Jack Snow (American football)

Jack Snow

No. 84
Position:	Wide receiver
Personal information
Born:	(1943-01-25)January 25, 1943 Rock Springs, Wyoming, U.S.
Died:	January 9, 2006(2006-01-09) (aged 62) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:	190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school:	St. Anthony's (Long Beach, California)
College:	Notre Dame
NFL draft:	1965 / round: 1 / pick: 8
Career history
Minnesota Vikings (1965)* Los Angeles Rams (1965–1975)
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only
Career highlights and awards
Pro Bowl (1967) St. Louis Football Ring of Fame National champion (1964) Consensus All-American (1964)
Career NFL statistics
Receptions: 340 Receiving yards: 6,012 Receiving average: 17.7 Receiving touchdowns: 45 Stats at Pro Football Reference

Jack Thomas Snow (January 25, 1943 – January 9, 2006) was an American professional football player who played wide receiver with the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL from 1965 to 1975. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 1962 through 1964.

Biography

Early years

Snow was a three-sport star at St. Anthony Boys' High School, Long Beach, California who totaled 10 varsity letters while competing in football, baseball and basketball. He was an All-state football receiver during his senior season and went on to post a .458 batting average as an All-city baseball performer.

College

In his senior year at Notre Dame, he was a consensus All-American and finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1964 behind the winner, Notre Dame quarterback John Huarte. The 1964 season was coach Ara Parseghian's first season with Notre Dame, and he made several key position switches that year, including moving Snow from flanker to split end. Snow lost 15 pounds to compete more effectively as a split receiver. Notre Dame's passing offense in Parseghian's first season helped produce 27 team and individual records, including five set by Snow for receptions (60), receiving yards (1,114) and touchdown catches (9) in a season; receiving yards in a game (217, vs. Wisconsin); and career receiving yards (1,242). He broke the previous record for receiving yards in a game (208, by Jim Morse in a 1955 game vs. USC), more than doubled the old record for receiving yards in a season and scored 19 more receptions in one season than any previous Notre Dame player. Snow also averaged nearly 37 yards per kick as the 1964 team's punter.

NFL career

The Minnesota Vikings selected Snow in the first round (he was the eighth pick overall) in the 1965 NFL draft but soon traded him to the Rams. Snow broke into the Rams' starting lineup in his rookie season of 1965 and remained there. In 1967, he averaged a career-high 26.3 yards per reception and scored eight touchdowns on his 28 receptions. He was named to the West squad in the NFL Pro Bowl but did not appear in the game.

Snow gained a reputation for catching the long pass from quarterback Roman Gabriel. He remained the Rams' starter at split end until 1974–1975, when he divided time with fellow receivers Lance Rentzel, Harold Jackson, and Ron Jessie. He finished his professional career with 340 receptions and 45 touchdowns; his 6012 career receiving yards ranked 30th in NFL history.

Acting and broadcasting career

Snow appeared in the 1969 motion picture Marooned. He appeared as himself in the 1969 episode "Samantha's Shopping Spree" of the television series Bewitched. He played Cassidy in the comedy Heaven Can Wait.

Following his NFL career, Snow went into the real-estate business with college roommate Bob Arboit in Newport Beach, California. He returned to the Rams as a receivers coach in 1982 under Ray Malavasi. In 1992, he joined Los Angeles sports-talk radio station KMPC (now KSPN) as an analyst for Rams radio broadcasts and a daily program host. He followed the team to St. Louis in 1995 and was one of a handful of old L.A. Rams still employed by the Rams in the 2005 season, 11 years after their departure from southern California.

Death

Snow developed a staph infection in November 2005 and died at age 62 as a result of complications.

NFL career statistics

Legend
	Won the NFL championship
	Led the league
Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	Games		Receiving
		GP	GS	Rec	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD
1965	RAM	14	14	38	559	14.7	60	3
1966	RAM	14	14	34	634	18.6	84	3
1967	RAM	14	14	28	735	26.3	80	8
1968	RAM	14	13	29	500	17.2	54	3
1969	RAM	14	14	49	734	15.0	74	6
1970	RAM	14	14	51	859	16.8	71	7
1971	RAM	14	14	37	666	18.0	68	5
1972	RAM	14	14	30	590	19.7	57	4
1973	RAM	14	14	16	252	15.8	38	2
1974	RAM	14	14	24	397	16.5	44	3
1975	RAM	10	0	4	86	21.5	42	1
Career		150	139	340	6,012	17.7	84	45

Family

Snow's son J.T. Snow is a retired Major League Baseball first baseman for the San Francisco Giants and Anaheim Angels. Following the senior Snow's death, the junior Snow changed his uniform number in his father's memory while playing for the Boston Red Sox.

External links

• Career statistics from Pro Football Reference
• Jack Snow at Find a Grave
• http://www.thesnowfoundation.org