Edward Eugene Hargett is a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 quarterback

Quarterback

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 for Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

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 who went on to play professionally for the NFL's

National Football League

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 New Orleans Saints

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 and Houston Oilers. He later played for the Shreveport Steamer

Shreveport Steamer

The Shreveport Steamer were a professional American football team in the World Football League. The franchise began the 1974 season in Houston, Texas, as the Houston Texans, who are in no way related to the current NFL team of the same name, playing their home games at the Houston Astrodome...

 of the World Football League

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Edd passed for 5379 yards in his 3 year career (1966–68) at Texas A&M. This was a Texas A&M passing record at the time, eclipsed first by Kevin Murray in 1986. He still holds the all-time record for most total yards in one game (418 against SMU in 1968). He directed the Aggies to the Southwest Conference championships in 1967 and a win in the Cotton Bowl

1968 Cotton Bowl Classic

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 over Alabama and former Texas A&M coach Bear Bryant.

Hargett was an honor student in electrical engineering at Texas A&M and later served as the manager of the Houston County Electric Co-op in Crockett, Texas

Crockett, Texas

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In 1985, Hargett ran unsuccessfully as a Republican

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 in a special election for the United States House of Representatives

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, having secured the support of such party leaders as former state Republican chairman Chet Upham

Chet Upham

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. Hargett lost the race to the Democrat

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 Jim Chapman

Jim Chapman

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 of Sulphur Springs

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. The vacancy occurred when U.S. Representative Sam B. Hall, Jr., of Marshall

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 resigned to accept a federal judicial appointment from U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan.