1. Neil Snow competed in American football, baseball, and track and field at the University of Michigan from 1898 to 1902.
21 Facts About Neil Snow
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Neil Snow was selected as a first-team All-American football player in 1901 and the MVP of the 1902 Rose Bowl, a game in which he scored five touchdowns.
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Neil Snow was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960.
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Neil Snow stood 5 feet 8 inches and weighed 190 pounds.
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Neil Snow played four seasons for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1898 to 1901.
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In December 1900, Neil Snow was defeated in his bid for re-election as captain of the football team by a vote of 15 to 7.
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Neil Snow's fame grew as a result of his role on the 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, considered by some the greatest Michigan football team of all time.
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Neil Snow scored five touchdowns in the 1902 Rose Bowl, as follows:.
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Neil Snow was named the Most Valuable Player of the game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.
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Neil Snow coached football at the University of Nashville in 1902.
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Newspaper accounts indicate that Neil Snow hurried to his brother's bedside at St Margaret's hospital in Hammond.
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Neil Snow continued to remain involved in sports and was a popular choice as an official for football games for the Eastern and Western schools.
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Neil Snow became ill after a game of squash at the Detroit Racquet and Curling Club and after having his dinner, took a taxi cab to his doctor's office, where he collapsed and died from a heart attack.
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Neil Snow was a powerful player, possessing such determination and fortitude that he would go through a stone wall if he had to.
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Neil Snow was their great all-around athlete; good in football, baseball and track.
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Neil Snow was always the last to talk of his own athletic achievements.
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Neil Snow has been called "the greatest all-round athlete ever graduated from the University of Michigan" and was named a member of Fielding H Yost's "all-time" Michigan team at the right end position.
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Neil Snow stood as one of the great football players of the game.
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Neil Snow was an all-American end and a great plunging full back.
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Neil Snow was one of the best college first basemen that ever lived.
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Sports writer Grantland Rice often wrote about Neil Snow, ranking him as one of the three greatest all-around athletes ever turned out in college sport along with Jim Thorpe and Elmer Oliphant.