice hockey on an outdoor rink. He started playing goaltender at the age of five years old and by the time he was a teenager, was playing in net for Acton-Boxborough with fellow NHL players Bob Sweeney and Jeff Norton, Barrasso was considered one of the most promising American goaltending prospects of all time. He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres with the 5th overall pick in 1983. Skipping a college career, he went straight from high school to the NHL. At the time of his debut with the Sabres on October 5, 1983, less than six months after graduating from high school, Barrasso was the youngest goaltender to play and win a game in the NHL since Harry Lumley nearly forty years prior. He won the Calder Trophy and Vezina Trophy in his first season, becoming the third player to win both awards in the same year.
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Tom Flores
Thomas R. "Tom" Flores (born March 21, 1937) is a retired American football quarterback and coach. Flores and Mike Ditka are the only two people in the National Football League history to win a Championship (1 AFL Championship, Super Bowl XI as an Assistant Coach and Super Bowls XV and XVIII) as a player, as an assistant coach, and as a head coach. Flores was also the first Hispanic starting quarterback and the first minority head coach in professional football history to win a Super Bowl. Flores is currently a radio announcer.
Flores played quarterback for two seasons at Fresno City College beginning in 1955. He was active off the field as well serving on the Student Council as well as President of the Associated Men's Students. He received an academic scholarship to study at the College (now University) of the Pacific. Flores graduated from the University of the Pacific in 1958, but was unable to find a job in professional football. He was cut by the Calgary Stampeders of the CFL in 1958, and then by the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) in 1959. In 1960 Flores finally landed a position as a quarterback with the American Football League's Oakland Raiders, who began play in 1960 as a charter member of the league. He was named the Raiders' starting quarterback early in the 1960 season, becoming the first Hispanic starting quarterback in professional football history.
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Tom Osborne
Dr. Thomas William "Tom" Osborne (born February 23, 1937) is a former college football head coach and a former member of Congress. He is currently the athletic director at the University of Nebraska.
He was the head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team for 25 years from (1973 to 1997), succeeding Bob Devaney. After coaching, Osborne was elected to Congress in 2000 and served six years in the U.S. House as a Republican from Nebraska's 3rd district.
Born and raised in Hastings, Tom Osborne was a star athlete at Hastings High School in football and basketball, and won the state discus throw in track. As a senior in 1955, he was awarded the Nebraska High School Athlete of The Year by the Omaha World Herald. He then stayed in town to attend Hastings College, the same college his father and grandfather had attended. During his time at Hastings College, Tom Osborne was a star football quarterback and an excellent basketball player.[citation needed] He graduated with a B.A. in history in 1959, and was awarded the Nebraska College Athlete of the Year. He was the first male Nebraska athlete to win both the high school and college athlete of the year awards by the Omaha World Herald.[citation needed] Osborne was drafted into the NFL by the Washington Redskins, for whom he played two seasons as a wide receiver, before playing one season for the San Francisco 49ers.
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Tom Sorley
Tom K. Sorley of Big Spring, Texas is a former University of Nebraska Cornhusker quarterback. An All-State quarterback at Big Spring High School, Sorley quarterbacked the Huskers to a 27-9-1 record and wins in two bowl games.
Sorley began is college career in 1974 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during the tenure of head coach Tom Osborne. As quarterback Sorley was team captain and completed 57.2 percent of his passes (148-256) from 1976–1978, which is ninth on the Nebraska's all-time completion percentage list. Sorley holds seventh for Nebraska single-season passing yards (1,571) in 1978, and is thirteenth for NU career passing yards (2,230) during 1976-78. He quarterbacked the Huskers to a 27-9-1 record and wins in two bowl games. He graduated from the University of Nebraska with a degree in Business in 1979.
Passing: 174 attempts, 102 completions, 7 interceptions (.584) for 1,571 yards, 7 TDs.
NU Top NCAA Pass Rating (min. 15 att.):
9. Rating: 212.0, Tom Sorley, QB, vs. Kansas St., Oct. 14, 1978 (16-11-1/218/2)
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Tommie Frazier
Tommie James Frazier, Jr. (born July 16, 1974) is a former American college and professional football player who was an award-winning college quarterback for the University of Nebraska. Frazier is widely considered to be one of the best players in the history of college football; however, he was hampered by injuries for his entire career.
Frazier led his team to back-to-back consensus national championships in 1994 and 1995, and he remains the only quarterback to have done so since the 1950s. He was also named Most Valuable Player of three straight bowl games that decided the national championship. The 1995 Nebraska football team is considered to have been one of the most dominant in the history of American college football. In a 2006 ESPN.com poll, the results of which aired on SportsCenter, the 1995 Nebraska team was voted the best college football team of all time.
In 1999 Frazier was selected by Sports Illustrated as a back-up quarterback in their "NCAA Football All-Century Team." The starting quarterback was Sammy Baugh and the other back-ups were John Lujack, Roger Staubach and Doug Flutie. Frazier was one of six Nebraska Cornhuskers on this 85 man roster; the others being Johnny Rodgers, Rich Glover, Dave Rimington, Dean Steinkuhler and Aaron Taylor.
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Tommy Lasorda
Thomas Charles Lasorda (born September 22, 1927 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is a former Major League baseball player and manager. 2009 marked his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest non-continuous (he played one season with the Kansas City Athletics) tenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by a single season. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.
He was played by actor Arthur J. Nascarella in the ESPN mini-series The Bronx is Burning.
Tommy Lasorda signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an undrafted free agent in 1945 and began his professional career with the Concord Weavers in 1945. He then missed the 1946 & 1947 seasons because of a stint in the United States Army. He served on active duty from October 1945 until spring 1947.
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Tony Canadeo
Anthony Robert "Tony" Canadeo (May 5, 1919 – November 29, 2003) was a professional football player, a halfback and quarterback for the NFL's Green Bay Packers from 1941 to 1944 and 1946 to 1952, having missed the 1945 season while serving in the United States Army during World War II.
Born and raised in Chicago, Tony Canadeo attended Charles P. Steinmetz Academic Centre, formerly known as Steinmetz High School, a public four-year high school located in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is a part of the Chicago Public Schools District 299. It is named for the handicapped German-American mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923).
Canadeo played college football at Gonzaga University in Spokane, where he was first known as the "Gray Ghost of Gonzaga ," due to his prematurely graying hair. He was selected by the Packers in the ninth round (77th overall) of the 1941 NFL Draft. He joined the army in 1945, but returned in 1946 and became Green Bay's primary ball carrier. He was the first Packer to rush for 1000 yards in a season and the third player ever in the NFL to accomplish this feat. Canadeo rushed for 1052 yards in 1949, as the Packers struggled to a 2-10 record. In addition to his accomplishments as a running back, Canadeo also recorded nine career interceptions on defense and served as the team's punter.
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Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri (November 6, 1908 – December 9, 1959 in Slidell, Louisiana) was an American professional boxer. Canzoneri was a three time world champion and held a total of five world titles.
Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in three or more divisions.
When he was a teenager, he and his family moved to Staten Island, New York, where he campaigned most of his career. Canzoneri fit the mold of the typical American boxer of the era: He could box up to three or four times in one month and up to 24 or 25 times in one year and he would seldom fight outside New York City, considered to be boxing's mecca at the time. As a matter of a fact, of his first 38 bouts, only one was fought west of New York City and that one was in New Jersey.
Canzoneri won his first title, the World Featherweight title, with a 15 round decision over Benny Bass on February 10, 1928. He retained that title one time and then went up in weight and challenged World Lightweight Champion Sammy Mandell, losing by a decision in ten rounds. But in 1930, Mandell was knocked out in the first round by Al Singer and lost his title and Canzoneri, who had already beaten Singer by a ten round decision before, challenged Singer for the title on November 14, 1930, knocking him out in the first round to become a two division world champion. In defeat, Singer made history by becoming the first man, and only man up until now, to both win and lose the title by knockout in the first round.
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Tony Conigliaro
Anthony Richard Conigliaro (January 7, 1945 – February 24, 1990), nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was a Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox (1964–67, 1969–1970, 1975) and California Angels (1971). He was born in Revere, Massachusetts, and was a 1962 graduate of St. Mary's High School (Lynn, Massachusetts). During the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season of 1967, he was hit in the face by a pitch, causing a severe eye injury and derailing his career. Though he would make a dramatic comeback from the injury, his career was not the same afterwards.
Conigliaro was signed by the Red Sox in 1962, at the age of 17. In 1963, he batted .363 with 24 home runs in the New York - Penn League and was subsequently called up to the majors.
During his 1964 rookie season, Conigliaro batted .290 with 24 home runs and 52 RBI in 111 games, but broke his arm and his toes in August.
In his sophomore season in 1965, Conigliaro led the league in home runs (32), becoming the youngest home run champion in American League history. He was selected for the All-Star Game in 1967. In that season, at age 22, he reached a career total of 100 home runs.
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Tony Cuccinello
Anthony Francis 'Tony' Cuccinello (November 8, 1907 – September 21, 1995) was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1930 through 1945 for the Cincinnati Reds (1930–31), Brooklyn Dodgers (1933–35), Boston Bees/Braves (1936–40, 1941–43), New York Giants (1940) and Chicago White Sox (1943–45). Cuccinelo batted and threw right-handed. He was the older brother of Al Cuccinello and uncle of Sam Mele. His surname was pronounced "coo-chi-NELL-oh".
A native of Long Island City, New York, Cuccinello led the National League second basemen in assists and double plays three times and hit .300 or better five times, with a career high .315 in 1931. A three-time All-Star, he was selected to the first All-Star Game, played on July 6, 1933 at Comiskey Park, appearing as a pinch-hitter for Carl Hubbell. He also played in the 1938 and 1945 Games.
During the 1945 season, Cuccinello hit .308 for the Chicago White Sox, and just missed winning the American League batting title, one point behind Snuffy Stirnweiss' .309. Nevertheless, he was released in the offseason.
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Tony DeMarco
Tony DeMarco (born January 14, 1932) is a former boxer and World Welterweight champion. He was born in Boston and grew up in that city's North End community. Tony DeMarco's actual birth name is Leonardo Liotta. Tony’s father Vincent and mother Giacomina (Jacqueline) came from Sicily.
To box in the league, the minimum age was 18. Liotta had to use the birth certificate of Tony DeMarco so that he could compete. DeMarco had his first professional fight when he was sixteen years old. On October 21, 1948, he knocked out Mestor Jones in one round.
DeMarco fought the top fighters in his division during the 1950s and defeated top contenders and champions like Paddy DeMarco, Teddy "Red Top" Davis, Chico Vejar and Don Jordan. The highlight of his career came on April 1, 1955, when he scored a technical knock out (TKO) over Johnny Saxton in the 14th round of their title bout to capture the world’s welterweight title.
Tony DeMarco, despite winning many bouts to become champion, is best remembered for his two championship matches with hall of famer Carmen Basilio in 1955. Both fights were toe to toe slugfests with several ebbs and flows that kept the fans at the edges of their seats. Both fights ended in the 12th round with DeMarco suffering a TKO. In their first bout, DeMarco was the defending champion. He risked his title by taking on Basilio, who was the top ranked contender. Although Basilio prevailed, the fight was so exciting that the pair were rematched. The second fight was almost a carbon copy of the first with Basilio wearing down DeMarco, but not before a wicked DeMarco left hook had Basilio out on his feet. DeMarco was unable to capitalize on this advantage and lost the match on a 12 round TKO.
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Tony Esposito
For the Italian musician, please see Tony Esposito (musician).
Anthony James "Tony O" Esposito (born April 23, 1943) is a retired Canadian-American professional ice hockey goaltender, who played in the National Hockey League, most notably for the Chicago Black Hawks. He was one of the pioneers of the now popular butterfly style. Tony is the younger brother of Phil Esposito, a centre. Both brothers had notable careers and are enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Esposito grew up Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario with his brother, fellow future NHL star Phil Esposito. He played college hockey for Michigan Tech.
A three-year hockey letter winner, Esposito was a three-time first-team All-America selection. He was a driving force in helping the Huskies to the 1964–65 NCAA Championship and was named a first-team NCAA All-Tournament Team choice in 1965. Still currently the MTU career leader in goals against average (2.55) and second in career saved percentage (.912), Esposito was also a three-time All-WCHA first-team selection.
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Tony La Russa
Anthony "Tony" La Russa, Jr. ( /ləˈruːsə/; born October 4, 1944) is a former Major League Baseball manager and infielder, best known for his tenures as manager of the Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, and St. Louis Cardinals. La Russa managed teams to six league championships and three World Series titles, and ranks third in all-time major league wins by a manager, behind Connie Mack and John McGraw.
As a player, La Russa made his major league debut with the Kansas City Athletics in 1963. After a shoulder injury the following off-season, he spent most of his career in the minor leagues. He spent parts of five other seasons in the major leagues, playing for the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago Cubs. His final big-league appearance came in 1973 with the Cubs, but he continued to play in the minor leagues until 1977. Following the end of his playing career, he earned a Juris Doctor degree from Florida State University College of Law.
La Russa was named manager of the White Sox in the middle of the 1979 season. In 1983 he led the White Sox to an American League West division title; however, the White Sox fired him during the 1986 season. Less than three weeks later, La Russa was hired to manage the Athletics, and led the team to three American League championships and the 1989 World Series title. He left Oakland following the 1995 season to manage the Cardinals, and led the team to three National League championships and the 2006 and 2011 World Series titles. On October 31, 2011, he announced his retirement three days after winning the 2011 title and after 33 seasons as a major league manager.
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Tony Lazzeri
Anthony Michael "Tony" Lazzeri (December 6, 1903 – August 6, 1946) was an American Major League Baseball player during the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly with the New York Yankees. He was part of the famed "Murderers' Row" Yankee batting lineup of the late 1920s (most notably the legendary 1927 team), along with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Bob Meusel. The native of San Francisco, California, was a member of the original American League All-Star team in 1933. He was nicknamed "Poosh 'Em Up" by Italian-speaking fans, from a mistranslation of an Italian phrase meaning to "hit it out" (hit a home run).
Lazzeri is one of only 14 major league baseball players to hit for the natural cycle (hitting a single, double, triple and home run in sequence) and the only player to complete a natural cycle with a grand slam.
Lazzeri, a second baseman, first gained notice in the Pacific Coast League as a member of the Salt Lake City Bees, where he slugged 60 home runs and had 222 RBI in 1925.
He entered the major leagues in 1926 as a member of the New York Yankees. In his rookie season, he hit 18 homers and had 114 RBI. As a member of the Yankees through 1937, he averaged 79 runs, 14 home runs, 96 RBI and 12 stolen bases, including seven seasons with over 100 RBI and five seasons batting .300 or higher (including a high of .354 in 1929). During this period, the Yankees won six American League pennants (1926, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1937) and five World Series championships (1927, 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1937).
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Torry Holt
Torrance "Torry" Jabar Holt (born June 5, 1976) is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. He was named to the Pro Bowl seven times and retired with the 10th most receiving yards in NFL history, including a record six consecutive seasons with 1,300 yards. He played college football at North Carolina State University, and earned All-American honors. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft, and spent the next ten years with the Rams and is remembered as one of the members of the "Greatest Show on Turf." He currently works as an analyst for the NFL Network.
Holt was born in Gibsonville, North Carolina. He was Prep Football Report All-America selection, adding all-state honors at Eastern Guilford High School in Gibsonville. While there he caught 129 passes during his career, gaining 2,573 yards and scoring 42 touchdowns including 56 receptions for 983 yards and 17 touchdowns as senior. He also returned three punts and three kickoffs for touchdowns during his career. Additionally, Holt was a standout defensive back who posted 62 tackles and four interceptions as senior. He was named one of the Top 25 players in the state by the Charlotte Observer. After High School Holt attended Hargrave Military Academy in 1994. There he caught 21 passes for 524 yards and six touchdowns. Torry also made an appearance with at the time St. Louis Rams teammate Marshall Faulk in Nelly's Air Force Ones Music Video.
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Tracy Ham
Tracy Ham (born January 5, 1965 in Gainesville, Florida) is a retired Canadian Football League quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos, Toronto Argonauts, Baltimore Stallions, and the Montreal Alouettes. He was known for his abilities as a dual threat quarterback. In his college career with Georgia Southern he became the first quarterback to rush for 3,000 yards and pass for 5,000 yards in a career.
After his college days he signed with the Edmonton Eskimos in 1987 serving as the third string quarterback behind Matt Dunigan and Damon Allen and was a member of their Grey Cup winning team that season. With the departure of Dunigan to the BC Lions and injuries to Allen, Ham established himself the their new starting quarterback. He passed for 2840 yards and ran for another 628. In 1989 he won the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award in leading the Eskimos to a 16-2 record, throwing for 4366 yards on 268 completions out of 517 attempts with 30 touchdowns to 18 interceptions. Plus Ham became the first CFL passer to rush for over 1000 yards with 1005 on 125 carries and with 10 touchdowns. Unfortunately for the Eskimos they lost the division final to the 9-9 Saskatchewan Roughriders, who went on to win the Grey Cup.
