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George Cafego, the Glossary

George Cafego (August 29, 1915 – February 9, 1998) was an American football player and coach of football and baseball.^[1]

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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The Arkansas Razorbacks football program represents the University of Arkansas in the sport of American football.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Boston Yanks

The Boston Yanks were a National Football League team based in Boston, Massachusetts, that played from 1944 to 1948.

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Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)

The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers.

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Chattanooga Times Free Press

The Chattanooga Times Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is distributed in the metropolitan Chattanooga region of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.

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Chicago Cardinals

The professional American football team now known as the Arizona Cardinals previously played in Chicago, Illinois, as the Chicago Cardinals from 1898 to 1959 before relocating to St. Louis, Missouri, for the 1960 through 1987 seasons.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.

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The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best college football players in the United States at their respective positions.

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The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college American football.

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Denver Broncos

The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver.

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The "Dixie League" was a professional american football minor league founded in 1936 originally as the "South Atlantic Football Association", with six charter member teams in the Middle Atlantic states of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Like the American Association (nicknamed the 'A.A.', which was another minor league in pro football that formed in 1936, (not to be confused with another "American Association", an early famous major league baseball group from 1881 to 1892), its popularity (and attendance) rivaled that of another earlier established "major league" grouping, the National Football League of 1922 (originally the "American Professional Football Conference" formed in 1920, later quickly renamed "American Professional Football Association").

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Fayette County, West Virginia

Fayette County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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A fullback (FB) is a position in the offensive backfield in gridiron football and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback.

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The Furman Paladins football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Furman University located in the state of South Carolina.

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A halfback (HB) is an offensive position in American football, whose duties involve lining up in the offensive backfield and carrying the ball on most rushing plays, i.e. a running back.

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Heisman Trophy

The Heisman Memorial Trophy (also known simply as the Heisman Trophy) is awarded annually since 1935 to the most outstanding player in college football.

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Interception

In ball-playing competitive team sports, an interception or pick is a move by a player involving a pass of the ball—whether by foot or hand, depending on the rules of the sport—in which the ball is intended for a player of the same team but caught by a player of the team on defense, who thereby usually gains possession of the ball for their team.

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Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States.

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The All-SEC football team is an annual Southeastern Conference (SEC) honor bestowed on the best players in the conference following every college football season.

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List of first overall NFL draft picks

The National Football League draft is an annual sports draft in which NFL teams select newly eligible players for their rosters. George Cafego and List of first overall NFL draft picks are first overall NFL draft picks.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis.

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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Oak Hill High School (West Virginia)

Oak Hill High School (previously known as Collins High School) is a high school located in Oak Hill, West Virginia.

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Oak Hill, West Virginia

Oak Hill is a city in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.

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Passer rating

Passer rating (also known as passing efficiency in college football) is a measure of the performance of passers, primarily quarterbacks, in gridiron football.

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Professional baseball

Professional baseball is organized baseball in which players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system.

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A punter (P) in gridiron football is a special teams player who receives the snapped ball directly from the line of scrimmage and then punts (kicks) the football to the opposing team so as to limit any field position advantage.

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Quarterback

The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football.

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In gridiron football, a reception, also known informally as a catch, is part of a passing play in which a player in bounds successfully catches (receives) a forward pass thrown from a friendly quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.

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Return specialist

A return specialist or kick returner is a player on the special teams unit of a gridiron football team who specializes in returning punts and kickoffs.

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Robert Neyland

Robert Reese Neyland (February 17, 1892 – March 28, 1962) was an American football player and coach and officer in the United States Army, reaching the rank of brigadier general. George Cafego and Robert Neyland are Tennessee Volunteers football coaches.

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Rushing is an action taken by the offense, usually the running back, but it can also be the quarterback, that means to advance the ball by running with it, as opposed to passing, or kicking.

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Southeastern Conference Player of the Year

Southeastern Conference Player of the Year refers to the most outstanding player for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in a given sport for a given season.

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Tennessee Volunteers baseball

The Tennessee Volunteers baseball team represents the University of Tennessee in NCAA Division I college baseball.

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The Tennessee Volunteers football program (variously called "Vols," "UT" and "Big Orange") represents the University of Tennessee (UT).

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Tom Cafego

Thomas Cafego (August 21, 1911 – October 29, 1961) was an American baseball player who played briefly in Major League Baseball as an outfielder.

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Touchdown

A touchdown (abbreviated as TD) is a scoring play in gridiron football.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Washington Commanders

The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area.

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Whipple, West Virginia

Whipple is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.

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Wyoming Cowboys baseball

The Wyoming Cowboys baseball team was a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming, United States.

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The Wyoming Cowboys football program represents the University of Wyoming in college football.

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The 1937 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1937 college football season.

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The 1938 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1938 college football season.

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The 1938 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1938.

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The 1939 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1939 college football season.

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The 1939 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1939.

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1940 NFL draft

The 1940 NFL draft was held on December 9, 1939, at the Schroeder Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cafego

Also known as Cafego, George.

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