Robert Harland Reifsnyder (born June 18, 1937) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player. An All-American at the

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, he won the

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in 1957. He went on to play professionally for the American Football League (AFL)'s New York Titans (1960–1961). Reifsnyder was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997. He has also coached

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. He coached the Bisons of Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa, New York, where actor Alec Baldwin was one of his players. He won the "Thorp Award" (Nassau County NY Outstanding HS Football Player) in 1954; joining fellow "Thorp Award" winners: Jim Brown-1952, John Mackey-1958 and

Matt Snell Matthews Snell (born August 18, 1941) is a retired professional football player who played for the New York Jets. He was Jets' owner Sonny Werblin's first coup, prior to his 1965 acquisition of Joe Namath. A powerful fullback out of Ohio Stat ...

-1959.

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