Recall Sonny saying the difference between him and Otto Graham was that Otto liked milk shakes and chocolate bars and he liked Scotch and blondes.
My Dad taught Sonny J at Duke.
I asked if he was a good student. My Dad said, "He was a great quarterback."
Sonny threw for four TDs, and the Redskins' record after the game stood at 2-2-2: https://www.pro-football-reference.c...6710220ram.htm
As a Redskins fan I didn't have any trouble rooting for Chris Hanburger.
Ken Willard was also a pretty good UNC-turned-NFL player in that decade.
Carolina had a series of good college QBs in the '60s, Junior Edge and Danny Talbott among them. But none had impactful NFL careers.
After Jurgensen, Duke had Don Altman, Walt Rappold, Gil Garner, Scotty Glacken, Al Woodall and Leo Hart among others. A pretty good run of college QBs. But no NFL stars in that group.
And, of course, Jurgensen and Snead were once traded for each other, a trade that worked out well for Washington.
Thanks for the road down memory lane, Jim. I vaguely remember Willard, Edge and Talbott. Was Talbott from Rocky Mount or am I thinking about another player? I remember watching Altman, Rappold, Garner, Glacken, Woodall and Leo Hart. Was it Altman and Rappold that alternated at QB during games? I think Hart was involved in the famous "shoe string" play against the cheats. And in my estimation the Skins won the Jurgensen-Snead trade.
Hart was involved to the extent that he did nothing but pretend to tie his shoe while Wes Chesson skulked down the sideline with the ball. I believe I have mentioned before (vis a vis the secrecy, large Cones of Silence, that surround football programs today) that the week before that game, a housemate of mine was running laps around the practice field and watched them run the play repeatedly, so we knew it was coming (though it wasn't clear to us how it would precisely unfold).
A most bizarre play indeed. And fruitful.
Talbott was from Rocky Mount. I have three male cousins about my age who grew up in Rocky Mount and all I heard growing up was Danny Talbott, the classic football-baseball-basketball-prep superstar, BMOC.
Junior Edge was from the Fayetteville area--Massey Hill, IIRC-and the Fayetteville Observer was my local paper growing up. So, he also was a big part of my earliest years watching sports.
Altman had one of the more interesting academic years in Duke history. He quarterbacked Duke to the 1960 ACC title and subsequent Cotton Bowl win over Lance Alworth and Arkansas. A few months later he was the star pitcher on Duke's College World Series team. His nickname was "Ace" and you can see why.
Rappold backed up Altman in 1960 and split QB duties with Garner in 1961 and 1962.
Don appears to have played three years in the minors to somewhat indifferent success. Don't know what you're referring to.
Ahhh! Sun dawns over Marblhehead -- the College World Series!
Altman was first team and then 2nd team All-ACC and, as of a few years ago, was by far the Duke all-time leader in ERA at 1.61. (And with aluminum bats, I don't think he has lost his lead.
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Today Sonny turns 85. Happy birthday.
Christian Adolph Jurgensen, III: https://www.profootballhof.com/players/sonny-jurgensen/
Duke with famous hoops and football players named Christian.
Nice HOF commercial: https://www.profootballhof.com/video...nny-jurgensen/
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Great Sonny footage here: https://sports.yahoo.com/never-got-s...175939434.html