1. Gino Marchetti played in 1952 for the Dallas Texans and from 1953 to 1966 for the Baltimore Colts.
19 Facts About Gino Marchetti
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Gino Marchetti was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972.
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In 1969, Marchetti was named to the National Football League 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
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In 1994, Gino Marchetti was named to the National Football League 75th Anniversary All-Time Team.
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In 1944, while a high school senior and only 17 years old, Gino Marchetti enlisted in the US Army.
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Gino Marchetti returned home to Antioch from the Army in 1946.
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Gino Marchetti played semipro football for the Antioch Hornets in 1947.
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Gino Marchetti was selected in the second round of the 1952 NFL draft by the New York Yanks.
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In 2004, Gino Marchetti was voted to the East-West Shrine Game Hall of Fame.
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Gino Marchetti played 13 seasons with the Colts and helped them win NFL Championships in 1958 and 1959.
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Gino Marchetti was voted "the greatest defensive end in pro football history" by the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972.
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Colts coach Keith Molesworth moved Gino Marchetti to left offensive tackle in 1954, a position Gino Marchetti hated, but admitted that it taught him how to beat a blocker.
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Gino Marchetti made a big play in the 1958 NFL Championship Game when he prevented the New York Giants from gaining a first down by tackling Frank Gifford just a foot short of the first down mark.
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Gino Marchetti was voted most valuable player of the 1963 Pro Bowl.
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Quarterback sacks were not kept as an official statistic during Gino Marchetti's playing years, but informal records kept after 1960 indicate that Gino Marchetti had 56 sacks from ages 34 to 39, past his prime.
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Gino Marchetti was enshrined in the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.
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Gino Marchetti is a member of Modesto Junior College Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 1990, and the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame.
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In 2009, Marchetti teamed with other former key Gino's employees to resurrect the Gino's name.
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Gino Marchetti died of complications of pneumonia at Paoli Hospital in Paoli, Pennsylvania on April 29,2019.