Gerald Snyder

Gerald Theodore "Snitz" Snyder was an American football player and Army officer, born in Windber, Pennsylvania, in 1905. He played college football and lacrosse at the University of Maryland, where he scored the only Maryland touchdown against Yale in 1927 on a 90-yard punt return and was named a second-team All-American in 1928, only the second Maryland player so honored. He then played two seasons in the National Football League, with the New York Giants in 1929 and the Staten Island Stapletons in 1930, and later served as an assistant coach of the Frankford Legion. He served in the United States Army in the Second World War and the Korean War, reaching the rank of major, and was inducted posthumously into the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984.