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Sammy Baugh
Full name: Samuel Adrian Baugh
Football legend Slingin' Sammy Baugh played for Texas Christian University (TCU) and was with the Washington Redskins from 1937-1952. Les Adams chatted with Texan Sammy Baugh for a 1974 issue of the late Bob Malcomson's Those Enduring Matinee Idols, a wonderful publication about the sound era cliffhanger. For those of you who have TEMI, the interview is in Chapter 26, Volume 3, Number 6. You'll find the complete interview on the subsequent webpages.
Les adds:
"This is an interview I did with Baugh in the 70's. I've seem him many times since --- I first met him when he was coaching Hardin-Simmons in Abilene. Most of his KING OF THE TEXAS RANGERS thoughts are here.
While Tom Steele did double him in a lot of shots, the guy who slid down the wire from the top of the oil derrick was Dave Sharpe. William Witney and Tom Steele (on separate occasions) told me that Baugh was as fine a rider and horseman as they had seen.
He has seen the serial complete since the interview as I took him a tape a few years later, but as mentioned in the interview he had only seen pieces of it over the years. One time was when he had the Hardin-Simmons University team in Oklahoma playing Tulsa. A couple of his players came knocking on his door at the hotel with the news that he was in a movie on television they were watching in their room. He said they were so impressed he didn't bother telling them that wasn't him doing most of that jumping and fighting.
Several tidbits: He was certainly taken with Pauline Moore ... more so than what I
used, but in a nice way. Sportswriter Grantland Rice, mentioned in the interview, was the father of Columbia/MGM actress Florence Rice. The Bill Saal footnoted on the last page is the "S" in Ken Maynard's KBS WorldWide films."
 Above, Pauline Moore and Baugh.
 Above, Sammy comes to the aid of Duncan Renaldo.
 (Courtesy of Les Adams)
Above from L-to-R are Kermit Maynard, Baugh, Duncan Renaldo, Howard Hughes and Joseph Forte.
 (Courtesy of Les Adams)
Above is a crop from a lobby card from the serial, showing from L-to-R: unidentified player, Howard Hughes, Baugh, and William Kellogg. Kermit Maynard is seated. Early on in KING OF THE TEXAS RANGERS, Baugh wore a twin holster set ... and then all of a sudden, the leftside gun and holster was gone. In the B&W publicity still at the top of this page, Baugh is shown with the single holster.
The blowup shows the two-gun rig. And Baugh's pistol(s) were Smith & Wesson or Colt double-actions, not the traditional single-action Colt.
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Alicia R. D. Seymour wrote an article on Baugh for Classic Images: http://www.classicimages.com/1998/november98/sammybaugh.html
Baugh is a charter member of the NFL Hall of Fame, having been elected during the initial round in 1963:
http://www.profootballhof.com/index.cfm?section=team&cont_id=186132
http://www.profootballhof.com/index.cfm?section=team&cont_id=player&personnel_id=1172&roster_id=42
Baugh is also a member of the College Football Hall of Fame: http://collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=30084
Want to see Baugh's statistics with the Redskins? The Hickok Sports website has a bio and stats: http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/baughsam.shtml
ESPN has a bio on Baugh: http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Baugh_Sammy.html
The Sporting News has a bio on Baugh: http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/100/11.html
