Bill Mathis
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Position: | Running back |
Personal information | |
Born: | (1938-12-10)December 10, 1938 Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S. |
Died: | October 20, 2020(2020-10-20) (aged 81)[1] Marietta, Georgia, U.S. |
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Weight: | 220 lb (100 kg) |
Career information | |
High school: | Manchester (GA) |
College: | Clemson |
NFL draft: | 1960 / Round: 8 / Pick: 88 |
AFL draft: | 1960 / Round: 1 Pick: First Selections (by the Denver Broncos) |
Career history | |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Career NFL statistics | |
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR | |
Bill Mathis (December 10, 1938 – October 20, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a running back for the New York Titans/Jets in the American Football League (AFL).[2] He played college football for the Clemson Tigers. He started his professional career with the Titans, and played his entire career with the AFL's New York franchise. One of four Titans who remained with the New York Jets to play in and win a Super Bowl, Mathis led the AFL in carries in 1961 and was selected by his peers to the Sporting News 1961 AFL All-League team. He was an AFL Eastern Division All-Star in 1961 and 1963. Mathis had a collarbone broken in the third game of 1961, against the Boston Patriots. He played in the next game, and in fact in all the remaining games of the season.
That persistence allowed him to gain a roster spot year after year, and end his career in 1969 after winning Super Bowl III. He is one of twenty players who were in the AFL for its entire ten-year existence, and seven players who played their entire AFL careers for one franchise. He was inducted into the Clemson University Hall of Fame, South Carolina Hall of Fame, and the Georgia Hall of Fame.
After retiring from football, Mathis began a career on Wall Street, starting at the firm Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt.[3]
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New York Athletic Club
- 1876: Charles McIvor
- 1877: William Wilmer
- 1878: Fred Saportas
NAAAA
- 1879: Beverly Value
- 1880-81: Lon Myers
- 1882-83: Arthur Waldron
- 1884-86ro: Malcolm Ford
- 1887: Charles Sherrill
- 1888Note 1: Fred Westing
Amateur Athletic Union
- 1888Note 1: Fred Westing
- 1889-90: John Owen
- 1891: Luther Cary
- 1892: Harry Jewett
- 1893: Charles Stage
- 1894: Tom Lee
- 1895-97: Bernie Wefers
- 1898: Frank Jarvis
- 1899: Arthur Duffey
- 1900: Maxie Long
- 1901: Frank Sears
- 1902: Pat Walsh
- 1903: Archie Hahn
- 1904: Lawson Robertson
- 1905: Charles Parsons
- 1906: Charles Seitz
- 1907: Harold Huff
- 1908: William Hamilton
- 1909: William Martin
- 1910: James Rosenberger
- 1911: Gwin Henry
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- 1914-15: Jo Loomis
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- 1918: Arthur Henke
- 1919: William Hayes
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- 1921: Charley Paddock
- 1922: Robert McAllister
- 1923: Loren Murchison
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- 1925: Frank Hussey
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- 1928OT: Frank Wykoff
- 1929-30: Eddie Tolan
- 1931: Frank Wykoff
- 1932OT: Ralph Metcalfe
- 1933-34: Ralph Metcalfe
- 1935: Eulace Peacock
- 1936: Jesse Owens
- 1937: Perrin Walker
- 1938: Ben Johnson
- 1939: Clyde Jeffrey
- 1940: Harold Davis
- 1941: Barney Ewell
- 1942-43: Harold Davis
- 1944: Buddy Young
- 1945: Barney Ewell
- 1946-47: Bill Mathis
- 1948: Barney Ewell
- 1949: Andy Stanfield
- 1950: Art Bragg
- 1951: Jim Golliday
- 1952: Dean Smith
- 1953-54: Art Bragg
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- 1957: Leamon King
- 1958: Bobby Morrow
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- 1961: Frank Budd
- 1962-64: Bob Hayes
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- 1966: Charles Greene
- 1967: Jim Hines
- 1968: Charles Greene
- 1969-70: Ivory Crockett
- 1971: Del Meriwether
- 1972: Robert Taylor
- 1973-74: Steve Williams
- 1975: Don Quarrie (JAM) * Steve Williams
- 1976: Chris Garpenborg (SWE) *Robert Woods
- 1977: Don Quarrie (JAM) * Steve Williams
- 1978: Clancy Edwards
- 1979: James Sanford
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Stanley Floyd
- 1981-83: Carl Lewis
- 1984: Sam Graddy
- 1985: Kirk Baptiste
- 1986: Carl Lewis
- 1987: Mark Witherspoon
- 1988: Emmit King
- 1989: Leroy Burrell
- 1990: Carl Lewis
- 1991: Leroy Burrell
- 1992OT: Dennis Mitchell
USA Track & Field
- 1993: Andre Cason
- 1994: Dennis Mitchell
- 1995: Michael Marsh
- 1996OT: Dennis Mitchell
- 1997: Maurice Greene
- 1998: Tim Harden
- 1999: Dennis Mitchell
- 2000OT: Maurice Greene
- 2001: Bernard Williams
- 2002: Maurice Greene
- 2003: Bernard Williams
- 2004OT: Maurice Greene
- 2005: Justin Gatlin
- 2006-08OT: Tyson Gay
- 2009: Mike Rodgers
- 2010-11: Walter Dix
- 2012OT-13: Justin Gatlin
- 2014: Mike Rodgers
- 2015: Tyson Gay
- 2016OT: Justin Gatlin
- 2017: Justin Gatlin
- 2018: Noah Lyles
- 2019: Christian Coleman
- 20212020 OT: Trayvon Bromell
- 2022: Fred Kerley
- 2023: Cravont Charleston
- Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championships
- OT: The 1920, 1928, 1932, and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Distance:Until 1927 the event was over 100 yards, and again from 1929-31
- ro:In 1886 the event was won after a run-off