Samuel Webster Agee Sr (October 21, 1915 – November 2, 2006) was a professional
American football
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 American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
player who played
running back
A running back (RB) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football. The primary roles of a running back are to receive American football plays#Offensive terminology, handoffs from the quarterback to Rush (American football)#Offense ...
for four seasons for the
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.
Roots ca ...
. He was born in
Courtland,
Alabama
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in October 1915.
He went to high school at
Columbia Military Academy
The campus of Columbia Military Academy was built as an arsenal for the US Army in 1891 and closed after the Spanish–American War. The arsenal was declared surplus property in 1901 and in 1904 the land was formally turned over to the Columbia ...
in Tennessee. He died in
.
References
1915 births
2006 deaths
American football running backs
Chicago Cardinals players
Vanderbilt Commodores football players
People from Lawrence County, Alabama
20th-century American sportsmen
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