Dale Samuels
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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
 Samuels on a 1953 Bowman football card | |
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Position | Quarterback |
| Personal information | |
| Born | August 2, 1931 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Listed weight | 175 lb (79 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Lindblom Technical (Chicago) |
| College | Purdue (1949–1952) |
| NFL draft | 1953: 3rd round, 28th overall pick |
| Career history | |
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only | |
Dale Allen Samuels (born August 2, 1931) is an American former professional football quarterback who played one season with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers and was selected by the Cardinals in the third round of the 1953 NFL draft.
Dale Allen Samuels was born on August 2, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois.[1] For high school, he attended Lindblom Technical High School in Chicago.[1]
College career
Samuels played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers of Purdue University. He was on the freshman year in 1949.[1] He was then a three-year starter and letterman from 1950 to 1952.[2][1] He was the first Boilermaker to record 1,000 passing yards in a season when he threw for 1,076 yards in 1950. In his second game for the Boilermakers on October 7, 1950, he helped Purdue defeat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and end their 39-game undefeated streak. The Boilermakers won the Big Ten co-championship his senior year in 1952. He recorded college career totals of 3,161 passing yards and 27 touchdowns.[2] Samuels played in the Chicago Charities College All-Star Game and North–South Shrine Game after his senior year.[2]
Samuels was inducted into the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001.[3] He was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 2018.[2] Upon being inducted in 2018, Samuels stated "If you would have told me in 1948 before my senior year of high school that I would be standing here today being inducted into the (Hall of Fame) I would have questioned your sanity. No one in my family went to college."[4]