Tuesday, October 14, 2014

1969 Profile: Matt Snell

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No. 41
Ohio State
"The AFL championship game and the Super Bowl served as a national showcase of the kind of work Matt Snell had been doing all season long in 1968. So completely had he integrated himself into the Jet pattern that Matt's work went largely overlooked in precincts outside of New York.
But Matt's always been that type of player - a team man who blocked like blazes for Joe Namath and would carry the ball through a brick wall when called upon. The only trouble was that Matt was plagued with knee problems during the 1967 season and was slowed down. But off-season surgery restored the knee and Matt ran with his old vigor week after week last year, winding up sixth in the rushing charts with 747 yards on 179 carries for a 4.2 average and six touchdowns.
It was Matt's best season since his Rookie of the Year performance in 1964, when he gained 948 yards."

-Jack Zanger, Pro Football 1969

"Battling back from knee surgery, Matt played one of the greatest games of his career against the Colts in the 1968 Super Bowl. He scored the first touchdown in the game to give New York a 7-0 lead. The speedy back repeatedly ran around and through the Baltimore defense."

-1969 Topps No. 193

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