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Sanford (November 11, 1908[1] \u2013 August 8, 1966) was an American baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.  He served as the head baseball coach at Randolph\u2013Macon College from 1942 to 1949 and at Wake Forest University from 1951 to 1955.    He led the Wake Forest Demon Deacons baseball team to the 1955 College World Series championship.Table of ContentsEarly life[edit]Playing career[edit]Coaching career[edit]Later life and death[edit]Head coaching record[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Early life[edit]Sanford was born to Dr. and Mrs. T. Ryland Sanford in Hampton, Virginia.  He later attended Hargrave Military Academy where he was an all-state athlete in football, basketball and baseball.  He then enrolled at the University of Richmond.[2]Playing career[edit]Sanford was captain of the Richmond Spiders football, basketball, and baseball teams, and set school records in the shot put and discus.[3]  He then played baseball professionally in the Bi-State and Piedmont leagues while also coaching prep and college teams.  He ended his professional career in 1946, having never climbed higher than Class B.He was listed as a scout for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball in 1948.[4]Coaching career[edit]Sanford began his coaching career at Hargrave, coaching for thirteen years at the prep school.  He became athletic director and coach of the baseball and basketball teams at Randolph\u2013Macon.  His teams won a total of five conference championships over his seven years in Ashland, Virginia, before moving to Wake Forest as freshman football coach.  In his second year at Wake Forest, he added baseball to his coaching duties while continuing in various assistant coaching roles with the football team.  Most notably, the Deacs won the Atlantic Coast Conference and College World Series in 1955.[2][5] During 1955, the U. S. Olympic Committee asked coach Sanford to put together a team to compete in the Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Because of the time of year of the games, the team Sanford put together was mostly his Wake Forest college team.  This was the first time baseball had been played in any part of Olympic competition, and the U. S. team took the silver medal.During the College World Series, a rainout forced a game on Sunday, sparking a small controversy at the Baptist school when word reached Wake Forest.[3]  This followed word that Sanford would not be kept full-time after the 1956 season and little recognition from the school of his achievement in Omaha.  Sanford therefore resigned from Wake Forest on January 31, 1956, citing his “feeling of insecurity” and that he had “no assurance that I will have a job after the current season is over.”[5]Later life and death[edit]Sanford returned to Virginia after stepping down at Wake Forest, and served as athletic director at Fort Lee. He died on August 8, 1966, in Petersburg, Virginia.[2] In 1977, Sanford was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.Head coaching record[edit]Statistics overviewSeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseasonWake Forest Demon Deacons  (Southern Conference) (1951\u20131953)1951Wake Forest16\u201371952Wake Forest13\u2013121953Wake Forest15\u20135Wake Forest Demon Deacons  (Atlantic Coast Conference) (1954\u20131955)1954Wake Forest13\u201398\u201374th1955Wake Forest29\u2013711\u201331stCollege World SeriesWake Forest:42\u20131619\u201310Total:86\u201340\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0National champion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Postseason invitational champion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Conference regular season champion\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Conference regular season and conference tournament champion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Division regular season champion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Division regular season and conference tournament champion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Conference tournament championReferences[edit]^ a b Baseball Reference player page^ a b c “Taylor Sanford Dies at 57 in Petersburg”. The Free Lance-Star. Fredericksburg, VA. August 9, 1966. p.\u00a05. Retrieved January 27, 2013.^ a b Jim Sumner (June 15, 2007). “Looking Back… Wake Forest’s College World Series Championship in 1955”. theacc.com. Retrieved January 27, 2013.^ Spink, J.G. Taylor, ed., 1948 Official Baseball Guide and Record Book. St. Louis: The Sporting News^ a b “Taylor Sanford Resigns as Deacs Baseball Coach”. Wilmington Morning Star. February 1, 1956. p.\u00a010. Retrieved January 27, 2013.External links[edit]  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/taylor-sanford-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Taylor Sanford – Wikipedia"}}]}]