Best college football players of all time from every state

New York – Ed Marinaro

New York hasn’t been a hotbed for college football production in recent years, but due to the close proximity of the birthplace of college football—New Jersey, many great New Yorkers were vital pieces of teams in the early days of college football, some being among the first All-Americans.

Ed Marinaro may be mostly lost to modern-day college football due to the unfortunate positioning of his career between stars of college football’s early days, and those of the 1980s, but he takes the spot as New York’s representative on this list.

Marinaro set an NCAA record with 4,715 rushing yards in just three seasons at New York, which serves as the name of both his home state and hometown and set a whopping fifteen other records in his time in college.

Freshman weren’t varsity players at the time, but in his first official season as a sophomore, Marinaro ran for 1,409 yards as a sophomore, 1,425 as a junior, and 1,425 as a senior. These stats, as impressive as they already are, come with the fact that Marinaro only played nine games per season due to Ivy League rules, averaging an awesome 174.6 rushing yards per game, placing him well within the of 50 of all time in yards per season. He found the end zone 50 times in his three years, with 24 of those coming as a senior. This made him an All-American, and runner-up for the Heisman.