Sammy Green
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| Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | October 12, 1954 | ||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Bradenton, Florida | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 228 lb (103 kg) | ||||||||||
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| High school: | Fort Meade (FL) | ||||||||||
| College: | Florida | ||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1976 / Round: 2 / Pick: 29 | ||||||||||
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| Games played: | 62 |
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| Games started: | 44 |
| Interceptions: | 3 |
| Fumbles recovered: | 2 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Samuel Lee Green (born October 12, 1954) is an American former college and professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons during the 1970s and early 1980s. He played college football for the University of Florida, and received All-American honors. A second-round pick in the 1976 NFL Draft, Green played professionally for the Seattle Seahawks and the Houston Oilers of the NFL.
Sammy Green was born in Bradenton, Florida in 1954. He attended Fort Meade High School in Fort Meade, Florida, where he played high school football for the Fort Meade Miners.
Green accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Doug Dickey's Florida Gators football team from 1972 to 1975. Memorably, as a sophomore in 1973, Green forced a critical fumble by Auburn Tigers tailback Sullivan Walker, which led to a touchdown and the Gators' margin of victory in a 12–8 upset of the Tigers at home—the Gators' first-ever win at Jordan-Hare Stadium. He was a team captain, a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection, and a consensus first-team All-American in 1975. Green was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2003. In one of a series of articles published by The Gainesville Sun in 2006, the newspaper's sports editors ranked him as the No. 51 all-time greatest Gator among the top 100 players from the first century of the Florida football team.
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