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Colt icon Matte in town for celebrity golf tournament
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Happy to support Hope for the Warriors
September 28, 2010
Rick Scoppe
The Daily News
As he chatted before the rain-shortened first round of the Scarlet & Gold Invitational Celebrity Golf Tournament fund-raiser for Hope for the Warriors, ex-Baltimore Colt star Tom Matte could not help but recall another trip he took many years ago to help the nation?s armed forces.
Matte, a first-round NFL draft choice out of Ohio State who went on to play for the Colts from 1961 to 1972, joined four others, including future NFL Hall of Famers Bob Lilly and Lem Barney, for a monthlong hospital tour of Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines and Guam during the Vietnam War.
?We did the hospital tour over there, thinking that we could help these guys,? Matte said in the dining room Monday at the Jacksonville Country Club. ?It was a joke. These guys helped us more than we ever thought of helping them. They gave us such an unbelievable attitude. The esprit de corps you might say of the military is just so fantastic.
?These wounded warriors are coming home and facing life in reality. We?re playing sports, having a great time doing it. So my heart goes out to them. The athletes that are here, they all feel the same way I do. It?s a very, very special time, and anything we can do to help our armed service people, the guys will do it.?
http://www.jdnews.com/sports/town-83052-rain-colt.html
http://www.jdnews.com/sports/old-83085-matte-care.html
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I was in school with Tom Matte during his playing time at OSU from 1958-60. He was a friend of mine, and in a couple of classes with me. I also was a business aquaintence with him in the 70's, who he called on as a Salesman. Tom basically was a RB here at OSU from Shaw High School in Cleveland Ohio. He was 6-1" and weighed 214 lbs. His college career here at was so -so, and may best be know of how Woody Hayes initally used him in a specific game. The 1959 season was pretty much a disaster for the Buckeyes as they ended up 3-5-1.
In that 1959 opener aganist Duke Woody's team got a blow when starting QB Jerry Fields went down with an arm injury. OSU was leading Duke 7-0 at the half, and Woody took Matte, center Jene Watkins and a couple of other players out of the South end of the Horseshoe to a practice field and had Matte take snaps and try passing the ball. Woody decided that Tom could do the job, but started reserve QB Jack Wallace in the 2nd half , but he could not move the Buckeyes in the 2nd half....the Duke team score twice in the meantime and had a 13-7 lead when Woody Installed Matte at QB. In almost magical style Matte moved the Buckeyes down the field 63 yards for the winning score in the closing moments of the game.. Matte scored on a 4th and 22 yard rollout TD pass to Chuck Bryant for the single point win 14-13.
Matte played QB back and forth with RB the rest of the 1959 and 1960 career. Those season were not anything speical... Matte and Woody were two that went at each other most of the time.....then in the first round of the 1961 pro draft, Matte was the 7th pick in the 1st round and went to the Baltimore Colts.
What happened next is in the NFL history books...Tom Matte played from 1961 to 1972(12 years) wiht Baltimore as a RB gaining 4646 career rushing yards, 2869 reception yards with 249 catches and 1367 kick off return yards scoring 57 total TD's in his pro career.
However..Matte the Quarterback? He got to play in 2 games under center! In the 1965 season that appeared again as John Unatis and Gary Guozzo went down wiht injuries, right at the wrong time and Don Shula was wringing his hands as what to do...In a telecon wiht Woody Hayes, Woody convinced Shula to try Matte at QB,,,Shula made up and fitted a plastic wristband on Matte's arm with all the Colt's plays on it, they had developed for Matte. Matte and the wristband became NFL history when he used the wristband to help run plays and beat the LA Rams 20-17 in the season's last game.
Still in 1965 playing for the conference win, the Colts then lost 13-10 in Overtime to the Green Bay Packers in the game as the Colts got a controversial call on a 4th quarter FG that appeared wide . Matte was selected to the 1968 and 1969 Prow Bowl Teams. His famous wristband is enshrined in the NFL Hall Of fame.
During his career, Matte earned the name"garbage Man" during his career and his playing days. Many of us Buckeye fans do not think of Matte when we mention Buckeye QB's that played in the NFL. He is still a legend in the city of Baltimore and the Colts Organization.
Found this old post from another site in 2016......