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Trent Edwards
Trent Edwards (born October 30, 1983) is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Stanford.
He has also been a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Oakland Raiders.
Edwards was a highly-rated recruit from Los Gatos High School and was ranked as the #1 pro-style quarterback by USA Today in 2001.Rivals.com rated Edwards as the #2 pro-style quarterback and #20 player overall in its rankings. He was recruited by Michigan, Florida, Notre Dame and Tennessee, but ultimately chose Stanford. In his junior and senior seasons at Los Gatos, he led the team to two undefeated seasons and back-to-back Central Coast Section Division III championships with a combined record of 26-0. In his senior year, he completed 154 of 213 passes for 2,535 yards, 29 touchdowns, three interceptions, and was named as a National Football Foundation Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete for Santa Clara County.
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Trent Green
Trent Jason Green (born July 9, 1970) is a retired professional American football quarterback. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the eighth round of the 1993 NFL Draft. He played college football at Indiana University.
Green played for the BC Lions, Washington Redskins, St. Louis Rams, Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Rams and was selected to two Pro Bowls with the Chiefs.
He is currently a color commentator for NFL on Fox, as well as an analyst on NFL Network's signature show, NFL Total Access.
Green grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended St. John Vianney High School in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.
Green played college football for the Indiana University Hoosiers. In 1991 Indiana played in the Copper Bowl and dominated a highly-regarded Baylor team 24-0. Led by Green, it was one of the most impressive performances by any team during the 1991 bowl season. Indiana finished the 1993 season with an 8-4 record, with two of its three regular season losses by seven points or less. The team went on to play in the 1993 Independence Bowl. During Green's four year career he threw for 5,400 yards with 23 touchdowns and 32 interceptions. He graduated with a degree in business.
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Turner Gill
Turner Hillery Gill (born August 13, 1962) is currently the head football coach at Liberty. Gill's previous coaching job was as the head coach at University of Kansas from 2010-2011, and was one of 11 African-American head coaches in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision at the time of his hiring.
Gill graduated from Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, Texas where he was an all-state, all-county and all-district quarterback for Coach Merlin Priddy. During his senior season, Gill was courted heavily by Nebraska, as well as arch-rival Oklahoma, and Texas. Nebraska won the spirited battle for Gill, in part because they would allow Turner to play baseball as well as football, but also because head coach Tom Osborne had managed to quell any rumors about Nebraska supposedly being reluctant to play an African-American at quarterback.
Gill arrived on campus in 1980 and saw limited action in mop-up duty as a freshman, which at the time was still relatively unusual, as freshmen had only been recently allowed under NCAA rules to participate at the varsity level.
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Verne Lewellen
Verne Lewellen (born September 29, 1901 - April 16, 1980) was an American football player. He played most of his nine year career with the Green Bay Packers and was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1970. He also was the Packers' General Manager from 1954 through 1957. He was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1967.
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Vic Raschi
Victor John Angelo "Vic" Raschi (March 28, 1919 – October 14, 1988) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He was responsible for allowing Hank Aaron's first career home run.
He was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts and went on to graduate from the College of William and Mary.
His debut on the New York Yankees was September 23, 1946, wearing uniform number 12. The next year he wore three different numbers (17, 19, and 43) but number 17 became his from then on during his Yankee career. He was one of the top pitchers for the Yankees in the late 1940s and early 1950s, forming (with Allie Reynolds, and Eddie Lopat) the "Big Three" of the Yankees' pitching staff. From 1946 to 1953, Raschi won 120 games while losing 50. He led the American League in won/lost percentage with a .724 record in 1950, and in strikeouts with 164 in 1951. And he was a better hitter than most pitchers, with a .184 career batting average, and had 7 runs batted in (RBI) in one game, an American League record for pitchers, on August 3, 1953. But on February 24, 1954, Yankee fans were surprised to see him traded to the St. Louis Cardinals. Apparently the Yankees' management knew what they had done, because in the remaining two years of his career, with the Cardinals and Kansas City Athletics (who signed him as a free agent on April 28, 1955 when the Cardinals released him), Raschi won only 12 games while losing 16.
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Vince DiMaggio
Vincent Paul "Vince" DiMaggio (September 6, 1912 – October 3, 1986) was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. During a 10-year baseball career, he played for the Boston Bees (1937–1938), Cincinnati Reds (1939–1940), Pittsburgh Pirates (1940–1945), Philadelphia Phillies (1945–1946), and New York Giants (now San Francisco Giants) (1946). Vince was the older brother of Joe and Dom DiMaggio.
DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California. Older than Joe and Dom, Vince was discovered first, and the teenage Joe used to enviously watch him play professional ball. Blessed with some power and good fielding, Vince once claimed that he could run rings around Joe in the outfield. However, the stats showed that most (but not all) years, Joe was the better outfielder in the majors. Still, Vince's range in the outfield was excellent.
DiMaggio began his professional career in 1932 with the Tucson Lizards of the Class-D Arizona-Texas League, hitting .347 with 25 homers and 81 RBI. He led the Arizona-Texas League in home runs, with eight more than runner-up Cal Lahman. He played 94 games with the Lizards that year, finishing the season with the San Francisco Seals of the Class-AA Pacific Coast League. With the Seals, he hit .270 with 6 home runs in 59 games.
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Vince Ferragamo
Vince Anthony Ferragamo (born April 24, 1954) is a former professional football player, a quarterback in the National Football League and Canadian Football League.
Born in Torrance, California, Ferragamo was heavily recruited as an All-American high school quarterback from Phineas Banning High School in Wilmington, where he was the L.A. City Schools MVP. Ferragamo accepted a football scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley. Buried on the quarterback depth chart behind Cal teammate Steve Bartkowski, Ferragamo transferred to top-ranked Nebraska in 1974. As a Cornhusker, he lettered in 1975 and 1976; during his senior season he was All-Big 8 and All-American, and also an Academic All-American. Ferragamo capped off his college career by leading the Huskers to a victory over Texas Tech in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl in the Houston Astrodome.
He played for the Los Angeles Rams (1977–1980 and 1982–1984), Buffalo Bills (1985) and Green Bay Packers (1985–1986). After leading the 9-7 Rams to road victories over the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1979 NFL Playoffs, Ferragamo started for the Rams in Super Bowl XIV, in which the Rams led after three quarters of play before falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-19.
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Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight league championships and five in seven years, including winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons. The National Football League's Super Bowl trophy is named in his honor. He was enshrined in the NFL's Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
He played football at St. Francis Preparatory School, and later Fordham University. He began coaching as an assistant and later as a head coach at St. Cecilia High School. He would later become an assistant coach at Fordham University, the U.S. Military Academy, and the New York Giants before becoming a head coach for the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967 and the Washington Redskins in 1969. He never had a losing season as a head coach in the NFL, compiling an impressive regular season winning percentage of 73.8% and 90% in the postseason.
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Vince Naimoli
Vincent J. Naimoli (b. 16 September 1937 in Paterson, New Jersey ) is a businessman, and the first owner of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Naimoli's father was an Italian immigrant who worked for the New York City Subway system and became a self-taught stationary engineer. Naimoli attended the University of Notre Dame, graduating in 1959 and earning a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1962. Naimoli received his Masters of Business Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1964, and completed Harvard University Business School’s advanced management program in 1974. [3]
Naimoli still attends Irish athletic events regularly. Naimoli has three daughters from his first marriage and one daughter from his second marriage.
Naimoli is currently a member of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Board of Trustees. On Wednesday, October 5, 2011 the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex on the Metropolitan Campus of Fairliegh Dickson University was dedicated. This “Field of Dreams” became a reality thanks to the generosity of Mr. Naimoli.
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Warren Rabb
S. Warren Rabb (born December 12, 1937 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football quarterback who played for the Detroit Lions of the NFL and the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League. He was selected in the second round of the 1960 NFL Draft out of Louisiana State University. He completed his professional football career with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League in 1963.
He was the quarterback of the national championship winning 1958 LSU Tigers football team.
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Will Witherspoon
William "Will" Cordell Witherspoon (born August 19, 1980 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American football linebacker for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Georgia.
Witherspoon has also played for the St. Louis Rams and Philadelphia Eagles.
Witherspoon's father served in the US Air Force, and so Witherspoon moved around as a child. However, his family never lived on the military bases, instead deciding to live in the community so the children could experience the culture. In addition to speaking English, he knows how to speak German, and is learning both Arabic and Swedish. He attended Good Shepherd Lutheran School in middle school. He played running back for Rutherford High School in Panama City, Florida, but switched to linebacker before his senior year. He was chosen as the USA Today Florida Player of the Year for his efforts as a senior, where he posted 112 tackles, 3 sacks, and three interceptions.
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Willie Mosconi
William Joseph Mosconi ( /mɒsˈkoʊni/; June 27, 1913 – September 17, 1993), best known as Willie Mosconi, was an American professional pool (pocket billiards) player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship an unmatched fifteen times. For most of the 20th century, his name was essentially synonymous with pool in North America – he was nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards" – and he was among the first Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame inductees. Mosconi pioneered and regularly employed numerous trick shots, set many records, and helped to popularize pool as a national recreation activity.
During the 1940s and 1950s, the pocket billiards game most often played in competition was called straight pool, or 14.1 continuous, a form of pool considered by most top players to be more difficult than today's fast tournament game nine-ball. Mosconi still holds the officially recognized straight pool high run world record of 526 consecutive balls (see below for more details).
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Willie Pep
Guglielmo Papaleo (September 19, 1922 – November 23, 2006) was an American professional boxer, better known as Willie Pep. Pep boxed a total of 1956 rounds in the 241 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of rounds and fights even for a fighter of his era. His final record was 229-11-1 with 65 knockouts. Pep, known for his speed and finesse, is considered to be one of the best fighters of the 20th century and was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. Pep was voted as the #1 featherweight of the 20th Century by the Associated Press and ranked the #1 featherweight of all-time by the International Boxing Research Organization in 2005.
Pep first fought as an amateur in 1937. At the time, amateur boxers from Connecticut were allowed to fight for money. It was during the Great Depression hit and Pep's father was earning $15 per week at the Works Progress Administration. Willie was soon earning more in one night of fighting each week. When his parents found out he was boxing, his mother was worried for him, but his father said that if he was making so much fighting on Fridays, maybe he should see about fighting on Tuesdays as well. "My old man, he was a sports fan" Pep later quipped.
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Willie Totten
Willie "Satellite" Totten (born July 4, 1962) is the former head coach of the Mississippi Valley State University Delta Devils football team, a job he held from 2002 to 2009. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
On December 1, 2009, Totten quit as college football head coach of the Mississippi Valley State University Delta Devils located in Itta Bena, Mississippi. His overall record at the school was 31-57.
He is one of a few coaches ever to coach in a stadium named after them. His teams played in Rice-Totten Field, named for him and legendary NFL wide receiver Jerry Rice. Totten was Rice's quarterback at MVSU, and with Rice as his target, Totten set more than 50 Division I-AA passing records. His team scored 59 points a game, and in one year he threw for a record 58 touchdowns. Totten played professionally in the CFL with the BC Lions (1986) and Toronto Argonauts (1987) before moving on to the NFL, as a replacement player for the Buffalo Bills during the strike-shortened 1987 NFL season. In two games as a strikebreaker, Totten completed 13 of 33 passes for 155 yards and two touchdowns. He also fumbled nine times and accounted for eight turnovers in a pair of Bills losses.
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Yogi Berra
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925) is a former American Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder, and manager. He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career (1946–1965) for the New York Yankees. Berra was one of only four players to be named the Most Valuable Player of the American League three times and is one of only six managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World Series. As a player, coach, or manager, Berra appeared in 21 World Series. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
Berra is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history. According to the win shares formula developed by sabermetrician Bill James, Berra is the greatest catcher of all time and the 52nd greatest non-pitching player in major-league history.
Berra, who quit school after the eighth grade, has a tendency toward malapropism and fracturing the English language. "It ain't over till it's over" is arguably his most famous example, often quoted. Simultaneously denying and confirming his reputation, Berra once stated, "I really didn't say everything I said."
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Young Corbett III
Young Corbett III, born Raffaele Giordano (May 27, 1905 - July 15, 1993) was an italian-american boxer. He was the world Welterweight boxing champion in 1933 and the Middleweight champion in 1938. Cliff Rold of BoxingScene ranked him 24th in his Top 25 Welterweights of All-Time. Scott Levinson of Proboxing-fans ranked him 3rd in his Top 5 Best Italian Boxers.
Born in Rionero in Vulture (Basilicata), from Vito Giordano and Gelsomina Capobianco, he moved with his family in the United States when he was still an infant and was registered as Raffaele Capabianca Giordano. They lived in Pittsburgh and then in Fresno (California). He began boxing in 1919 as "Ralph Giordano" (later changed in "Young Corbett III") while still a 14-year-old "newsboy."
A tough southpaw, Corbett fought many great fighters of his era. For example, he engaged in a four-fight series with future welterweight champion Young Jack Thompson, winning three and drawing once. He also scored wins over Jack Zivic, Sgt. Sammy Baker, and welterweight champion Jackie Fields and future middleweight king Ceferino Garcia.
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Zac Lee
Zac Lee (born April 26, 1987) is an American football quarterback. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Nebraska.
Lee was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent following the end of the NFL lockout in 2011. He was cut one week later. He was then signed by the Las Vegas Locomotives.
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Zac Taylor
Zac Taylor (born May 10, 1983) in an American football assistant coach and former quarterback. He is currently the assistant quarterbacks coach for the Miami Dolphins. From 2005 to 2006, he was the starting quarterback for Cornhuskers football team at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was recruited late in the 2004-2005 off-season by the Huskers, being a described "lucky break" due to the Huskers lack of quarterbacks at the time. He led Nebraska to an 8-4 record during his inaugural year, 2005, as a starter at quarterback. Ironically, Taylor hails from Norman, Oklahoma, hometown of the rival University of Oklahoma Sooners. He signed with the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 2007. Taylor was later cut from the team's 85 man roster and has since joined the Canadian Football League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers as their 4th quarterback. The Blue Bombers played in the Grey Cup (the CFL Championship game) on November 25, 2007.
After Zac's record-setting career at Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, he looked at few possible college schools. Taylor did not receive much notice from any major colleges, not even from his hometown school the Oklahoma Sooners, so in 2002 he signed with the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. This would prove to be an uneventful and tough 2 years, redshirting his first year, and filling in the backup position the next, completing the only pass he attempted in those 2 years. It was from there that he transferred to Butler Community College (Kansas) where he passed for nearly 3,000 yards with 29 touchdowns. In his breakout season, Taylor led Butler to the NJCAA championship game, and earned second-team NJCAA All American honors.
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Zeke Bonura
Henry John (Zeke) Bonura (September 20, 1908 – March 9, 1987) was a first baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1934 through 1940, he played for the Chicago White Sox (1934–1937), Washington Senators (1938, 1940), New York Giants (1939) and Chicago Cubs (1940). Bonura batted and threw right-handed. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In a seven-season career, Bonura posted a .307 batting average with 119 home runs and 704 RBI in 917 games played.
One of Zeke Bonura's more noteworthy athletic accomplishments has nothing to do with the sport of baseball. In June 1925, at the age of sixteen, Bonura became the youngest male athlete ever to win an event at the National (AAU) Track and Field Championships. Young Zeke threw the javelin 65.18 meters (213-10) to claim the title. Bonura's winning effort was a meet record by nearly twenty-feet; a prodigious mark that remained on the books until 1930. Bonura received the Legion of Merit award while serving in the US Army during World War 2, for his work as athletic director for the Army in Oran, Algeria in 1943 in 1944.
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Zeke Bratkowski
Edmund Raymond "Zeke" Bratkowski (born October 20, 1931) is a former All-American quarterback at the University of Georgia from 1952 to 1953. He also had a fourteen year career in the NFL with the Chicago Bears, L.A. Rams and Green Bay Packers, followed by a 26-year coaching career. He is the father of the Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski.
Bratkowski began his playing career at Schlarman High School. He was twice the SEC passing leader under Georgia coach Wally Butts. During his three year career with the Bulldogs, he completed 360 passes for 4,863 yards. Bratkowski was considered one of college football's greatest quarterbacks of his day and was the NCAA's all-time leading passer until 1961. Today, Bratkowski still ranks sixth on Georgia's list of career passing leaders. He also led the NCAA in punting his senior year with a 42.6 yard average.
He was drafted by the Chicago Bears and played five seasons in Chicago. He played for the Los Angeles Rams for three years before being signed by Vince Lombardi for the $100 waiver fee to become the "super sub" to Bart Starr. In Green Bay, he was nicknamed "Uncle Zekie." He became an ideal backup and spot starter during the Lombardi championship era. In a 15 year year NFL career, Bratkowski passed for 10,345 yards and 65 touchdowns.
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Ferragamo, Vince Filmography
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- 1979 NFC Championship Game (1980)
- Super Bowl XIV (1980)
- 1978 NFC Championship Game (1979)
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NFL Films Presents Vince Ferragamo
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WEEK 15 1980 TD Pass From Vince Ferragamo to Preston Dennard
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Vince Ferragamo throws a beautiful touchdown pass to a diving Preston Dennard right before halftime of the Week 15 1980 Monday Night Football Contest between the Los Angeles Rams and The Dallas Cryboys...
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Vince Ferragamo throws a beautiful touchdown pass to a diving Preston Dennard right before halftime of the Week 15 1980 Monday Night Football Contest between the Los Angeles Rams and The Dallas Cryboys...
- published: 09 Oct 2009
- views: 17310
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VINCE FERRAGAMO
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- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
LOOK BACK AT VINNIE
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Rams Legends Signing w/ Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bill Simpson
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- Duration: 6:24
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Los Angeles Rams Legends Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bill Simpson did a public autograph signing for American Icon Autographs on April 30, 2011 at the Frank & Son Collectible Show in Southern California. It was a pleasure to work with all of these guys. Thank you Rams fans for coming out and supporting the Rams.
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Los Angeles Rams Legends Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bill Simpson did a public autograph signing for American Icon Autographs on April 30, 2011 at the Frank & Son Collectible Show in Southern California. It was a pleasure to work with all of these guys. Thank you Rams fans for coming out and supporting the Rams.
- published: 03 Jun 2011
- views: 3669
- author: AmericanIconSD
Legends of the Field - Vince Ferragamo
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- Duration: 1:32
- Updated: 30 Dec 2011
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Vince Ferragamo Interview
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- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 30 Jan 2012
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Vince Ferragamo Commercial Elmore Toyota Orange County
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- Duration: 0:31
- Updated: 21 Jan 2012
Commercial for Orange County Toyota Dealer, Elmore Toyota, featuring former NFL quarterback, Vince Ferragamo. This video is eligible for voting on Elore Toyota's Facebook Page www.facebook.com
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Commercial for Orange County Toyota Dealer, Elmore Toyota, featuring former NFL quarterback, Vince Ferragamo. This video is eligible for voting on Elore Toyota's Facebook Page www.facebook.com
- published: 10 Sep 2010
- views: 1282
- author: orangecountytoyota
Vince Ferragamo with his girls at 2006 Christmas Party
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- Duration: 0:43
- Updated: 26 Aug 2012
Vince Ferragamo dancing with his girls at the 2006 Touchdown Real Estate's Christmas Party. www.billlovelace.com
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Vince Ferragamo dancing with his girls at the 2006 Touchdown Real Estate's Christmas Party. www.billlovelace.com
- published: 13 Jun 2007
- views: 4488
- author: djlovelace
Vince Ferragamo Interview 2011
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 21 Oct 2012
College: California, Nebraska / 1980 Super Bowl QB Los Angeles Rams NFL TEAMS: Los Angeles Rams (1977-80) Montreal Alouettes - CFL (1981) Los Angeles Rams (1982-84) Buffalo Bills (1985) Green Bay Packers (1985-86)
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College: California, Nebraska / 1980 Super Bowl QB Los Angeles Rams NFL TEAMS: Los Angeles Rams (1977-80) Montreal Alouettes - CFL (1981) Los Angeles Rams (1982-84) Buffalo Bills (1985) Green Bay Packers (1985-86)
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 364
- author: BringBackTheLARams
TrojanSCorner with Vince Ferragamo (1/2)
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- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 19 Oct 2011
Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
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Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
- published: 20 Sep 2011
- views: 122
- author: ESPNLA710
TrojanSCorner with Vince Ferragamo (2/2)
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- Duration: 8:56
- Updated: 20 Sep 2011
Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
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Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
- published: 20 Sep 2011
- views: 62
- author: ESPNLA710
Vince Ferragamo Talks With A Rams Fan
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- Duration: 4:25
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Suspect (President Of Ram Central Booster Club In Fountain Valley, Ca) Chats With Vince Ferragamo At Autograph Signing... Ram Central OC is the only Rams Booster Club in Orange County officially recognized by the St.Louis Rams. Ram Central was created in 1995 by former members of the Los Angeles Rams Booster Club. After the move to St.Louis following the 1994 season the LA Rams Booster Club decided to change their name to the NFL Boosters of Orange County. Once several die hard members caught wind of this, they decided that they had enough. Thus a new Ram Booster Club was born..Ram Central OC! Ram Central meets every gameday at Ozzie's Lounge inside the Fountain Bowl in Fountain Valley,CA. We welcome all fans to come and join the booster club. You can become a member and join the club by visiting www.RamCentralOC.com ...Rams 4 Life
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Suspect (President Of Ram Central Booster Club In Fountain Valley, Ca) Chats With Vince Ferragamo At Autograph Signing... Ram Central OC is the only Rams Booster Club in Orange County officially recognized by the St.Louis Rams. Ram Central was created in 1995 by former members of the Los Angeles Rams Booster Club. After the move to St.Louis following the 1994 season the LA Rams Booster Club decided to change their name to the NFL Boosters of Orange County. Once several die hard members caught wind of this, they decided that they had enough. Thus a new Ram Booster Club was born..Ram Central OC! Ram Central meets every gameday at Ozzie's Lounge inside the Fountain Bowl in Fountain Valley,CA. We welcome all fans to come and join the booster club. You can become a member and join the club by visiting www.RamCentralOC.com ...Rams 4 Life
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 158
- author: BringBackTheLARams
NFL QB Vince Ferragamo Judges Wine at LA Int'l Wine comp
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- Duration: 1:12
- Updated: 18 May 2012
Superbowl quarterback Vince Ferragamo was a judge at the 2012 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition. Ferragamo also bottles his own wine, Tenuta di Ferragamo - a Sangiovese Cab blend.
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Superbowl quarterback Vince Ferragamo was a judge at the 2012 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition. Ferragamo also bottles his own wine, Tenuta di Ferragamo - a Sangiovese Cab blend.
- published: 18 May 2012
- views: 58
- author: fairplex
2011 Los Angeles Rams Autograph Signing
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- Duration: 15:01
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
"Bring Back The Los Angeles Rams" Interviews Vince Ferragamo & Charles White, A Perspective On Why The Rams Should Come Home To Los Angeles & Response's From The Rams Fans.
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"Bring Back The Los Angeles Rams" Interviews Vince Ferragamo & Charles White, A Perspective On Why The Rams Should Come Home To Los Angeles & Response's From The Rams Fans.
- published: 30 Nov 2011
- views: 617
- author: BringBackTheLARams
Vince Ferragamo
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- Duration: 0:23
- Updated: 10 Jul 2011
Vince Ferragamo rams quarterback
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Vince Ferragamo Signs For The SI KING 12-10-11
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- Duration: 0:54
- Updated: 12 Dec 2011
Backstage at the SI autograph show here in NJ
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Arizona State quarterback Michael Eubank eyes starting job for Sun Devils
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- Duration: 2:58
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Former Centennial High School star Michael Eubank returned home to Corona and spent time training with former NFL stars Leonard Russell and Vince Ferragamo. Eubank is poised to the be starting quarterback at Arizona State this fall.
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Former Centennial High School star Michael Eubank returned home to Corona and spent time training with former NFL stars Leonard Russell and Vince Ferragamo. Eubank is poised to the be starting quarterback at Arizona State this fall.
- published: 23 May 2012
- views: 893
- author: PressEnterprisePep
1980 TD Pass From Vince Ferragamo to Preston Dennard
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- Duration: 0:59
- Updated: 11 Jul 2012
1980 rams mydamrams.tripod.com
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Vince Ferragamo bio
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- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
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On The Clock's Legends of Nebraska on Amazon.com
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- Duration: 3:13
- Updated: 13 Sep 2011
For full DVD with other Cornhusker Legends Visit www.amazon.com Only a few states will rally around a football program, as much as the State of Nebraska has rallied round the Cornhuskers. The Legends of College Football are truly born in Nebraska. This DVD features such superstars of the Cornhusker Football as WR Irving "The Reverend" Fryar, RB Roger Craig, DE Neil Smith, FB Tom Rathan, QB Vince Ferragamo, RB Ahman Green, CB Fabian Washington, LB Barrett Ruud, DB Josh Bullocks, OL Richie Incognito, and DB Daniel Bullocks. As a bonus feature, this DVD also showcases some of the recent star college players and Heisman trophy winners, such as Reggie Bush, Vince Young and Matt Leinart.Several sports writers and commentators, such as the legendary Mel Kiper Jr., have reviewed the titles and stated that they were well done. The title uses the best game highlight footage selected by the coaches, which is called the "coaches tape," and which is later supplied to the NFL scouts as they evaluated these players prior to the NFL April drafts. It was great to hear and see what these scouts had to say about many of these great athletes. "The digital footage is top quality and is accompanied by professional-looking graphics. The narration is brief, letting the action tell the story." -- Ken Thompson, NFL Sports Writer (The Journal and Courier). "Extremely well put together and impressive. Honestly better than I expected. " -- Chris Horwedel, owner of NFL Draft Blitz "I viewed the ...
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For full DVD with other Cornhusker Legends Visit www.amazon.com Only a few states will rally around a football program, as much as the State of Nebraska has rallied round the Cornhuskers. The Legends of College Football are truly born in Nebraska. This DVD features such superstars of the Cornhusker Football as WR Irving "The Reverend" Fryar, RB Roger Craig, DE Neil Smith, FB Tom Rathan, QB Vince Ferragamo, RB Ahman Green, CB Fabian Washington, LB Barrett Ruud, DB Josh Bullocks, OL Richie Incognito, and DB Daniel Bullocks. As a bonus feature, this DVD also showcases some of the recent star college players and Heisman trophy winners, such as Reggie Bush, Vince Young and Matt Leinart.Several sports writers and commentators, such as the legendary Mel Kiper Jr., have reviewed the titles and stated that they were well done. The title uses the best game highlight footage selected by the coaches, which is called the "coaches tape," and which is later supplied to the NFL scouts as they evaluated these players prior to the NFL April drafts. It was great to hear and see what these scouts had to say about many of these great athletes. "The digital footage is top quality and is accompanied by professional-looking graphics. The narration is brief, letting the action tell the story." -- Ken Thompson, NFL Sports Writer (The Journal and Courier). "Extremely well put together and impressive. Honestly better than I expected. " -- Chris Horwedel, owner of NFL Draft Blitz "I viewed the ...
- published: 15 Nov 2010
- views: 1464
- author: emassingale1
Rams QB Draft History
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- Duration: 10:12
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
Saint Louis Rams Drafted Quarterbacks Year Rnd College/Univ 20101Sam BradfordOklahoma 2009 6 Keith Null W. Texas A&M; 2005 7 Ryan Fitzpatrick Harvard 2004 6 Jeff Smoker Michigan State 2002 6 Steve Bellisari Ohio State 1999 4 Joe Germaine Ohio State 1996 2 Tony Banks Michigan State 1992 8 Ricky Jones Alabama State 1992 9 TJ Rubley Tulsa 1989 4 Jeff Carlson Weber State 19879Tracy HamGa Southern 1986 3 Hugh Millen Washington 1985 11 Doug Flutie Boston College 1984*2Rick JohnsonS. Illinois (USFL) 1983 12 Clete Casper Washington St. 1980 12 Kevin Scanlon Arkansas 1979 9 Jeff Rutledge Alabama 1978 4 Mark Manges Maryland 1977 4 Vince Ferragamo Nebraska 1976 13 Steve Hamilton Emporia State 1975 7 Pat Haden USC 1975 15 Alvin White Oregon State 1974 4 Norris Weese Mississippi 1973 2 Ron Jaworski Youngstown St. 1971 11 Charlie Richards Richmond 1970 12 Larry Arnold Hawaii 1969 12 Tim Carr CW Post 1968 2 Gary Beban UCLA 196816Jimmy RayeMichigan St. 1965 19 Billy Guy Anderson Tulsa 1964 1 Bill Munson Utah State 1964 10 Ron C. Smith Richmond 1963 1 Terry Baker Oregon State 1962 1 Roman Gabriel NC State 1962 18 Charlie Furlow Mississippi St. 1961 3 Ron Miller Wisconsin 19603Charley BrittGeorgia 1959 2 Buddy Humphrey Baylor 1958 5 Frank Ryan Rice 1958 10 Al Jacks Penn State 1957 4 Bobby Cox Minnesota 1956 12 Em Lindbeck Illinois 1953 2 Rudy Bukich USC 1952 1 Billy Wade Vanderbilt 1949 1 Bobby Thomason VMI 1949 4 Norm Van Brocklin Oregon 194621Cliff LewisDuke 1944 5 Bob Waterfield UCLA ...
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Saint Louis Rams Drafted Quarterbacks Year Rnd College/Univ 20101Sam BradfordOklahoma 2009 6 Keith Null W. Texas A&M; 2005 7 Ryan Fitzpatrick Harvard 2004 6 Jeff Smoker Michigan State 2002 6 Steve Bellisari Ohio State 1999 4 Joe Germaine Ohio State 1996 2 Tony Banks Michigan State 1992 8 Ricky Jones Alabama State 1992 9 TJ Rubley Tulsa 1989 4 Jeff Carlson Weber State 19879Tracy HamGa Southern 1986 3 Hugh Millen Washington 1985 11 Doug Flutie Boston College 1984*2Rick JohnsonS. Illinois (USFL) 1983 12 Clete Casper Washington St. 1980 12 Kevin Scanlon Arkansas 1979 9 Jeff Rutledge Alabama 1978 4 Mark Manges Maryland 1977 4 Vince Ferragamo Nebraska 1976 13 Steve Hamilton Emporia State 1975 7 Pat Haden USC 1975 15 Alvin White Oregon State 1974 4 Norris Weese Mississippi 1973 2 Ron Jaworski Youngstown St. 1971 11 Charlie Richards Richmond 1970 12 Larry Arnold Hawaii 1969 12 Tim Carr CW Post 1968 2 Gary Beban UCLA 196816Jimmy RayeMichigan St. 1965 19 Billy Guy Anderson Tulsa 1964 1 Bill Munson Utah State 1964 10 Ron C. Smith Richmond 1963 1 Terry Baker Oregon State 1962 1 Roman Gabriel NC State 1962 18 Charlie Furlow Mississippi St. 1961 3 Ron Miller Wisconsin 19603Charley BrittGeorgia 1959 2 Buddy Humphrey Baylor 1958 5 Frank Ryan Rice 1958 10 Al Jacks Penn State 1957 4 Bobby Cox Minnesota 1956 12 Em Lindbeck Illinois 1953 2 Rudy Bukich USC 1952 1 Billy Wade Vanderbilt 1949 1 Bobby Thomason VMI 1949 4 Norm Van Brocklin Oregon 194621Cliff LewisDuke 1944 5 Bob Waterfield UCLA ...
- published: 26 Apr 2010
- views: 1891
- author: AVSEAL2012
Fight Night 14 Sugar Ray Leonard & Tommy Hearns on What's Up Orange County
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- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 04 May 2012
www.WhatsUpOrangecounty.com Fight Night 14 for Marconi Foundation for Kids with Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Vince Ferragamo and more.
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www.WhatsUpOrangecounty.com Fight Night 14 for Marconi Foundation for Kids with Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Vince Ferragamo and more.
- published: 20 Mar 2012
- views: 726
- author: scottstewart
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NFL Films Presents Vince Ferragamo
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- Duration: 9:24
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
look back at 1979 Ram season mydamrams.tripod.com
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look back at 1979 Ram season mydamrams.tripod.com
- published: 03 Jan 2012
- views: 6895
- author: alaramfan
Top NFL Films Presents Vince Ferragamo Compilation
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- Duration: 9:23
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
visit : goo.gl for free nfl jersey . NFL Films Presents Vince Ferragamo,look back at 1979 Ram season
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visit : goo.gl for free nfl jersey . NFL Films Presents Vince Ferragamo,look back at 1979 Ram season
- published: 03 May 2012
- views: 216
- author: jamieebberts
WEEK 15 1980 TD Pass From Vince Ferragamo to Preston Dennard
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- Duration: 1:03
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Vince Ferragamo throws a beautiful touchdown pass to a diving Preston Dennard right before halftime of the Week 15 1980 Monday Night Football Contest between the Los Angeles Rams and The Dallas Cryboys...
