He was co-captain of the 1958 Orange Bowl team and an honorable mention All American right halfback. He also played first base on an ACC Championship Duke baseball team. RIP.
Colonel George Fewell Dutrow, PhD
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He was co-captain of the 1958 Orange Bowl team and an honorable mention All American right halfback. He also played first base on an ACC Championship Duke baseball team. RIP.
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"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
An extremely varied and productive life. May he RIP indeed.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Agreed. I remember Sonny w/ a bit off a paunch - hard to envision him as a DB grabbing ints.
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"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
That may be what happens when you play until you are 40. Hoops coach Harold Bradley wanted him to play basketball. When in the NFL, he was reasonably fast, beating fellow QB Bill Kilmer in wind sprints per the WaPo and outrunning QB Roman Gabriel in a TV skills competition. Both were much younger.
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Sonny Jurgensen was an all-state basketball player at Wilmington High School (now New Hanover H.S.). He was an all-state catcher and likely could have made the majors as a catcher; imagine trying to run on that arm. He was an outstanding youth tennis player.
He was an outstanding DB at Duke. But he was hampered both by injuries and very conservative offensive philosophy. Duke used to have teams where no one had double-digit catches over the course of the entire season.
Ace Parker was an assistant on those Duke teams and he had lots of NFL contacts. Parker made sure those contacts knew that Jurgensen had everything needed to be a standout NFL quarterback.
Sonny made the NC Shrine game as a basketball player not football player. He was quite an athlete and one of my favorite Redskins players. Take that Billy Kilmer.
I went to high school with Colonel Dutrow's daughters. One was a Morehead Scholar at UNC and the other was Class of '87 at Duke.
The story Jurgensen told was that after the football all-star game, the players sat around and talked about where they were going to college. Sonny implied that the discussion led to a number going to Duke.
I think it was East-West game, but there was also a NC-SC game.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013