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Vol 8, No 351

December 17, 1903

Thursday Evening

Wright Brothers launch Air Ship at Kitty Hawk

Today in Sports
Legendary Quarterback Sam Baugh dies
ROTAN  (2008)    On this date in 2008, Sam Baugh, legendary quarterback for TCU and the Washington Redskins, died at Fisher County Hospital, in Rotan, Texas.
   Sam Baugh brought passing as a formittable weapon in football. He led TCU to a National Championship, then in his rookie year at Washington, led the Redskins to an NFL Championship. When he showed up at training camp his first year, the Washington coach sent a receiver way down field, and asked Baugh "I hear you throw good. See if you can hit that man (down field) in the eye" to which Baugh was reported to have replied "Which eye, coach?".
   In 1963, Baugh was among the first class inducted into the NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

First Motorized Flight
KITTY HAWK NC (1903)   On this date in 1903, Orville Wright piloted a 600 pound motorized air craft on mans first powered flight. Several other flights would take place that day, the longest for 59 seconds (852 feet). Orville and his brother Wilbur, had been working on glider designs at Kitty Hawk as early as 1900 with several successful flights. This is their (and the world's) first successful motorized flight. Early attempts, notably that of Jake Brodbeck of Fredericksburg, Texas, were unable to sustain flight over distance.