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Vince Ferragamo throws a beautiful touchdown pass to a diving Preston Dennard right before halftime of the Week 15 1980 Monday Night Football Contest between the Los Angeles Rams and The Dallas Cryboys...
- published: 09 Oct 2009
- views: 17196
- author: remedyrocker65
VINCE FERRAGAMO
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 01 Jul 2012
LOOK BACK AT VINNIE
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Vince Ferragamo Interview
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- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 30 Jan 2012
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Rams Legends Signing w/ Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bill Simpson
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- Duration: 6:24
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Los Angeles Rams Legends Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bill Simpson did a public autograph signing for American Icon Autographs on April 30, 2011 at the Frank & Son Collectible Show in Southern California. It was a pleasure to work with all of these guys. Thank you Rams fans for coming out and supporting the Rams.
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Los Angeles Rams Legends Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bill Simpson did a public autograph signing for American Icon Autographs on April 30, 2011 at the Frank & Son Collectible Show in Southern California. It was a pleasure to work with all of these guys. Thank you Rams fans for coming out and supporting the Rams.
- published: 03 Jun 2011
- views: 3250
- author: AmericanIconSD
Legends of the Field - Vince Ferragamo
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- Duration: 1:32
- Updated: 30 Dec 2011
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Vince Ferragamo Interview 2011
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 21 Oct 2012
College: California, Nebraska / 1980 Super Bowl QB Los Angeles Rams NFL TEAMS: Los Angeles Rams (1977-80) Montreal Alouettes - CFL (1981) Los Angeles Rams (1982-84) Buffalo Bills (1985) Green Bay Packers (1985-86)
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College: California, Nebraska / 1980 Super Bowl QB Los Angeles Rams NFL TEAMS: Los Angeles Rams (1977-80) Montreal Alouettes - CFL (1981) Los Angeles Rams (1982-84) Buffalo Bills (1985) Green Bay Packers (1985-86)
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 361
- author: BringBackTheLARams
Vince Ferragamo Commercial Elmore Toyota Orange County
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- Duration: 0:31
- Updated: 21 Jan 2012
Commercial for Orange County Toyota Dealer, Elmore Toyota, featuring former NFL quarterback, Vince Ferragamo. This video is eligible for voting on Elore Toyota's Facebook Page www.facebook.com
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Commercial for Orange County Toyota Dealer, Elmore Toyota, featuring former NFL quarterback, Vince Ferragamo. This video is eligible for voting on Elore Toyota's Facebook Page www.facebook.com
- published: 10 Sep 2010
- views: 1276
- author: orangecountytoyota
Vince Ferragamo with his girls at 2006 Christmas Party
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- Duration: 0:43
- Updated: 26 Aug 2012
Vince Ferragamo dancing with his girls at the 2006 Touchdown Real Estate's Christmas Party. www.billlovelace.com
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Vince Ferragamo dancing with his girls at the 2006 Touchdown Real Estate's Christmas Party. www.billlovelace.com
- published: 13 Jun 2007
- views: 4480
- author: djlovelace
2011 Los Angeles Rams Autograph Signing
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- Duration: 15:01
- Updated: 12 Jul 2012
"Bring Back The Los Angeles Rams" Interviews Vince Ferragamo & Charles White, A Perspective On Why The Rams Should Come Home To Los Angeles & Response's From The Rams Fans.
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"Bring Back The Los Angeles Rams" Interviews Vince Ferragamo & Charles White, A Perspective On Why The Rams Should Come Home To Los Angeles & Response's From The Rams Fans.
- published: 30 Nov 2011
- views: 613
- author: BringBackTheLARams
TrojanSCorner with Vince Ferragamo (1/2)
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- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 19 Oct 2011
Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
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Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
- published: 20 Sep 2011
- views: 121
- author: ESPNLA710
TrojanSCorner with Vince Ferragamo (2/2)
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- Duration: 8:56
- Updated: 20 Sep 2011
Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
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Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
- published: 20 Sep 2011
- views: 62
- author: ESPNLA710
Vince Ferragamo Talks With A Rams Fan
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- Duration: 4:25
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Suspect (President Of Ram Central Booster Club In Fountain Valley, Ca) Chats With Vince Ferragamo At Autograph Signing... Ram Central OC is the only Rams Booster Club in Orange County officially recognized by the St.Louis Rams. Ram Central was created in 1995 by former members of the Los Angeles Rams Booster Club. After the move to St.Louis following the 1994 season the LA Rams Booster Club decided to change their name to the NFL Boosters of Orange County. Once several die hard members caught wind of this, they decided that they had enough. Thus a new Ram Booster Club was born..Ram Central OC! Ram Central meets every gameday at Ozzie's Lounge inside the Fountain Bowl in Fountain Valley,CA. We welcome all fans to come and join the booster club. You can become a member and join the club by visiting www.RamCentralOC.com ...Rams 4 Life
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Suspect (President Of Ram Central Booster Club In Fountain Valley, Ca) Chats With Vince Ferragamo At Autograph Signing... Ram Central OC is the only Rams Booster Club in Orange County officially recognized by the St.Louis Rams. Ram Central was created in 1995 by former members of the Los Angeles Rams Booster Club. After the move to St.Louis following the 1994 season the LA Rams Booster Club decided to change their name to the NFL Boosters of Orange County. Once several die hard members caught wind of this, they decided that they had enough. Thus a new Ram Booster Club was born..Ram Central OC! Ram Central meets every gameday at Ozzie's Lounge inside the Fountain Bowl in Fountain Valley,CA. We welcome all fans to come and join the booster club. You can become a member and join the club by visiting www.RamCentralOC.com ...Rams 4 Life
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 153
- author: BringBackTheLARams
NFL QB Vince Ferragamo Judges Wine at LA Int'l Wine comp
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- Duration: 1:12
- Updated: 18 May 2012
Superbowl quarterback Vince Ferragamo was a judge at the 2012 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition. Ferragamo also bottles his own wine, Tenuta di Ferragamo - a Sangiovese Cab blend.
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Superbowl quarterback Vince Ferragamo was a judge at the 2012 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition. Ferragamo also bottles his own wine, Tenuta di Ferragamo - a Sangiovese Cab blend.
- published: 18 May 2012
- views: 56
- author: fairplex
Vince Ferragamo
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- Duration: 0:23
- Updated: 10 Jul 2011
Vince Ferragamo rams quarterback
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Arizona State quarterback Michael Eubank eyes starting job for Sun Devils
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- Duration: 2:58
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Former Centennial High School star Michael Eubank returned home to Corona and spent time training with former NFL stars Leonard Russell and Vince Ferragamo. Eubank is poised to the be starting quarterback at Arizona State this fall.
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Former Centennial High School star Michael Eubank returned home to Corona and spent time training with former NFL stars Leonard Russell and Vince Ferragamo. Eubank is poised to the be starting quarterback at Arizona State this fall.
- published: 23 May 2012
- views: 873
- author: PressEnterprisePep
1980 TD Pass From Vince Ferragamo to Preston Dennard
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- Duration: 0:59
- Updated: 11 Jul 2012
1980 rams mydamrams.tripod.com
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Vince Ferragamo Signs For The SI KING 12-10-11
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- Duration: 0:54
- Updated: 12 Dec 2011
Backstage at the SI autograph show here in NJ
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Coach Ferragamo - Coach of the Week October 2009
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- Duration: 2:47
- Updated: 02 Jun 2012
ABC's Sports Zone names Chris Ferragamo as coach of the week after the win at San Fernando. Includes Mr. Woodson and his Mighty Marching Pilots.
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ABC's Sports Zone names Chris Ferragamo as coach of the week after the win at San Fernando. Includes Mr. Woodson and his Mighty Marching Pilots.
- published: 05 Oct 2009
- views: 3004
- author: pilotfootball
EHRS Adrenalin Rush Football Camp 2012 smaller
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- Duration: 29:35
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Eleanor Roosevelt High School 2012 Football Camp conducted by Adrenalin. Foothall camp organized by Lee Nunes, President of the EHRS Boosters. NFL Stars Vince Ferragamo and famous 8 Time LA City League Championship Coach Chris Ferragamo among trainers.
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Eleanor Roosevelt High School 2012 Football Camp conducted by Adrenalin. Foothall camp organized by Lee Nunes, President of the EHRS Boosters. NFL Stars Vince Ferragamo and famous 8 Time LA City League Championship Coach Chris Ferragamo among trainers.
- published: 16 Aug 2012
- views: 43
- author: Steve Quartararo
On The Clock's Legends of Nebraska on Amazon.com
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- Duration: 3:13
- Updated: 13 Sep 2011
For full DVD with other Cornhusker Legends Visit www.amazon.com Only a few states will rally around a football program, as much as the State of Nebraska has rallied round the Cornhuskers. The Legends of College Football are truly born in Nebraska. This DVD features such superstars of the Cornhusker Football as WR Irving "The Reverend" Fryar, RB Roger Craig, DE Neil Smith, FB Tom Rathan, QB Vince Ferragamo, RB Ahman Green, CB Fabian Washington, LB Barrett Ruud, DB Josh Bullocks, OL Richie Incognito, and DB Daniel Bullocks. As a bonus feature, this DVD also showcases some of the recent star college players and Heisman trophy winners, such as Reggie Bush, Vince Young and Matt Leinart.Several sports writers and commentators, such as the legendary Mel Kiper Jr., have reviewed the titles and stated that they were well done. The title uses the best game highlight footage selected by the coaches, which is called the "coaches tape," and which is later supplied to the NFL scouts as they evaluated these players prior to the NFL April drafts. It was great to hear and see what these scouts had to say about many of these great athletes. "The digital footage is top quality and is accompanied by professional-looking graphics. The narration is brief, letting the action tell the story." -- Ken Thompson, NFL Sports Writer (The Journal and Courier). "Extremely well put together and impressive. Honestly better than I expected. " -- Chris Horwedel, owner of NFL Draft Blitz "I viewed the ...
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For full DVD with other Cornhusker Legends Visit www.amazon.com Only a few states will rally around a football program, as much as the State of Nebraska has rallied round the Cornhuskers. The Legends of College Football are truly born in Nebraska. This DVD features such superstars of the Cornhusker Football as WR Irving "The Reverend" Fryar, RB Roger Craig, DE Neil Smith, FB Tom Rathan, QB Vince Ferragamo, RB Ahman Green, CB Fabian Washington, LB Barrett Ruud, DB Josh Bullocks, OL Richie Incognito, and DB Daniel Bullocks. As a bonus feature, this DVD also showcases some of the recent star college players and Heisman trophy winners, such as Reggie Bush, Vince Young and Matt Leinart.Several sports writers and commentators, such as the legendary Mel Kiper Jr., have reviewed the titles and stated that they were well done. The title uses the best game highlight footage selected by the coaches, which is called the "coaches tape," and which is later supplied to the NFL scouts as they evaluated these players prior to the NFL April drafts. It was great to hear and see what these scouts had to say about many of these great athletes. "The digital footage is top quality and is accompanied by professional-looking graphics. The narration is brief, letting the action tell the story." -- Ken Thompson, NFL Sports Writer (The Journal and Courier). "Extremely well put together and impressive. Honestly better than I expected. " -- Chris Horwedel, owner of NFL Draft Blitz "I viewed the ...
- published: 15 Nov 2010
- views: 1455
- author: emassingale1
Marconi Foundation Fight Night Pt. 2, 2012
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- Duration: 12:19
- Updated: 04 May 2012
"Marconi Fight Night" held at an EXCLUSIVE $30 MILLION automotive museum housing one of the world's most exotic Ferrari and Lamborghini collections has come to be known as more than a premiere sporting event, it is a fund raising initiative that has benefited so many valuable causes for more than a decade with the help of many sports figures and celebrities. An exclusive interview with Sugar Ray Leonard opens up this video. In attendance was "Producer David Arquett", "Super Bowl Champion Vince Ferragamo", Tommy "Hitman" Hearns and "Mia St. John Playboy Playmate and former WIBA and WIBF Lightweight Champion". Priscilla "Bo" Marconi, who, with her husband, entrepreneur Dick Marconi, have been producing Fight Night for 14 years, and raises $1 million annually for at-risk children through the Marconi Foundation for Kids.
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"Marconi Fight Night" held at an EXCLUSIVE $30 MILLION automotive museum housing one of the world's most exotic Ferrari and Lamborghini collections has come to be known as more than a premiere sporting event, it is a fund raising initiative that has benefited so many valuable causes for more than a decade with the help of many sports figures and celebrities. An exclusive interview with Sugar Ray Leonard opens up this video. In attendance was "Producer David Arquett", "Super Bowl Champion Vince Ferragamo", Tommy "Hitman" Hearns and "Mia St. John Playboy Playmate and former WIBA and WIBF Lightweight Champion". Priscilla "Bo" Marconi, who, with her husband, entrepreneur Dick Marconi, have been producing Fight Night for 14 years, and raises $1 million annually for at-risk children through the Marconi Foundation for Kids.
- published: 12 Mar 2012
- views: 176
- author: Need4SpeedTV
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Top NFL Films Presents Vince Ferragamo Compilation
visit : goo.gl for free nfl jersey . NFL Films Presents Vince Ferragamo,look back at 1979 ...
published: 03 May 2012
author: jamieebberts
Top NFL Films Presents Vince Ferragamo Compilation
visit : goo.gl for free nfl jersey . NFL Films Presents Vince Ferragamo,look back at 1979 Ram season
- published: 03 May 2012
- views: 216
- author: jamieebberts
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WEEK 15 1980 TD Pass From Vince Ferragamo to Preston Dennard
Vince Ferragamo throws a beautiful touchdown pass to a diving Preston Dennard right before...
published: 09 Oct 2009
author: remedyrocker65
WEEK 15 1980 TD Pass From Vince Ferragamo to Preston Dennard
Vince Ferragamo throws a beautiful touchdown pass to a diving Preston Dennard right before halftime of the Week 15 1980 Monday Night Football Contest between the Los Angeles Rams and The Dallas Cryboys...
- published: 09 Oct 2009
- views: 17196
- author: remedyrocker65
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Rams Legends Signing w/ Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bill Simpson
Los Angeles Rams Legends Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bil...
published: 03 Jun 2011
author: AmericanIconSD
Rams Legends Signing w/ Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bill Simpson
Los Angeles Rams Legends Fred Dryer, Jack Youngblood, Vince Ferragamo, Roman Gabriel & Bill Simpson did a public autograph signing for American Icon Autographs on April 30, 2011 at the Frank & Son Collectible Show in Southern California. It was a pleasure to work with all of these guys. Thank you Rams fans for coming out and supporting the Rams.
- published: 03 Jun 2011
- views: 3250
- author: AmericanIconSD
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Vince Ferragamo Interview 2011
College: California, Nebraska / 1980 Super Bowl QB Los Angeles Rams NFL TEAMS: Los Angeles...
published: 17 Feb 2012
author: BringBackTheLARams
Vince Ferragamo Interview 2011
College: California, Nebraska / 1980 Super Bowl QB Los Angeles Rams NFL TEAMS: Los Angeles Rams (1977-80) Montreal Alouettes - CFL (1981) Los Angeles Rams (1982-84) Buffalo Bills (1985) Green Bay Packers (1985-86)
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 361
- author: BringBackTheLARams
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Vince Ferragamo Commercial Elmore Toyota Orange County
Commercial for Orange County Toyota Dealer, Elmore Toyota, featuring former NFL quarterbac...
published: 10 Sep 2010
author: orangecountytoyota
Vince Ferragamo Commercial Elmore Toyota Orange County
Commercial for Orange County Toyota Dealer, Elmore Toyota, featuring former NFL quarterback, Vince Ferragamo. This video is eligible for voting on Elore Toyota's Facebook Page www.facebook.com
- published: 10 Sep 2010
- views: 1276
- author: orangecountytoyota
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Vince Ferragamo with his girls at 2006 Christmas Party
Vince Ferragamo dancing with his girls at the 2006 Touchdown Real Estate's Christmas Party...
published: 13 Jun 2007
author: djlovelace
Vince Ferragamo with his girls at 2006 Christmas Party
Vince Ferragamo dancing with his girls at the 2006 Touchdown Real Estate's Christmas Party. www.billlovelace.com
- published: 13 Jun 2007
- views: 4480
- author: djlovelace
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2011 Los Angeles Rams Autograph Signing
"Bring Back The Los Angeles Rams" Interviews Vince Ferragamo & Charles White, A Perspectiv...
published: 30 Nov 2011
author: BringBackTheLARams
2011 Los Angeles Rams Autograph Signing
"Bring Back The Los Angeles Rams" Interviews Vince Ferragamo & Charles White, A Perspective On Why The Rams Should Come Home To Los Angeles & Response's From The Rams Fans.
