deaths
January 3, 2003
Sid Gillman, American football player and coach (born 1911)

Sid Gillman
Sidney Gillman was an American football player, coach and executive. Gillman's insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes, instead of short passes to running backs or wide receivers at the sides of the line of scrimmage, was instrumental in making football into the modern game that it is today. He was inducted as a coach into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983, and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989.
January 3
January 3 is the third day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 362 days remain until the end of the year.