In that 1959 opener aganist Duke Woody's team got a blow when starting QB Jerry Fields went down with an arm injury. OSU was leading Duke 7-0 at the half, and Woody took Matte, center Jene Watkins and a couple of other players out of the South end of the Horseshoe to a practice field and had Matte take snaps and try passing the ball. Woody decided that Tom could do the job, but started reserve QB Jack Wallace in the 2nd half , but he could not move the Buckeyes in the 2nd half....the Duke team score twice in the meantime and had a 13-7 lead when Woody Installed Matte at QB. In almost magical style Matte moved the Buckeyes down the field 63 yards for the winning score in the closing moments of the game.. Matte scored on a 4th and 22 yard rollout TD pass to Chuck Bryant for the single point win 14-13.
Matte played QB back and forth with RB the rest of the 1959 and 1960 career. Those season were not anything speical... Matte and Woody were two that went at each other most of the time.....then in the first round of the 1961 pro draft, Matte was the 7th pick in the 1st round and went to the Baltimore Colts.
What happened next is in the NFL history books...Tom Matte played from 1961 to 1972(12 years) wiht Baltimore as a RB gaining 4646 career rushing yards, 2869 reception yards with 249 catches and 1367 kick off return yards scoring 57 total TD's in his pro career.
However..Matte the Quarterback? He got to play in 2 games under center! In the 1965 season that appeared again as John Unatis and Gary Guozzo went down wiht injuries, right at the wrong time and Don Shula was wringing his hands as what to do...In a telecon wiht Woody Hayes, Woody convinced Shula to try Matte at QB,,,Shula made up and fitted a plastic wristband on Matte's arm with all the Colt's plays on it, they had developed for Matte. Matte and the wristband became NFL history when he used the wristband to help run plays and beat the LA Rams 20-17 in the season's last game.
Still in 1965 playing for the conference win, the Colts then lost 13-10 in Overtime to the Green Bay Packers in the game as the Colts got a controversial call on a 4th quarter FG that appeared wide . Matte was selected to the 1968 and 1969 Prow Bowl Teams. His famous wristband is enshrined in the NFL Hall Of fame.
During his career, Matte earned the name"garbage Man" during his career and his playing days. Many of us Buckeye fans do not think of Matte when we mention Buckeye QB's that played in the NFL. He is still a legend in the city of Baltimore and the Colts Organization.
Found this old post from another site in 2016......
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Tom Matte (old Colts RB . . . and emergency QB (and originator of the playbook wristband)) brought his Ohio State helmet with him to the NFL. He eventually ditched it after several seasons.
The wristband story, for those who have never heard it --
http://mmqb.si.com/2014/05/27/nfl-history-in-95-objects-tom-matte-playbook-wristband/
http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/...-to-a-running-back-to-play-quarterback-122413
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
FORMER OHIO STATE QUARTERBACK TOM MATTE DIES AT 82 YEARS OLD
Former Ohio State quarterback and 1960 team MVP Tom Matte has died.
The former Buckeye, who went on to be an All-Pro running back for the Baltimore Colts, died at the age of 82, the Baltimore Ravens said Wednesday in a statement. Per the Baltimore Sun, Matte passed away at his home on Tuesday.
Matte began his career at Ohio State as a running back, but moved to quarterback in 1959 due to injuries at the position and went on to finish seventh in the Heisman Trophy standings in 1960, when he threw for 737 yards and eight touchdowns and ran for 682 yards and two touchdowns to lead Ohio State to a 7-2 record. He earned All-Big Ten honors and was selected with the Colts with the No. 7 overall pick in the 1961 NFL draft.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...te-quarterback-tom-matte-dies-at-82-years-old
R.I.P.
Former Ohio State quarterback and 1960 team MVP Tom Matte has died.
The former Buckeye, who went on to be an All-Pro running back for the Baltimore Colts, died at the age of 82, the Baltimore Ravens said Wednesday in a statement. Per the Baltimore Sun, Matte passed away at his home on Tuesday.
Matte began his career at Ohio State as a running back, but moved to quarterback in 1959 due to injuries at the position and went on to finish seventh in the Heisman Trophy standings in 1960, when he threw for 737 yards and eight touchdowns and ran for 682 yards and two touchdowns to lead Ohio State to a 7-2 record. He earned All-Big Ten honors and was selected with the Colts with the No. 7 overall pick in the 1961 NFL draft.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...te-quarterback-tom-matte-dies-at-82-years-old
R.I.P.
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