Gene Heeter
Appearance
![]() Heeter from The Monticola, 1963 | |
No. 85 | |
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Position: | Tight end |
Personal information | |
Born: | Windber, Pennsylvania, U.S. | April 19, 1941
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
Weight: | 230 lb (104 kg) |
Career information | |
College: | West Virginia |
AFL draft: | 1963 / Round: 8 / Pick: 58 |
Career history | |
Player stats at PFR |
Eugene Elwood Heeter (born April 19, 1941) is an American former college and professional football player. He played tight end at West Virginia University, and professionally in the American Football League (AFL) for the New York Jets from 1963 through 1965. On September 12, 1964, he scored the first-ever touchdown in Flushing's Shea Stadium [1], catching a 16-yard pass from Dick Wood against the Denver Broncos[2]. Heeter was inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Long Island in the Football Category with the Class of 2016.
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/HeetGe00.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070930094151/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=HEETEGEN01
Categories:
- 1941 births
- Living people
- Players of American football from Johnstown, Pennsylvania
- American football tight ends
- West Virginia Mountaineers football players
- New York Jets players
- American Football League players
- People from Windber, Pennsylvania
- Sportspeople from Somerset County, Pennsylvania
- American football tight end, pre-1950 birth stubs