- published: 30 Nov 2011
- views: 613
- author: BringBackTheLARams
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TrojanSCorner with Vince Ferragamo (1/2)
Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and d...
published: 20 Sep 2011
author: ESPNLA710
TrojanSCorner with Vince Ferragamo (1/2)
Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
- published: 20 Sep 2011
- views: 121
- author: ESPNLA710
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TrojanSCorner with Vince Ferragamo (2/2)
Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and d...
published: 20 Sep 2011
author: ESPNLA710
TrojanSCorner with Vince Ferragamo (2/2)
Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo becomes the first non-Trojan to join TrojanSCorner and discusses the feel of playing pro football in the Coliseum, the NFL's return to LA, and shares his wine expertise.
- published: 20 Sep 2011
- views: 62
- author: ESPNLA710
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Vince Ferragamo Talks With A Rams Fan
Suspect (President Of Ram Central Booster Club In Fountain Valley, Ca) Chats With Vince Fe...
published: 17 Feb 2012
author: BringBackTheLARams
Vince Ferragamo Talks With A Rams Fan
Suspect (President Of Ram Central Booster Club In Fountain Valley, Ca) Chats With Vince Ferragamo At Autograph Signing... Ram Central OC is the only Rams Booster Club in Orange County officially recognized by the St.Louis Rams. Ram Central was created in 1995 by former members of the Los Angeles Rams Booster Club. After the move to St.Louis following the 1994 season the LA Rams Booster Club decided to change their name to the NFL Boosters of Orange County. Once several die hard members caught wind of this, they decided that they had enough. Thus a new Ram Booster Club was born..Ram Central OC! Ram Central meets every gameday at Ozzie's Lounge inside the Fountain Bowl in Fountain Valley,CA. We welcome all fans to come and join the booster club. You can become a member and join the club by visiting www.RamCentralOC.com ...Rams 4 Life
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 153
- author: BringBackTheLARams
Vimeo results:
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Tom McNerney's big drive at Vince Ferragamo's Golf Classic for Special Olympics
published: 07 Jun 2011
author: Brian Goodell
Tom McNerney's big drive at Vince Ferragamo's Golf Classic for Special Olympics
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Elle New Muse Part I - Taylor Warren
Director Tim Richardson
Creative Director Nicola Formichetti
Cinematographer Darren Lew
Ma...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Tim Richardson
Elle New Muse Part I - Taylor Warren
Director Tim Richardson
Creative Director Nicola Formichetti
Cinematographer Darren Lew
Make-up Maki Ryoke
Hair Bok Hee
Music Vince Nudo
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Elle New Muse Part I - Taylor Warren Beta
Director Tim Richardson
Creative Director Nicola Formichetti
Cinematographer Darren Lew
Mu...
published: 12 Feb 2012
author: Tim Richardson
Elle New Muse Part I - Taylor Warren Beta
Director Tim Richardson
Creative Director Nicola Formichetti
Cinematographer Darren Lew
Music Vince Nudo
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Journey at Pechanga
Golf course at Pechanga Casino & Resort, Vince Ferragamo Foundation for Special Olympics w...
published: 07 Jun 2011
author: Brian Goodell
Journey at Pechanga
Golf course at Pechanga Casino & Resort, Vince Ferragamo Foundation for Special Olympics with Tom McNerney, Jim and Bev(mo) McNerney, Jeff and Marilyn Carpenter, adn Brian Goodell
Youtube results:
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NFL QB Vince Ferragamo Judges Wine at LA Int'l Wine comp
Superbowl quarterback Vince Ferragamo was a judge at the 2012 Los Angeles International Wi...
published: 18 May 2012
author: fairplex
NFL QB Vince Ferragamo Judges Wine at LA Int'l Wine comp
Superbowl quarterback Vince Ferragamo was a judge at the 2012 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition. Ferragamo also bottles his own wine, Tenuta di Ferragamo - a Sangiovese Cab blend.
- published: 18 May 2012
- views: 56
- author: fairplex
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Vince Ferragamo
Vince Ferragamo rams quarterback...
published: 10 Jul 2011
author: RockandJock1
Vince Ferragamo
Vince Ferragamo rams quarterback
- published: 10 Jul 2011
- views: 225
- author: RockandJock1
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Arizona State quarterback Michael Eubank eyes starting job for Sun Devils
Former Centennial High School star Michael Eubank returned home to Corona and spent time t...
published: 23 May 2012
author: PressEnterprisePep
Arizona State quarterback Michael Eubank eyes starting job for Sun Devils
Former Centennial High School star Michael Eubank returned home to Corona and spent time training with former NFL stars Leonard Russell and Vince Ferragamo. Eubank is poised to the be starting quarterback at Arizona State this fall.
- published: 23 May 2012
- views: 873
- author: PressEnterprisePep
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon
25 Jan 2013
Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish. Clinton’s smooth and confident performance at Wednesday’s Senate and House committee hearings was fun to watch. When her would-be inquisitors asked serious questions, she gave serious answers. But when Sen ... Fat chance ... Benghazi ... Perhaps not ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
photo: White House / Pete Souza
24 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In the world of politics and imagination, theater usually trumps theology while history is most often vanquished by histrionics. President Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony for a second term reflects this truth, specifically as he uses two historic bibles-one belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and another used only by Abraham Lincoln ... "With malice toward none; with charity for all."....(size: 7.3Kb)
photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Chad Chisholm
24 Jan 2013
Ben Emmerson QC addresses reporters in London (Photo. TBIJ). A UN investigation into the legality and casualties of drone strikes has been formally launched, with a leading human rights lawyer revealing the team that will carry out the inquiry. The announcement came as the latest reported US drone strike in Yemen was said to have mistakenly killed two children ... In total some 25 strikes are expected to be examined in detail ... He added....(size: 7.1Kb)
photo: AP / Themba Hadebe
25 Jan 2013
Live text commentary as Zambia face Nigeria and Bukina Faso play Ethiopia in Group C of the Africa Cup of Nations. To get live updates & watch our video coverage you must enable Javascript. Watch My Cup of Nations - Daouda Diakite Watch My Cup of Nations - Jacob Mulenga. 25 January 2013 Share this page. print. Get involved. To get involved contact us in any of the following ways Send us a text ... Live Reporting. In Summary ... 1430. ... ....(size: 17.2Kb)
photo: UN / Martine Perret
25 Jan 2013
At least one in five people, including half of schoolchildren, were infected with swine flu during the first year of the pandemic in 2009, according to data from 19 countries. It is thought the virus killed 200,000 people around the world. A World Health Organization-led study looked for evidence of the body's immune system fighting the virus ... Anti-bodies ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
The Miami Herald
23 Jan 2013
We have nearly two weeks to get to the brothers coaching in the "Super Baugh," the three R's (Ray, Religion and Retirement) and the ink that's on Colin Kaepernick's arms and not on Joe Flacco's next contract ... 3 ... Only former Giants quarterback Jeff Hostetler (six) and former Rams quarterback Vince Ferragamo (seven) had fewer starts before starting in the Super Bowl. Hostetler won Super Bowl XXV, while Ferragamo lost Super Bowl XIV. Q ... A ... Q....(size: 3.6Kb)
Sacramento Bee
23 Jan 2013
We have nearly two weeks to get to the brothers coaching in the "Super Baugh," the three R's (Ray, Religion and Retirement) and the ink that's on Colin Kaepernick's arms and not on Joe Flacco's next contract ... 3 ... Only former Giants quarterback Jeff Hostetler (six) and former Rams quarterback Vince Ferragamo (seven) had fewer starts before starting in the Super Bowl. Hostetler won Super Bowl XXV, while Ferragamo lost Super Bowl XIV. Q ... A ... Q....(size: 5.5Kb)
Star Tribune
22 Jan 2013
We have 12 days to get to the brothers coaching in the "Super Baugh," the three R's (Ray, Religion and Retirement) and the ink that's on Colin Kaepernick's arms and not on Joe Flacco's next contract ... 3. Q ... Only former Giants quarterback Jeff Hostetler (six) and former Rams quarterback Vince Ferragamo (seven) had fewer starts before starting in the Super Bowl. Hostetler won Super Bowl XXV, while Ferragamo lost Super Bowl XIV. Q ... ....(size: 5.7Kb)
CBC
21 Jan 2013
Among Super Bowl quarterbacks only Jeff Hostetler (six) and Vince Ferragamo (seven) had fewer, but they each had been in the league three or more seasons ... Jay Cutler of Chicago is seemingly the only hope of 2006's crop (Vince Young, Matt Leinart among the disappointments), while 2007 was a complete gong show (JaMarcus Russell is out of football, Brady Quinn will be lucky next year to retain backup status).The franchises ... San Francisco....(size: 5.0Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
21 Jan 2013
ATLANTA - Right on cue, Vernon Davis delivered in January. For the second time in two seasons, San Francisco's tight end - quiet in the 2012 regular season - delivered in one of the season's biggest games, collecting five catches for 106 yards and a touchdown in a 28-24 win over the Falcons in the NFC Championship Game ... "... Crabtree plays ... The Giants' Jeff Hostetler and the Rams' Vince Ferragamo had four and five starts, respectively ... ....(size: 4.1Kb)
Bloomberg
21 Jan 2013
Colin Kaepernick traded his label as a running quarterback to lead the biggest comeback in National Football Conference championship game history and take the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl ... “In practice and in games, it’s always the same ... Jeff Hostetler led the New York Giants to a Super Bowl victory after the 1990 season with four regular- season starts, and Vince Ferragamo had started five games when St ... 1 pick in 2005 ... ....(size: 5.9Kb)
Denver Post
21 Jan 2013
San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, left, in Atlanta, and Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh in Foxborough, Mass., during their NFL football conference championship games on Sunday. (Associated Press photos) ... Yes, John and Jim Harbaugh will now take sibling rivalries to the next level ... A quarterback test ... Now vs. later ... 8-4 ... 7 ... The Giants' Jeff Hostetler had four starts in 1990 and the Rams' Vince Ferragamo had five in 1979 ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
The New York Times
20 Dec 2012
Judy Battista, the N.F.L. reporter for The Times, answers questions from readers.Q. This is an easy question. Who do you pick for the Super Bowl? — Stephen, Windsor, OntarioA ... Trent Dilfer, Jeff Hostetler and Mark Rypien have Super Bowl rings! Other Super Bowl starters–Joe Kapp, David Woodley, Stan Humphries, Neil O’Donnell, Rex Grossman, Rich Gannon, Brad Johnson, Kerry Collins, Chris Chandler, Vince Ferragamo ... A ... EST ... 1....(size: 29.8Kb)
New York Post Online
05 Dec 2012
Mike Vaccaro. Follow Mike on Twitter. The train meanders north through Baltimore, through Wilmington, through Philadelphia and Trenton. A businessman sitting to my left is snoring so loud that they’re complaining in the Quiet Car, and we aren’t even in the Quiet Car ... So I click the Twitter app on my cell phone ... Paul J. Bereswill ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... And the next year, Haden traded in the two cool nicknames for Joe Namath and Vince Ferragamo ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
STL Today
30 Nov 2012
With their longtime West Coast rivals, the San Francisco 49ers, in town Sunday for a noon kickoff at the Edward Jones Dome what better time to celebrate the Rams’ 75th anniversary as an NFL franchise. The Rams, who began play in 1937 in Cleveland, will mark the occasion by wearing throwback uniforms from the 1999 Super Bowl championship season ... Meanwhile, Vince Ferragamo and Jeff Wilkins will sign autographs for fans from 10-10.30 a.m....(size: 3.8Kb)
STL Today
30 Nov 2012
With their longtime West Coast rivals, the San Francisco 49ers, in town Sunday for a noon kickoff at the Edward Jones Dome what better time to celebrate the Rams’ 75th anniversary as an NFL franchise. The Rams, who began play in 1937 in Cleveland, will mark the occasion by wearing throwback uniforms from the 1999 Super Bowl championship season ... Meanwhile, Vince Ferragamo and Jeff Wilkins will sign autographs for fans from 10-10.30 a.m....(size: 3.8Kb)
CNN
27 Nov 2012
Story Highlights ... Stacy Revere/Getty Images ... Not entirely ... To wit. ... And there have been other Super-season examples of successful multi-quarterback starting situations as well, with the 1985 New England Patriots (Tony Eason and Steve Grogan), the 1979 Los Angeles Rams (Pat Haden and Vince Ferragamo), the 1980 Oakland Raiders (Dan Pastorini and Jim Plunkett) and 1983 Los Angeles Raiders (Plunkett and Marc Wilson) ... Left at the wrong time ... ....(size: 14.2Kb)
MSNBC
21 Nov 2012
Jeff Graves wanted to build a barn for horses behind his Coto de Caza home. He wound up with a bonus. A 1,600-plant vineyard. His 6.57-acre property had plenty of space for a barn, but the county required clear land around it ... "It all had to be done by hand." ... Advertise . AdChoices ... Former Rams quarterback Vince Ferragamo, who bought a one-acre property in Orange Park Acres, tends to Italian varietals. Ferragamo says he's a hobbyist ... ....(size: 4.3Kb)
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Vince Anthony Ferragamo (born April 24, 1954) is a former professional football player, a quarterback in the National Football League and Canadian Football League.
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Born in Torrance, California, Ferragamo was heavily recruited as an All-American high school quarterback from Phineas Banning High School in Wilmington, where he was the L.A. City Schools MVP. Ferragamo accepted a football scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley. Buried on the quarterback depth chart behind Cal teammate Steve Bartkowski, Ferragamo transferred to top-ranked Nebraska in 1974.[1] As a Cornhusker, he lettered in 1975 and 1976; during his senior season he was All-Big 8 and All-American, and also an Academic All-American. Ferragamo capped off his college career by leading the Huskers to a victory over Texas Tech in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl in the Houston Astrodome.
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He played for the Los Angeles Rams (1977–1980 and 1982–1984), Buffalo Bills (1985) and Green Bay Packers (1985–1986). After leading the 9-7 Rams to road victories over the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1979 NFL Playoffs, Ferragamo started for the Rams in Super Bowl XIV, in which the Rams led after three quarters of play before falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-19.
Ferragamo enjoyed his best statistical season in 1980 in which he threw for 30 touchdowns, tied for second most in the NFL. The Rams again made the playoffs, but were defeated by Dallas, 34-13 in an NFC Wild Card Playoff game.
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Ferragamo played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League for just one season in 1981. He was signed to a large contract by both CFL and NFL standards at the time ($600,000, compared to $250,000 the Rams offered him, and the $47,500 they had paid him for 1980.) However, Ferragamo had a difficult time adjusting to the style of Canadian football. Montreal went on to win only 3 games against 13 losses. He was demoted to backup to Gerry Dattilio in the latter half of the season and then third string quarterback for the final 3 games after Ken Johnson arrived in a trade. Ferragamo's last game in the CFL was a loss to the Ottawa Rough Riders in the Eastern semi-final which he watched from the pressbox. His stats during his one season in Montreal were 175 of 342 passes completed (51.2%) for 2175 yards, with 7 TD passes and 25 interceptions.
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On December 26, 1982, Ferragamo threw for 509 yards in a game against the Chicago Bears, at the time the third highest passing mark in league history behind former Ram Norm Van Brocklin. It was the third time in league history that a quarterback had passed for over 500 yards in a game, the first by Norm Van Brocklin (554 yards) and the second by Y.A. Tittle (505 yards). Subsequent to his return, Ferragamo led the Rams back to the NFL playoffs during the 1983 season behind the running of rookie Eric Dickerson. After beating the favored Cowboys in Irving in the wild card matchup 24-17, Ferragamo and the Rams were drubbed by the defending Super Bowl champion and Super Bowl-bound Washington Redskins by the score of 51-7.
He has been featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated twice, once in 1980 and again in 1981.
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Ferragamo currently owns Touchdown Real Estate in southern California-and is about to launch a private label company, Ferragamo-Migneco Vineyards, featuring fine quality domestic and imported wines. He is also the chairman of the Vince Ferragamo Foundation a charitable organization that focuses on raising donations for children's organizations such as the Special Olympics, the Speech and Language Development Center and the Ronald McDonald House.
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Preston Jackson Dennard (born November 28, 1955 in Cordele, Georgia) is a former professional American football wide receiver in the NFL for the Los Angeles Rams, the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at the University of New Mexico.
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John Frederick "Fred" Dryer (born July 6, 1946 in Hawthorne, California) is an American actor and former football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). Dryer played 13 years in the NFL, playing 176 games, starting 166, and recording 104 career sacks with the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams. Dryer is the only NFL player to score two safeties in one game.
