Editing Sam Huff (section)

==Early life==
Huff was born and grew up in the No. 9 coal mining camp<ref>{{cite web | work=Appalachian Blacksmiths Association | url=http://www.appaltree.net/aba/coalminers.htm | title=Coal Miners—an essay | access-date=June 29, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517124757/http://www.appaltree.net/aba/coalminers.htm | archive-date=May 17, 2008 }}</ref> in [[Farmington, West Virginia|Edna, West Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web | work=WTRF-TV | url=http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=32016 | title=Mountaineer Flashback – Sam Huff | access-date=June 29, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603232034/http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=32016 | archive-date=June 3, 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The fourth of six children of Oral and Catherine Huff, he lived with his family in a small rowhouse with no running water.<ref name=violentworld>{{cite web | work=ESPN | url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/classic/bio/news/story?page=Huff_Sam | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316081110/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/classic/bio/news/story?page=Huff_Sam | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 16, 2011 | title=The Violent World | access-date=June 29, 2008}}</ref>  Huff grew up during the [[Great Depression]] while his father and two of his brothers worked in the [[coal mines]] loading buggies for Consolidated Mining.<ref name=varsityclub>{{cite web | work=WVU Varsity Club | url=http://wvuvarsityclub.com/profiles/huff_sam.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021209174513/http://www.wvuvarsityclub.com/profiles/huff_sam.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 9, 2002 | title=Profile: Sam Huff | access-date=June 29, 2008 }}</ref>

Huff attended and played [[high school football]] at the now-closed Farmington High School, where he was both an [[Offensive line|offensive]] and [[defensive lineman]].<ref name=timeswv>{{cite web | work=Times West Virginian | url=http://www.timeswv.com/sportscentral/local_story_103012805.html | title=Farmington's Sam Huff went from zero to hero | access-date=June 28, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204175325/http://www.timeswv.com/sportscentral/local_story_103012805.html | archive-date=February 4, 2013 }}</ref>  While he was there, Huff helped lead the team to an undefeated season in 1951.<ref name=nfhs>{{cite web | work=National Federation of State High School Associations | url=http://www.nfhs.org/web/2004/01/athletes_hm.aspx | title=National High School Hall of Fame | access-date=June 29, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080617184521/http://www.nfhs.org/web/2004/01/athletes_hm.aspx <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = June 17, 2008}}</ref>  He earned All-State honors in 1952 and was named to the first-team All-Mason Dixon Conference.<ref name=nfhs />