| Jethro Pugh | |
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 Jethro Pugh, middle, presenting check to the UNCF at the 2005 Jethro Pugh Celebrity Golf Tournament |
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| Date of birth: | July 3, 1944 |
| Place of birth: |  Windsor, NC |
| Career information | |
| Position(s): | Defensive tackle |
| College: | Elizabeth City State |
| NFL Draft: | 1965 / Round: 11 / Pick 145 |
| Organizations | |
| As player: | |
| 1965-1978 | Dallas Cowboys |
| Stats at DatabaseFootball.com | |
Jethro Pugh (born July 3, 1944 in Windsor, North Carolina) is a former American football defensive tackle in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys. The United Negro College Fund ( UNCF) is a Fairfax, Virginia -based American philanthropic organization that fundraises College tuition Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Windsor is a town in Bertie County, North Carolina, United States. In American football, each team has 11 players on the field at one time Defensive tackle ( DT) is a position on the defensive line in American and Canadian football. This is a List of Athletic Conferences of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA Elizabeth City State University ( ECSU) is an institution of higher learning located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in the United States. The NFL Draft is an annual Sports draft in which NFL teams select newly-eligible players for their rosters The 1965 National Football League Draft took place on November 28 1964 The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC in the National Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Windsor is a town in Bertie County, North Carolina, United States. North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with Defensive tackle ( DT) is a position on the defensive line in American and Canadian football. The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC in the National He played with Dallas for his entire career, from 1965 through 1978. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Pugh's achievements as a professional athlete were largely overshadowed for most of his career by Hall-of-Famer Bob Lilly who played defensive tackle on the other side. Bob Lilly (born July 26, 1939) is a former American football player in the NFL and Photographer. While Quarterback sacks were not an official NFL statistic during Pugh's career, he is unofficially credited with a career total of 95. In American football and Canadian football, the sack occurs when the Quarterback is tackled behind the Line of scrimmage before he 5. [1] He led the Cowboys in sacks each season from 1968-1972 [2] with a high mark of 15. 5 in 1968. [3]
Pugh attended Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. Elizabeth City State University ( ECSU) is an institution of higher learning located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in the United States. Alpha Phi Alpha ( ΑΦΑ) is the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans Founded on December 4 1906 on the campus of The Greek alphabet (Ελληνικό αλφάβητο is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early Fraternities and sororities (from the Latin words la frater and la soror, meaning "brother" and "sister" respectively are fraternal [1]
Pugh owns a number of Western-themed gift shops at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Texas. He also hosts an annual Jethro Pugh Celebrity Golf Tournament in Dallas to raise funds for the United Negro College Fund. The United Negro College Fund ( UNCF) is a Fairfax, Virginia -based American philanthropic organization that fundraises College tuition [2]
References
External links
- Database Football: Jethro Pugh
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