Following his retirement from football, Dryer had a successful career as a film and television actor, notably starring in the series Hunter. His height (6'6" or 1.98 m) and physique was useful for his action roles.
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College career[link]
The son of Charles F. Dryer and Genevieve Nell Clark, Dryer began his football career at Lawndale High School in Lawndale, California, and then attended El Camino Junior College before transferring to San Diego State University (SDSU).
Dryer was inducted to the El Camino C.C. Athletic Hall Of Fame in 1988, as a charter member[1] and was the Athlete of the Year for his 1966 performance on the football field. Dryer was also a 1966 Junior College All-American[2]
During Dryer's junior and senior seasons, in which he lettered both seasons, at San Diego State, the Aztecs had a combined record of 19-1-1. They were the College Division National Champions in both seasons. In 1967 they topped both the Associated Press and United Press International polls as #1. In 1968 San Diego State was voted the champions by UPI and North Dakota State topped the AP poll and thus the two schools shared the College-Division title.[3] Dryer was voted the outstanding defensive lineman on the team and as such was the recipient of the Byron H. Chase Memorial Trophy.[4] One of Dryer's teammates was Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in the first four films of the Rocky series. In 1967 the Aztecs allowed 12.9 points a game on defense, which is still ninth in SDSU history. In 1967 and 1968 the Aztec run defense allowed just 80.1 and 100.1 yards per game, still fourth and fifth, respectively in school annals after nearly forty years.[5]
Dryer was named to the Little All-America team in 1968 since at the time the school was 1-AA. Dryer played in the East-West Shrine Game in San Francisco, the Hula Bowl in Honolulu and the College All-Star Game in Chicago where the college stars played the world champion New York Jets.[6]
In 1988, Dryer was inducted into the San Diego State University Aztec Hall of Fame.[7] In 1997 Dryer received college football's ultimate honor in being voted to the College Football Hall of Fame and is one of only three SDSU Aztecs in the collegiate Hall of Fame. When voted into the San Diego Sports Hall of Fame in 1998, Dryer joined athletes such as Ted Williams, Dan Fouts, Dave Winfield, and Tony Gwynn in receiving the preeminent recognition for a San Diego athlete.
NFL career[link]
Dryer was drafted in the first round of the 1969 NFL Draft by the New York Giants and won a starting job as a rookie. He was the starting right defensive end from 1969 through 1971. He led the team in quarterback sacks each of those three seasons with 8½ in 1969, 12 in 1970 and 8½ in 1971. He was among the defensive leaders in other categories as well. In 1969 he tallied 58 tackles (39 solo), six passes deflected and forced two fumbles and recovered two. The next season Dryer was an alternate to the Pro Bowl but could not play due to a bruised hip. He was Second-team All-NFC after recording 69 tackles (53 solo) four pass deflections, three forced fumbles, while recovering two to go along with his 12 sacks. In 1971 he again led team with 8½ sacks, and totaled 62 tackles (33 solo). Dryer also deflected two passes, forced two more fumbles and recovered two for the third consecutive season.[8]
Dryer was traded to the New England Patriots in February 1972 for three draft choices (a first, second, and sixth), then on draft day of that year he was dealt to the Los Angeles Rams for a first round draft pick and backup defensive end Rick Cash. In his first year with the Rams he backed up left defensive end Jack Youngblood making only four starts but playing in every game despite a broken hand and broken nose. His primary role in 1972 was to come in on likely passing downs and rush the passer. He had 40 tackles (17 solo) and 4½ sacks.
In 1973, Dryer started all 14 games on the right side and became the only NFL player ever to have two safeties in the same game by dumping opposing passers in the end zone twice in the fourth quarter. He ended the season with 10 sacks, 3 forced fumbles and recovered 3 fumbles (all three were second on the top-ranked Rams defense). After the season he was a Second-team All-NFC pick by Pro Football Weekly. He finished the season with 39 tackles (21 solo) s passed knocked down, three forced fumbles and three fumbles recovered.
In 1974 he had 15 sacks, which co-led (with Youngblood) the NFL (unofficially, sacks were not officially recognized by the NFL until 1982) and was voted the Rams Outstanding Defensive Lineman and was named All-Pro and All-NFC. Statistically, he had another solid year versus the run, totaling 49 tackles (34 solo) and two forced fumbles.
Dryer scored his first NFL touchdown in 1975 on a 20-yard interception return against Philadelphia. After scoring his touchdown against the Eagles, Dryer promised that if he ever scored another, he would set his hair on fire in the end zone. Against the Eagles that day, he chose to celebrate by "rolling six", a touchdown celebration where the player scoring rolls the ball like an imaginary pair of dice with some of his teammates looking on. He ended 1975 with 12 sacks, behind only Jack Youngblood and was voted All-NFC. Additionally, Dryer played in the 1975 Pro Bowl, was a Second-team All-Pro selection as well. Statistically, Dryer was excellent against the run with 61 tackles (39 solo) and two passes deflection, two fumbles recovered to go along with the 20 yard TD interception.
Due to rule changes in NFL offensive line Dryer's play started to decline some. Always a small player, the new rules heavily favored larger players. Dryer coped with a 55-tackle, 5-sack season (33 solo). He did deflect two passes and for three fumbles in 1976 which were along the team leaders. In 1977 Dryer adopted a new diet and was winning praises from NFL sportwriters for the start he had. He recorded 35 tackles (28 solo) and 6 sacks. He also knocked down four passes, recovered three fumbles and caused one fumble. The next season, 1978 was much of the same. Dryer was the starting right defensive end on the NFL's #1 defense. Personally, he had 51 tackles (33 solo) and forced two fumbles, recovered three, blocked a kick and blocked one pass on route to a Ram record of 12-4.
He played in Super Bowl XIV when the Rams met the Pittsburgh Steelers after the 1979 season. That season he was honorable mention All-NFC after recording 49 tackles (31 solo) 10 sacks and three forced fumbles and recovered one. Against the New York Giants on October 28, 1979, Dryer recorded a career-high 5 sacks. In 1980 Dryer split time his right defensive end position with third-year player Reggie Doss. They combined for 67 tackles (Dryer 31, 20 solo) and 12 sacks (Dryer 5½, Doss 6½).
Dryer ended his career with 104 career sacks, although since he played prior to 1982 when sacks became an official statistic they are not credited in the NFL record books. Dryer played on a tough Los Angeles Ram defense that during the decade of the 1970s, allowed fewer points, fewer total yards, fewer rushing yards, and sacked more quarterbacks than any other defense during that time-frame.[8]
In January, 1981, Dryer made the cover of Interview magazine, published by Andy Warhol from the late 1960s through the early 1990s and was considered the very essence of "magazine chic". The magazine was noted for the full face Warhol-designed covers that featured prominent newsmakers. Dryer was the first and (probably) only NFL player to make the cover amongst people like Cher, Sting, Truman Capote, John Travolta, Mick Jagger, and many other "A" list celebs and the avant-garde.
In 2003 the NFL Alumni presented Dryer with its Career Achievement Award which is presented to former NFL players "For Getting to the Top of His Field".
Record game[link]
Fred Dryer's record-setting game on October 21, 1973, at Los Angeles was a 24-7 win over Green Bay.
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| Rams | 0 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 24 |
Down 20-7 in the fourth quarter, the Packers found themselves deep in their own territory when Dryer came storming in from the right side of the defense and chased down Green Bay quarterback Scott Hunter, dropping him in the end zone for a safety. On the Packers' following possession near their own goal line, Dryer attacked again. He looped through the middle of the Packer's offensive line and dragged backup quarterback Jim Del Gaizo down for his second safety of the game, setting a new NFL record.
For his efforts, Dryer was named the Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Week.
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- LA - FG Ray 44
- LA - Jackson 46 pass from Hadl (Ray kick)
- GB - B. Smith 23 pass from Lane (Marcol kick)
- LA - FG Ray 40
- LA - L. Smith, 1 run (Ray kick)
- LA - Safety, Dryer tackled Hunter in end zone
- LA - Safety, Dryer tackled Del Gaizo in end zone
Acting career[link]
Prior to the start of his show business career, Dryer flexed his acting muscles when he helped cover Super Bowl IX for SPORT magazine. Fed up with the grandiose and self-important nature of the NFL's championship match, then-editor Dick Schaap hired Dryer and Rams teammate Lance Rentzel for this journalistic assignment. Donning costumes inspired by The Front Page, "Scoops Brannigan" (Dryer) and "Cubby O'Switzer" (Rentzel) peppered players and coaches from both the Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings with questions that ranged from clichéd to downright absurd. This became the inspiration for the eccentricities that surround Media Day at the Super Bowl.[9][10] Dryer also briefly served as a color analyst on CBS's NFL coverage in 1981.
In the early 80's when producers/ creators Glen Charles, Les Charles and James Burrows were developing the soon-to-be hit sitcom, Cheers, Dryer, along with two other actors, was considered for the role of lead character, Sam Malone. Ted Danson ultimately won the role, but Dryer later appeared as sportscaster (and former Red Sox teammate of Sam's) Dave Richards in the episodes "Sam at Eleven", "Old Flames", "Love Thy Neighbor", and "'I' On Sports".
Dryer's best-known acting role came in the 1980s television crime drama Hunter, in which he costarred with Stepfanie Kramer. Dryer also starred in the action-thriller movie Death Before Dishonor as well as Mike Land in the TV series Land's End (21 episodes, 1995–1996). He portrayed legendary[citation needed] DC Comics military hero Sgt. Rock, during his appearance on Justice League. Dryer got married in May 1983 (divorced in 1988) to actress and Playboy centerfold Tracy Vaccaro,[11] who also worked with him on Hunter and Land's End. Together, they have at least one daughter.[11] Dryer still resides in Los Angeles and has his own production company (Fred Dryer Productions).
Fred Dryer is frequently mentioned in season two of Adult Swim's Frisky Dingo as presidential candidate Xander Crews's prospective running mate. There is also a collage of images of him in Simon's room.
In January 2009 Fred Dryer can be seen in a more intense role for cable TV commercial for SMS research company,[12] which obliquely makes reference to his NFL record of two safeties in a game from 1973. Fred Dryer is also now a spokesman for the law service Injury Solutions.[13]
Hunter[link]
Main article: Hunter (U.S. TV series)
References[link]
- ^ "El Camino Community College Hall of Fame Program" (PDF). http://www.elcamino.edu/athletics/docs/2007%20HALL%20OF%20FAME%20PROGRAM.pdf. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^ "J.C. Honor Roll". Long Beach Press-Telegram. 1966-12-08.
- ^ NCAA Division II Football Champions
- ^ 2008 San Diego State University Football Media Guide
- ^ MG 2008 SDSU Media Guide. Page 143.
- ^ 2006 San Diego State Media Guide
- ^ "Helmet Hut.com". Helmet Hut.com. http://www.helmethut.com/Features/DryerHelmets.html. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^ a b Turney, John (January 22, 2001). "So close but...Will Hall of Fame vote be another narrow miss for Youngblood?". Pro Football Weekly website. http://archive.profootballweekly.com/content/archives/features_2000/turney3_012201.asp. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ "Penner, Mike. "Dick Schaap, 67; Sports Journalist" (obituary), ''Los Angeles Times'', Saturday, December 22, 2001". Articles.latimes.com. 2001-12-22. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/dec/22/local/me-17249. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^ "Green, Jerry. "New Orleans Provides Wild Super Bowl Weeks," ''The Detroit News'', Sunday, January 1, 2006". The Detroit News. 2006-01-01. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060101/SPORTS08/60128001. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^ a b "Playmate News". Playboy (Playboy) 55: 143–144. November 2008.
- ^ "KGB.com". Kgbkgb.com. http://www.kgbkgb.com. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^ Injury Solutions.com
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Herbert Jackson Youngblood, III (born January 26, 1950) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a five-time consensus All-Pro and a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Before playing professionally, Youngblood played college football for the University of Florida, and was recognized as an All-American. He is considered among the best players Florida ever produced—a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and one of only five Florida Gators to be named to the Gator Football Ring of Honor.
After retiring as a player in 1985, Youngblood worked in the Rams' front office until 1991. He also worked in the front office of the Sacramento Surge of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1992 to 1993, and the administration of the CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners from 1993 to 1994. He was a vice-president, then president, of the Orlando Predators from 1995 until 1999. From 1999 through 2002, he served as the NFL's liaison for the Arena Football League.[1]
Youngblood has made forays into broadcasting (both radio and television), acting, and business, and has written an autobiography. He was a popular spokesperson for various products, and he has been consistently involved in charity work, starting in college, continuing throughout his NFL career, and remaining so today. Currently, Youngblood serves on the NFLPA Mackey-White Traumatic Brain Injury Committee.[2]
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Early years[link]
Jack Youngblood was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Herbert J. and Kay Youngblood. He has two sisters, Paula and Lynn. Youngblood attended Monticello-Jefferson County High School in Monticello, Florida, graduating in 1967. As an offensive lineman and linebacker, he was a starter on offense and defense and team captain of the state champion Tigers, earning All-State honors in 1966 after recording 70 tackles.[3] He was also All-Big Bend, All-Conference and the Big Bend Linemen of the Year and the Outstanding Lineman for the Tigers that season while leading a defense that shutout seven opponents and allowed ten touchdowns in 12 games, including the state playoffs. He was a four-year letterman in football and also played basketball at M-JC High as well as participating in 4-H, Student Council and Key Club International.
Youngblood was named to Florida's All-Time High school football team by Sports Illustrated in 1989. In November 2007, he was recognized as one of the state of Florida's thirty-three all-time greatest high school football players when he was voted to the Florida High School Athletic Association's All-Century High School football team.[3]
College career[link]
At the University of Florida, Youngblood earned a bachelor's degree in finance, was a brother of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity (Alpha Omega Chapter),[4] and was a three-year varsity letterman for coach Ray Graves and coach Doug Dickey's Florida Gators football teams from 1968 to 1970.[5] Youngblood had entered school at 195 pounds and put on 10 pounds a year through weight-lifting, finishing around 245 pounds.[6] Youngblood and his teammates were part of the testing of what became Gatorade, a beverage created by Doctors Robert Cade and Dana Shires, designed to help Gator athletes who had to practice and play in Central Florida heat. Said Youngblood, "Dr. Cade began experimenting with Gatorade my freshman year. He tried to kill us all! That first stuff was lethal! It was thick, like syrup, and had an aftertaste. Then, it started to look like milk.″[7]
As a freshman Youngblood played defensive end, wearing number 52, for the Gator freshman team. It was his first experience on the defensive line, after playing linebacker in high school. As a sophomore, Youngblood played defensive end and defensive tackle while also handling the kicking chores for the Gators, kicking a career-long 42-yard field goal to provide the three-point winning margin in his first collegiate game which was against Air Force.
In 1969, Youngblood was part of a 9–1–1 Gators team that upset the Tennessee Volunteers in the Gator Bowl in Ray Graves's final game as coach at Florida. Youngblood played a key role in the Gator Bowl recording nine tackles and forcing a fumble.[8] Youngblood first gained national attention after an October 4, 1969, 5-sack performance 21-6 win versus instate rival Florida State University. He set a school record for sacks (14) in 1969 and led the teams' defensive linemen with 66 tackles.
In 1970, Youngblood was voted All-American,[9] while recording 58 tackles and leading the team with 10 sacks to finish his Gator career with 29 quarterback sacks. Additionally, he was a finalist for the Outland Trophy following the 1970 season[10] and was voted the 1970 SEC lineman of the year. Youngblood was also named to the SEC All-Conference team in 1970, which ended three winning seasons while at Florida. He was also the 1970 recipient of Florida's Fergie Ferguson Award, which goes to the senior who displays outstanding leadership, character, and courage.[11] His performance in the Florida–Georgia rivalry earned him a spot in the Florida–Georgia Game Hall of Fame as well.[12][13] In the 1970 edition of the game, Florida trailed Georgia by seven points and the Georgia offense had driven to Florida's 1-yard line, Youngblood stopped a Georgia running back short of the goal line and forced him to fumble and then recovered the loose ball beginning a rally that gained a come-from-behind 24–17 victory.[14]
Some regard Youngblood, who was considered to be an excellent pass rusher,[15][16] as the best defensive lineman in Gators history as well as one of the top five players in the University of Florida's football program.[17] When Time magazine chose him for their 1970 All-America Team, it said of Youngblood: "Deceptively fast for his size, he reads screens and swing passes so adroitly that he intimidates quarterbacks by his mere presence."[18] His coach Doug Dickey told The Sporting News, “He is difficult to move when you run at him, has the speed an agility to pursue down the line of scrimmage, and the strength and quickness to rush the passer”. One experienced Florida writer still agrees stating, “Youngblood has to be viewed as one of the top five Gators ever. A phenomenal pass rusher″.[16]
Youngblood graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1972.
NFL career[link]
Youngblood was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the first round of the 1971 NFL Draft. He was the 20th overall pick in that draft and signed a 3-year $105,000 contract including a $30,000 signing bonus.[19] That season he backed up Deacon Jones at left defensive end and started four games when Jones was sidelined with a severely sprained arch. He was named All-Rookie by Football Digest and after the season Jones was traded to the San Diego Chargers. In 1972 the left defensive end position was Youngblood's as he led the Rams defensive linemen in tackles with 70, and started 11 of the 14 games he played, recording six sacks.
In 1973 Youngblood was a Second-team All-pro selection and went to the first of his seven Pro Bowls and led the Rams with 16½ sacks. The Ram defense led the NFL in fewest yards allowed and fewest rushing yards. He was voted the Rams defensive lineman of the year by the Rams Alumni Association. Beginning in the 1973 season, the Rams added the unrelated Jim Youngblood to its roster, so from that time on, both Youngbloods had the unique distinction of having their entire name on the back of their jerseys, the given name appearing above the family name. The following year, 1974, the Rams again led the NFL in rushing defense and Youngblood led the Rams with 15 sacks while being voted a consensus First-team All-Pro. The Rams advanced to the NFC Championship game, losing 14-10 to the Minnesota Vikings.
Youngblood was honored as the NFC Defensive Player of the Year by United Press International in 1975 and Pro Football Weekly named Youngblood the NFL defensive lineman of the year. For the third consecutive season Youngblood led the Rams in sacks (15) and was a consensus All-pro again, repeating his 1974 honor. In a December, 1975, 35-23 playoff win over the St. Louis Cardinals, Youngblood pass-rushed Cardinals offensive lineman Dan Dierdorf, penetrated into the backfield, then tipped and intercepted a pass by Jim Hart, returning the interception 47 yards for a touchdown. Later in the game, Youngblood forced a fumble that was recovered by teammate Fred Dryer, blocked an extra point attempt, and sacked Hart to stop a Cardinals drive.[20][21]
"I'd love to watch Jack Youngblood play. His tan arms hanging out of his sleeveless jersey, he'd put those pipes on the ground, and even at 240 pounds, he would show great moves and natural strength for an undersized player. He was extremely quick, had underrated strength, and he got great leverage against the tackles.″
ESPN analyst Sean Salisbury[22]
Youngblood repeated his NFC Defensive Player of the Year Award in 1976 while co-leading the Rams in sacks with 14½ and being a consensus First-team All-pro for the third straight season. The following year, 1977, Youngblood was voted to his fifth consecutive Pro Bowl and a consensus All-NFC selection and Second-team All-pro while leading the Rams in sacks for the fifth straight season. In 1978 the Rams led the NFL in total defense and Youngblood was a consensus First-team All-Pro for the fourth time in five years.
One of the athletic feats for which Youngblood is best known, is that of playing the entire 1979 playoffs, including Super Bowl XIV, with a fractured left fibula.[23] He also played in the 1980 Pro Bowl with the injured leg, a week after the Super Bowl.[24] In the playoffs, Youngblood sacked Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach near the sideline in the waning moments of the divisional playoff game versus the Cowboys.[25] Playing with the fractured leg was noted by Sports Illustrated in their Top 10 list of athletes playing in pain.[26] For that and other achievements Jack was dubbed the “John Wayne of football” by Jim Hanifan and echoed by Hall of Fame coach John Madden.[27] The NFL Network series NFL Top 10 selected Youngblood's performance in the 1979 playoffs as top on its list of the “Gutsiest Performances″ of all-time.[28]
For the 1979 season Youngblood had a career-high 18 sacks[29] and was a consensus First-team All-pro for the fifth time. He was voted to his seventh consecutive Pro Bowl. In 1980 he was Second-team All-pro and First-team All-NFC while leading the Rams with 11½ sacks. In 1981 Jack led the Rams with 12½ sacks and was the Rams outstanding defensive lineman. In the off-season, prior to the 1981 season, Jack had emergency surgery to remove a hot-dog sized blood clot from under his left arm. It was a result of repeated trauma to a nerve in his arm that blocked the flow of blood.[30] Despite the broken leg and numerous other injuries, Youngblood played in 201 consecutive games, a Rams team record; and only missed 1 game in his 14-year NFL career. He played in seven straight Pro Bowls, 5 NFC Championships, and one Super Bowl. He was also the Rams defensive captain from 1977 through 1984 and was voted the Dan Reeves award 3 times, which is awarded to the team's MVP. He had 151½ career sacks and led the Rams in sacks nine times despite playing first in assistant Coach Ray Malavasi's stop-the-run-first defensive scheme and then in his final two seasons in Defensive Coordinator Fritz Shurmer's 3-4 two-gap scheme[31] which limited some pass rush opportunities to make sure the opponent's running game was handled.[32]
Youngblood faced a challenge in 1983 when the Rams adopted Shurmer's 3-4 defense. Critics thought Youngblood might be too small to play that position, yet he performed in it well (recording 10½ sacks in 1983 and 9½ sacks in 1984 while Rams were among the NFL's best defenses at stopping the run) despite being considered undersized.[30] Among the standout games in Youngblood's final two seasons were the opening game of the 1983 season, against the New York Giants in which Youngblood recorded two sacks; and the 1983 season finale against the New Orleans Saints. In the Saints game Youngblood recorded 10 tackles, two sacks, recorded a safety and was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year by Pro Football Weekly for the effort.[33] In Week 5 of 1984 against the New York Giants, Youngblood recorded two sacks, drew three holding calls and was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week by the NFL.[34] Then, in Week 10, against the St. Louis Cardinals, Jack dominated the game sacking Neil Lomax three times and drawing three holding calls, and blocking a potential game-tying field goal on the game's final play to preserve a 16-13 Rams win.[35]
His streak of consecutive games played ended in Week 15 of the 1984 season, when Youngblood had to sit out his first football game since being a collegiate player in 1970. He had suffered a ruptured disc in his lower back two weeks earlier. Despite the injury, he returned for the season finale against the 49ers and the playoffs.[36] He attributed his ability to play to a series of back adjustments that allowed him more freedom of movement, even though team doctors told Youngblood he was out for the season and needed surgery.[37] He was voted the Rams' recipient of the 1984 Ed Block Courage Award[38] by “representing everything that is positive about professional football and serving as an inspiration in their locker rooms being a positive role model in his communities”.
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Youngblood at the Hall of Fame Gold Jacket Dinner, 2001.
When Youngblood retired on August 27, 1985, he asked his career to be remembered for “dignity, integrity, respect and pride″.[39]
Seasonal Sack Totals: 1971 (3), 1972 (6), 1973 (16½), 1974 (15), 1975 (15), 1976 (14½), 1977 (8½), 1978 (7), 1979 (18), 1980 (11⅓), 1981 (12½), 1982 (4), 1983 (10½), 1984 (9½), Career Total (151½)
Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams Records[link]
- Most Consecutive Games Played (201)
- Most Career Sacks in the Playoffs (8.5)
- Most Playoff Starts (17)
- Most Career Safeties—tied (2)
- 2nd Most Career Sacks (151.5)
- 2nd most Career Blocked Kicks (8)
Post-NFL career[link]
Acting and broadcasting[link]
Youngblood appeared in two television movies: C.A.T. Squad in 1986 and C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf in 1988. In the telefilms Youngblood played a Secret Service agent in the "Counter Assault Technical Squad" named John Sommers who was the “best weapons and munitions man in the business″ and who was a fine secret service agent but hated big cities like Washington D.C. and New York and was thus banished to Alaska. In the plot-line of the movies "John Sommers" was a member of the Air Force Reserve who piloted SR-71 spyplane.[40] In these films Youngblood starred along with Joe Cortese,[41] Steve James,[42] and Deborah Van Valkenburgh.[43] For "Python Wolf" he was nominated for an Emmy for 'Best Supporting Actor'.[44]
Both films were directed by William Friedkin who is most noted for directing The Exorcist, The French Connection, and The Boys in the Band.[45]
Youngblood was a reporter and co-host for ESPN's NFL GameDay show in 1985 and 1986, alongside Chris Berman and was succeeded by current co-host, Tom Jackson in 1987. In 1988 he auditioned for the NFL on CBS's NFL Today along with Dick Butkus, Lyle Alzado, and Gary Fencik, with Butkus being hired to fill the co-host slot. Youngblood was also a regular guest on ESPN programs Star-Shot (1988), Sportslook (1984, 1986, 1988) and Great Outdoors (1989) programs.
Youngblood was a radio analyst for the Los Angeles Rams from 1987–1991, the Sacramento Surge in 1992, and a television analyst for the Sacramento Gold Miners in 1993.
In 2000, Youngblood was hired as the co-host for Wal-Mart's Great Outdoors (with Bert Jones) and served in that capacity through 2003. Wal-Mart's Great Outdoors was telecast 52 weeks a year and was a mainstay on ESPN's popular Saturday morning outdoors programming block, drawing impressive ratings throughout its 10-year history.[46]
Autobiography[link]
In 1988, Youngblood authored (with Joel Engel) his autobiography, Blood. The book outlined Youngblood's drive and passion for professional football and reviewed his career, his injuries, his successes, and his failures on the football field. The book recounts when, between the 1973 and 1974 seasons, Youngblood traveled to Logan, Utah, to help Rams teammates Merlin and Phil Olsen with their summer football camp. An altercation in the parking lot of a local pub resulted in Youngblood having a .44 pistol stuck in his eye and the trigger pulled and fortunately the chamber was empty, although other chambers were not. A cut eyelid was the only injury he sustained. After initially pleading innocent, the assailant later pled guilty and received a one-year suspended sentence.[47] The book was favorably reviewed by Publishers Weekly as “an unusual sports book″.[48]
Football administration[link]
After his retirement, Youngblood worked in player relations and marketing for the Rams from 1985–90 and served as the Rams' color analyst for the Rams Radio Network from 1986-1991.[49][50] Youngblood moved to the World League of American Football as the Director of Marketing for the Sacramento Surge in 1991 (although he remained as Rams color announcer for the 1991 season), during which time the Surge won the 1992 World Bowl.[51] He moved to the Sacramento Gold Miners of the Canadian Football League in 1993. He also served as a color analyst for the both the Surge and the Gold Miners radio networks and hosted a sports radio talk show at KHTK-AM 1140 in Sacramento, California, when that station became a sports format station in 1994.[52][53][54]
In 1995, he returned to his native Florida as Vice President and General Manager, then later as President, of the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League.[52] One of his major projects with the Predators was taking the team a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In 1998, Youngblood's final year with the team, the club won its first Arena League championship, defeating the favored Tampa Bay Storm. In 1999 he began to work for the AFL office as a liaison to the National Football League and served as a special consultant to the Arena Football League and arenafootball2.[55]
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Youngblood at the Throwback Bowl, 1997.
Business[link]
Youngblood was a division president of Dave Liles Ethanol Fuels,[56] which produces a fuel additive that purports to boost octane, clean fuel systems, and help the environment by reducing engine emissions and being completely biodegradable.[57] He also owns and maintains a farm in his native North Florida, in which he currently raises pine trees and where he raised cattle until 2002.[58]
During his NFL career Youngblood partnered with L.A. Rams teammate Larry Brooks to open "The Wild Bunch" in 1980, a western clothing store that featured high-end western wear, including cowboy boots, cowboy hats, silver belt buckles, jeans, and all else country. Additionally, while still active with the Rams Youngblood worked with BankAmericard, in a public relations capacity.[59] He also owned and operated the South Coast Club in Huntington Beach, California, during his career.[60]
Additionally, some of the sponsorships and advertising ventures Youngblood was involved with were a Miller Lite TV commercial in 1985 and Honda Power machines in 1985.[61] He also had print ads for Pro Tron Weights, regional ad, 1984, Dan Post Handcrafted Boots, national print-ad 1986, Cal-Gym, national print-ad, 1986, and was a national spokesman for Protatonin in 2001.[62][63] In the mid-1980s he also modeled Munsingwear briefs in a series of magazine and billboard ads.[64] In the mid-1970s Jack did television commercials and print-ads for In-N-Out Burger, a California-based fast food chain.
Continuing popularity[link]
During his career Youngblood gained a loyal following which seems to continue through today. In July, 2006, a game-used Jack Youngblood jersey sold for $6565 in an online auction.[65] Fox News' Mike Straka listed Youngblood as having one of the NFL's “Great names″.[66] In 2007 Sports Illustrated named Youngblood the greatest professional athlete to wear the uniform number 85.[67] Youngblood was also given the same honor in the 2004 book Right on the Numbers by Nino Frostino,[68] and the Best Athletes by the Number blog.[69] One of Youngblood's biggest fans, David G. Lewber, died on June 28, 2007. Mr. Lewber was buried in his autographed Jack Youngblood jersey a week later on July 3, 2007.[70]
In October, 2011, D.W. Cooper released "Because It Was Sunday" a biography about Youngblood's playing career.[71]
Awards and honors[link]
Collegiate[link]
“My sophomore year, we were in Tallahassee and I ran a reverse very early in the game, and I remember being nailed by Jack Youngblood. I remember watching the ball being pitched to me and thinking, when the ball was about halfway, that it was kind of race to see whether he was going to get to the ball first or me. He was foaming at the mouth. I still have nightmares from the hit he gave me.″
Barry Smith, Florida State University wide receiver[72]
Youngblood was an All-America selection in 1970, as well as being the SEC Lineman of the Year, All-SEC, and a finalist for the Outland Trophy. After his college career, Youngblood played in the Senior Bowl and recorded four sacks.[73] He was named the Outstanding Lineman of the Game and in 1989 he was voted into the Senior Bowl Hall of Fame.[74] Additionally he was voted a member of the 50th Anniversary Senior Bowl All-Time Team in 1999.[75]
For his achievements he was selected to the All-Time SEC team in 1983. He was also voted to the All-SEC Quarter-Century Team (1950–74) as well as being voted to the 25-year All-SEC teams which spanned from the 1961 through the 1985 seasons.[76] He was also voted best Defensive end in SEC for the years 1960-85.[77] Additionally, he was voted to the SEC All-Decade team for the 1970s.[78] In 1995, Youngblood was voted one of the SEC Football Legends and was presented at the SEC championship game in Atlanta, Georgia.[79]
Youngblood, who is regarded by some as the best defensive end in Gators history,[14][17] was named to the All-time Florida Gators team in 1983 and in 1999 he was voted to the Florida Gator All-Century Team in in 2006 he was named to the 100-year Anniversary Gator Team.[14] In 1975, Youngblood was voted to the Florida Sports Hall of Fame which features great athletes who played college or professional athletics and have a Florida connection.[80] In 2001, he was elected to the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame. Five years later, in 2006, Youngblood was among the first four Gator legends to be inducted into the Florida Football Ring of Honor, alongside Steve Spurrier, Danny Wuerffel, and Emmitt Smith.[14]
In 1992, Youngblood was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He was also selected to the FWAA 1969-1994 All-America Team with players like Lawrence Taylor, Jerry Rice, John Elway, Tony Dorsett, Ronnie Lott, and Jack Tatum.[81] In 1999, he was named to the Sports Illustrated NCAA Football All-Century Team as one of only six defensive ends named to the squad.[82]
He was named by one SEC publication as the Top All-Time SEC Defensive of All-Time.[83] Youngblood was also named by the Birmingham News as one of the Top 10 defensive lineman in SEC history,[84] ranking with SEC greats as Reggie White, Doug Atkins, and Bill Stanfill. In addition, he is one of the three the top defensive lineman in history of the SEC, making the 75th Anniversary All-SEC Team in 2007 as determinded by votes of SEC fans.[85]
National Football League[link]
Youngblood was elected to NFL All-Pro teams five times (1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979) during his 14 years with the Rams and was an All-NFC selection seven times (1974–80). In addition, Youngblood was a second-team All-Pro in 1973, 1977, and 1980 and was second-team All-NFC in 1973 and 1984. He was also named to seven Pro Bowls and was a first alternate to the game in 1984, his final season. Youngblood was also on the 1984 All-Madden team and was chosen by John Madden as the player who most exemplified the All-Madden team.[86]
Youngblood is also a member of the Los Angeles Rams' 50th Anniversary Team (1985), and the Rams All-Century Team chosen after the 1999 season. In October 2001 he was honored in the St. Louis Rams Ring of Fame, along with Jackie Slater.[87] Youngblood was voted the Rams' Outstanding Defensive Linemen by the Rams' Alumni nine times (1973, 1975–76, 1978–81, and 1983–84).
Youngblood, in 1987, was voted to the Orange County (California) Sports Hall of Fame along with Pat McCormick, Ann Meyers and Cap Sheue.[88] Four years earlier Youngblood was recognized as the 1983 Orange County Sportsman of the Year by the Orange County Youth Sports Foundation. Other notable honorees have been Jim Nantz, Peter Ueberroth, John McKay, Bill Walsh, and Pete Carroll.[89][90]
Youngblood played in 201 consecutive games, a Rams team record; he only missed one game in his 14-year NFL career. He was also the Rams' defensive captain from 1977 through 1984 and was voted the recipient Dan Reeves award three times, which is awarded to the team's most valuable player. He had 151.5 career sacks and led the Rams in sacks nine times[91] despite playing first in assistant coach Ray Malavasi's stop-the-run-first defensive scheme and then in his final two seasons in defensive coordinator Fritz Shurmer's 3-4 two-gap scheme which limited some pass rush opportunities to make sure the opponent's running game was handled. His highest single-season sack total was 18 in 1979.
He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001 along with Ron Yary, Lynn Swann, Jackie Slater, Mike Munchak, Marv Levy, and Nick Buoniconti and inducted in August in Canton, Ohio.[92] Youngblood echoed his post-retirement sentiments in his Hall of Fame acceptance speech by stating, “I didn't sack the quarterback every time I rushed the passer. I didn't make every tackle for a loss. I guess — no one could. But, it wasn't because I didn't have the passion to, the desire to. I hope that showed”.[93]
“Jack Youngblood was a terror. He had a lot of heart; he played hard, he played tough, and he was as quick as a hiccup. He was on the small side but he had great pass rush moves, just a hellacious player.″
Youngblood's style of play and perceived ability to play hurt brought many notations in NFL lore. In 1996 NFL Films named him to their list of the 100 Toughest Players of All-Time and in 2006 NFL writer Neil Reynolds featured Youngblood in his 2006 book "Pain Gang,"[95] in which Reynolds names Youngblood as one of the 50 Toughest players of All-Time. In addition, Blitz magazine, The Sporting News, Football Digest, and Sport magazine have singled Youngblood out as one of the toughest and one of the hardest hitting players of all-time. He was named by Yahoo! writer Charles Robinson as the best-ever player taken in the 20th slot of the 1st round of the NFL draft calling Youngblood “the essence of today's defensive end——a mixture of strength, toughness and speed that few ends boasted in the 1970s.”[96] In 2000, Sports Illustrated ranked Youngblood as #4 in its list of the greatest pass rushers of all-time, behind only Deacon Jones, Reggie White and Lawrence Taylor.[97]
During his career, Jack won the respect of both teammates and opponents. Dan Dierdorf, a Hall of Fame tackle, said that Youngblood was “by far the toughest opponent I faced in my career”,[98] a thought echoed by Viking Hall of Fame tackle Ron Yary who said, “There wasn't anybody who was tougher to block than Jack”.[99] Other NFL greats such as Hall of Fame tackles Bob Brown[100] and Rayfield Wright,[101] rank Jack among the top players they faced.[94] Opposing quarterbacks also ranked Youngblood highly, with two of them, Fran Tarkenton and Roger Staubach, stating that Jack was the top defensive lineman they faced in their careers.[94] Hall of Fame defensive tackle Merlin Olsen paid Youngblood the highest compliment by stating that Jack was the “perfect defensive end″.[102] Running backs also entered the chorus, “I remember bouncing off Jack Youngblood and it was just like a pillar of strength over there on the defense,” Rocky Bleier recalled. “Jack played hurt, he played tough, and he was a great opponent.”[103]
To all the praise, Youngblood responded, “I don't consider myself tough, I consider myself a nut for some of the things I did”.[104] Youngblood concluded, “I wasn’t the biggest guy, I certainly wasn’t the strongest and I wasn’t the fastest either. But I think one of my biggest assets was that I had an undeniable determination to be the best that has ever put his hand on the ground, I had a genuine desire to be great.”[105]
Charitable activities[link]
While at the University of Florida, Youngblood was involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes while also speaking to youth groups and raising funds for needy children—one such event was a 57-mile bicycle ride he organized which intended to send disadvantaged youth to a summer camp.[106] Youngblood was involved in the 1974 NFL-USO tour to Vietnam and Southeast Asia. In 1977, Youngblood was the chairman of the Los Angeles-area "Right to Read" program and active in the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation. The same year, he was the United Way spokesman for the Rams and was the club's Man of the Year nominee in 1975 and 1983. In 1986 He participated the Hands Across America, an event to end hunger in the United States. Other NFL stars including Walter Payton and Tony Dorsett were also in the nation-wide hand-holding line. In his final 13 years (1979–1991) in Los Angeles, Youngblood sponsored a celebrity golf tournament for the John Tracy Clinic for Deaf Children,[107] and was active with programs at the Children's Hospital for Orange County. He was named the Orange County "Sportsman of the Year" by the hospital in 1987.
Since 2001, Youngblood has been the St. Louis Rams' host for the Taste of the NFL charity event,[108] a dinner held annually at the Super Bowl to raise funds for Feeding America-The Nation's Foodbank Network.[109] In April, 2007, Youngblood was inducted into the National Football League Alumni Association’s prestigious Order of the Leather Helmet, which is the highest award for the NFL Alumni given to those “who make a lasting impression on the game”.[110]
Throughout his NFL career and after Youngblood has been a skilled public speaker being sought after by corporate, athletic, and Christian groups due to his activity and success in those arenas. He also attends hunting, fishing and golf outings when associated with a good cause.[111] He also is active in the Orlando chapter of Young Life, a nationwide organization[112] whose goals include attempting to mentor young men and women in the Christian faith.[112] Jack's wife, Barbara Youngblood, serves on the Executive Committee for Young Life for the Orlando Chapter.
Youngblood serves on the Honorary Advisory Board of the St. Louis Rams[113] along with notables like Bill Cosby, August A. Busch III, Jonathan Winters, Dick Gephardt, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Stan Musial, Maxine Waters, Dr. Toby Freedman, et al. Former members of the Rams Advisory Board, created in 1981, include, Lord David Westbury, former Ram and Evangelist Rosey Grier, Maureen Reagan, Henry Mancini, Bob Hope, Danny Thomas, Jane Upton Bell, former President Gerald Ford among others.
Youngblood is also involved in helping former NFL players in need by supporting the Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund (GGAF). The Gridiron Greats sponsors golf tournaments, autograph signings, memorabilia auctions, clay pigeon shoots and dinners to raise funds for retired players.[114][115][116]
See also[link]
- 1970 College Football All-America Team
- Florida Gators
- Florida Gators football, 1960–1969
- Florida Gators football, 1970–1979
- List of Alpha Tau Omega brothers
- List of College Football Hall of Fame inductees (players, A–K)
- List of College Football Hall of Fame inductees (players, L–Z)
- List of Florida Gators football players
- List of Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees
- List of St. Louis Rams awards
- List of St. Louis Rams first-round draft picks
- List of St. Louis Rams players
- List of University of Florida alumni
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| Name | Youngblood, Jack |
| Alternative names | Youngblood, Herbert Jackson, III; Youngblood, H. Jackson, III |
| Short description | All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive end, All-Pro, Pro Bowl selection, Pro Football Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of Fame |
| Date of birth | January 26, 1950 |
| Place of birth | Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
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Roman Ildonzo Gabriel, Jr. (born August 5, 1940 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is a former American football player. The son of a Filipino immigrant, he was the first Asian-American to start as an NFL quarterback and is considered by many to have been one of the best players at that position during the late 1960s and early 70s.
Gabriel attended and played high school football at New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. He went on to star for the North Carolina State football team, and played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles.
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College career[link]
A two-time All-American and two-time ACC Player of the Year (1960–61), Gabriel starred at quarterback for North Carolina State University in the early 1960s and finished his career holding virtually every Wolfpack passing record. An academic All-American, Gabriel saw his jersey retired and presented to him by North Carolina governor Terry Sanford on Jan. 20, 1962, at half-time of an NC State-Maryland basketball game in Reynolds Coliseum. As captain of his team, Gabriel set 22 school and nine conference football records. He threw for 2,961 yards and 19 touchdowns.
Known for his arm strength, he also played baseball and was voted the best amateur athlete in the Carolinas. In a three-year career he passed for 20 touchdowns and ran for 15. The Atlantic Coast Conference’s 50th Anniversary Football Team was announced in 2003 and Gabriel was among the top 50 players in the history of the ACC to be listed.[1] Gabriel was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989.
Gabriel was the number one 1962 AFL Draft pick, chosen by the Oakland Raiders, and was the number 2 1962 NFL Draft pick, selected by the Los Angeles Rams. Gabriel signed with the Rams and went on to a distinguished professional career.
Professional career[link]
NFL career[link]
Gabriel wore the number 18 with the Rams and the number 5 with the Eagles. In the professional ranks Gabriel went on to play 16 seasons in the NFL, splitting time with the Los Angeles Rams (1962–72) and the Philadelphia Eagles (1973–77). He was awarded the NFL Most Valuable Player Award in 1969 and earned Pro Bowl spots in 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1973. When he retired, he ranked as the Rams' all-time passing leader with 22,223 yards and 154 touchdowns (1,705 com./3,313 att.) and threw for 7,221 yards and 45 touchdowns (661 com./1,185 att.) with the Eagles. In 1973 he led the NFL with 3,219 yards and 23 touchdown passes, for which he was awarded the NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award. As of the end of the 2009 NFL season, he still holds the Rams' career records for touchdown passes (154), passes attempted (3,313), and wins by a starting quarterback (74).
From 1962 through 1965, Gabriel had a difficult time securing a starting quarterback job. Ram coaches gave Zeke Bratkowski or Bill Munson the nod over Gabriel. However, due to other quarterbacks slumping or being injured, Gabriel did get to start 23 games from 1962 through 1965. The Rams record in those games was 11 wins, 11 losses, and one tie. Although his record as a starter was average, the other Rams quarterbacks who started the other 32 games combined record was only three wins, 27 losses and two ties. Gabriel's significant wins include a 1965 victory to beat the eventual Champion Green Bay Packers and the 11-3 Cleveland Browns.
When George Allen took over for Harland Svare to become to coach the Rams in 1966, one of his first moves was to make Gabriel the #1 starter. Gabriel started all 14 games and the Rams went 8-6, their first winning season since 1958. In 1967 the Rams went 11-1-2 and made the playoffs as NFL Coastal Division champions. Gabriel was named the AP Offensive Player of the Week the last two weeks of the season. In week 13, needing a win to keep their playoff hopes alive, Gabriel was 20 for 36 with 3 touchdowns (including the game winner in the last minute) in a 27-24 come from behind win over the defending champion Green Bay Packers. The next week, in a game against the Baltimore Colts that would decide the division title, Gabriel completed 18 of 22 passes with 3 touchdowns as the Rams won 34-10. The 1967 Rams finished as the highest scoring team in the NFL, but were eliminated from the playoffs by the Packers 28-7. Gabriel threw for 2,779 yards and 25 touchdowns and was a Second-team All-Pro and a Pro Bowler.
The following season they were in another neck and neck battle for the Coastal Division title with the Colts. Going into the 13th game of the season, the Rams needed a win to stay within one-half game of the Colts, who would be coming to Los Angeles the following week for the season finale. However, the Rams took a 17-16 loss to the Chicago Bears.
In 1969 the Rams opened the season with an 11-game winning streak (still a team record), before suffering their first loss to the 10-1 Minnesota Vikings in Los Angeles by a score of 20-13. With the division clinched and the undefeated record gone, coach Allen decided to rest many of his starters and the Rams lost their last two games to finish 11-3. In a rematch with the Vikings in the playoffs in Minnesota, the Rams lost, 23-20. For the season, Gabriel threw 24 touchdowns and only seven interceptions and was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player by the AP and NEA, the Player of the Year by the UPI and was voted All-Pro and to the Pro Bowl.
In 1970, the league realigned, putting the Rams in contention with the San Francisco 49ers for the new NFC West Division title. After an upset loss at home to the lowly New York Jets (who were without the injured Joe Namath) in which Gabriel threw 3 interceptions, the Rams won 3 straight, including a crucial 30-13 win of the 49ers to take over first place. But a 28-23 week 13 loss to the Detroit Lions in the first Monday night football game in L.A. (despite over 300 yards passing from Gabriel), put the Rams back in 2nd place and left them 1/2 game behind the Lions for the wild card playoff spot, but they were edged out for a playoff berth.
In 1971, the veteran Rams began to show their age and Gabriel missed parts of every game due to knee and shoulder injuries. In addition, coach George Allen left for the Redskins after a long running dispute with general manager Dan Reeves. Still, the Rams, despite playing the league's toughest schedule, faced almost the same situation as in 1970. After falling behind the 49ers in week 7, they rallied back to take the division lead going into another week 13 Monday night game in L.A. This time, the opponent was George Allen's Redskins. After falling behind 31-10, Gabriel led the Rams back to within 31-24 and was driving to a possible tying score when he was intercepted; it was returned for a touchdown and the Redskins won. Once again, the Rams fell into 2nd place behind the 49ers and behind the Redskins for the wild card berth. Despite winning in Pittsburgh in week 14, the 49ers came from behind to beat the Lions, 31-27 and win the division.
In 1972, Gabriel's knee and shoulder injury problems got worse. After making 89 consecutive starts over eight seasons,[2] he missed 2 games and lost playing time in all 12 others. Still, after a Monday night win in San Francisco in week 12, the Rams regained 1st place. But losses to the Cardinals and Lions in the final two weeks doomed their season.
After the 1972 season, the Rams hired Chuck Knox as their new coach, and obtained John Hadl to be quarterback. Gabriel was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1973. Gabriel went to a 2-11-1 Eagle team and turned them around to a 5-8-1 team. Gabriel was voted to the Pro Bowl for the fourth time and was voted the "Comeback player of the Year" by Pro Football Weekly. For the 1973 Season Gabriel led the Eagles with 270 completions, 460 attempts and 3,219 yards and 23 touchdowns (all league highs) as the Eagles offense was the most prolific passing game in the NFL.
Gabriel played though 1977 but his final two years were in a backup role. In his career he had a winning record of 86-64-7 and passes for over 29,000 yards and 201 touchdowns. He is the only quarterback from his era to still rank high in the "lowest interception percentage" category in NFL passing statistics.
World League of American Football (WLAF) coaching career[link]
He was the head coach of the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks of the World League of American Football, becoming the only coach to have a perfect losing season (0-10), in the inaugural season of 1991-1992. The team disbanded shortly thereafter.
Acting career[link]
Gabriel had a brief career in movies, playing a prison guard in Otto Preminger's 1968 spoof Skidoo and an American Indian named "Blue Boy" in the 1969 John Wayne film The Undefeated. Gabriel's dark complexion gave rise to a popular belief that he may really be a Native American[by whom?], but this is not the case; he is actually Filipino American on his father's side and Irish-American on his mother's. Gabriel had previously appeared as a headhunter in the November 14, 1966 "Topsy-Turvey" episode of CBS' Gilligan's Island.
Personal life[link]
During his years with the Rams, Gabriel co-owned two Volkswagen dealerships in the South Bay area of Los Angeles with teammate Merlin Olsen. After retirement from pro football in 1977, Gabriel went into broadcasting as a color commentator for CBS television and, later, Carolina Panthers radio. Committed to charity work in his home of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, he has raised over $5 million for charity through RG Sports Connection trust through which he promoted celebrity golf tournaments for various charities - multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, leukemia, the blind, the Special Olympics and the Salvation Army.
Gabriel was married to:
- Lisa Katolin (29 October 1980–2005)(ANNULMENT) 1 child Amber Noel
- Tedra Bidwell (29 January 1972 - 6 August 1980) (divorced) 1 child Brandon
- Suzanne Horton (1960–1971) (divorced) 3 Children: Roman III, Ram Allen, Rory Jay
Notes[link]
Gabriel was the last football coach at Cal Poly Pomona, where from 1980 to 1982 his teams compiled a 11-33 record.[3]
Awards[link]
- 1973 -NFL Comeback Player of the Year
- 1969- NFL Most Valuable Player Award, AP, UPI, NEA, and the Bert Bell MVP Trophy (Maxwell Club)
- 1970 - Pro Bowl MVP
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ ACC.com
- ^ Favre above the pain
- ^ "Bronco Golf Classic Raises $27,000 For Scholarships". California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Archived from the original on 2008-05-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20080502172827/http://www.csupomona.edu/~athletic/Events/. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
External links[link]
- Roman Gabriel, 1969 NFL MVP
- Roman Gabriel's NFL Statistics
- Roman Gabriel at the Internet Movie Database
- Article about Roman Gabriel
- Eagles article on Roman Gabriel
- Gallery of Roman Gabriel football cards
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