Mel triplet

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Mel triplet
Position (s):
running back 		Jersey number (s):
33
born December 24, 1930 in Indianola , Mississippi
died on July 25, 2002 in Toledo , Ohio
Career information
Active : 1955 - 1962
NFL Draft : 1955 / Round: 5 / Pick: 56
College : Toledo
Teams
Career statistics
yards run     2,856
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards
  • NFL Winner (1956)
  • Jersey number 82 withdrew from the Toledo Rockets

Melvin Christopher Triplett (born December 24, 1930 in Indianola , Mississippi , † July 25, 2002 in Toledo , Ohio ) was an American American football player. He played eight seasons as running back in the National Football League (NFL).

Career

Triplet played college football at the University of Toledo for the Toledo Rockets from 1951 to 1954 . Here he developed into a star player, although he was already the father of five children. In addition to studying and playing football, she worked 40 hours a week. Statistics for his first two seasons do not exist. As a junior he could achieve 5.9 yards per run and in his senior year he could achieve 5.2 yards per run for a total of 776 yards. He was elected first-team All-MAC in 1954 and was allowed to play in the College All-Star Game against the reigning NFL champions, the Cleveland Browns . For the 100th anniversary of the Rockets in 2017, Triplett was voted 8th in the All-Century Team. His jersey number 82 was banned as just one of four by the Rockets. The number withdrawn in September 1955 was the first number banned by the Rockets. He was inducted into the Greater Toledo Athletic Hall of Fame in 1964 and the Varsity 'T' Hall of Fame in 1983.

Triplet was selected in the fifth round of the 1955 NFL Draft by the New York Giants . He stayed in New York for six years and ran 2,289 yards during that time. He could run eleven touchdowns and catch three more. In 1956 he won the championship with the Giants in the 1956 NFL Championship Game . Triplet was chosen as the offensive player of the Giants game. In 1961 he was exchanged for the newly formed Minnesota Vikings . There he stayed for two seasons before moving to the Cleveland Browns in 1963 . There he did not make it into the team in the end.

Personal

Triplett was born the second of twelve children. His brother Bill Triplett played in the NFL for eleven seasons. He was divorced twice. On New Years Eve, his Detroit house burned down along with most of his football souvenirs. At Easter the year before, he suffered a gunshot wound in the hand in an argument with his then wife, but refused to have her arrested. After his career in professional football, he worked in a brewery and ran a state training program. His grandson Keith played basketball for the Rockets College. Mel Triplett died in July 2002 in a nursing home in Toledo, where he had been due to gangrene and diabetes since February 2002. At the time of his death, he was survived by five daughters, seven sons, eight sisters, a brother and over fifty grandchildren.

useful information

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar chose his shirt number after Triplett as Triplett was Abdul-Jabbar's favorite player.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mel Triplet, 71; Helped Giants Win '56 Title. The New York Times, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b John Robinson Block (Ed.): 100 Years of Toledo Football . Toledo Blade Company , 2017, ISBN 978-0-692-94023-5 , pp. 55 .
  3. ↑ a b Toledo U. Retires ex-star Mel Triplett's Number . In: Jet . tape 8 , no. 21 , September 29, 1955, ISSN  0021-5996 , p. 51 (In contrast to all other sources, the number 66 is used here instead of 82.).
  4. ^ Mel Triplett, Football (1951-54). Toledo Rockets, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ John Robinson Block (Ed.): 100 Years of Toledo Football . Toledo Blade Company , 2017, ISBN 978-0-692-94023-5 , pp. 6 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e UT football standout was star on '56 Giants team. The Blade, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Giants By The Numbers: 33 Is For ... SB Nation, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  8. ^ Birth of a very solvent baby. Sports Illustratet, September 4, 1961, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Talking with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Part II. The Los Angeles Times, accessed December 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Triplet, Mel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Triplet, Melvin Christopher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianola , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2002
Place of death Toledo , Ohio