currentpositionplain finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date alt statseason pfr heightin death_place heightft number image college debutteam name statlabel caption nflnew birth_place weight dbf article_title
tackle 1948 14 august 1973 1946 28 cleveland browns 20 november 1919 a headshot of simonetti from his college years 1948 simole20 11 dennison , ohio 5 49 lenny simonetti , american football tackle.png university of tennessee cleveland browns lenny simonetti games simonetti during his college career at tennessee lensimonetti/2525683 roswell , ohio 225 simonlen01 lenny simonetti

lenny simonetti

leonard patrick `` meatball '' simonetti -lrb- november 20 , 1919 -- august 14 , 1973 -rrb- was an american football tackle who played three seasons in the all-america football conference -lrb- aafc -rrb- between 1946 and 1948 for the cleveland browns .
simonetti was a standout as a fullback at his ohio high school before switching to tackle while at the university of tennessee in the late 1930s and early 1940s .
after a stint in the u.s. army during world war ii , simonetti signed with the browns .
cleveland won the aafc championship in 1946 , repeating in 1947 and 1948 .
simonetti was sent to the baltimore colts in 1949 , but did not play for the team .
after leaving football , he became a weighmaster in ohio .
he died of a heart attack in 1973 .
