Temple University Athletics
2017 Football Roster
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Roster
Matt Hennessy
- Position:
- Offensive Line
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 295
- Class:
- Redshirt Freshman
- Hometown:
- Bardonia, N.Y.
- High School:
- Don Bosco Prep
Honors: 2019 - Midseason First Team All-Amercian (PFF) ... Midseason Second Team All-Amercian (AP)  ... Rimington Award Watch List ... Wuerffel Trophy Watch List ... Offensive Player of the Game (ECU) ... 2018 - American Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year ... Parliament Spirit Award for Football by Temple Athletics ... Temple Owl Club Academic Award ... First Team All-ECAC ... APEX Predator Offensive Player of the Game (Cincinnati) ... CoSIDA Academic All-America Team Nominee ... #theSTANDARD Player of the Game (Tulsa, Boston College, ECU, Navy, UConn) ... Rimington Award Watch List ... American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team ... Athletic Director’s Honor Roll ... 2017 - ECAC First Team All-East ... APEX Predator Offensive Player of the Game (Houston) ... #theSTANDARD Player of the Game (ND, Villanova, Houston, ECU, Navy, Cincinnati, Tulsa, FIU) ... Rimington Award Watch List ... President’s Honor Roll ... 2016 - American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team ... Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
2019 (Redshirt Junior): Entered the season the starter at center and leader of the offensive line ... the Owls started the same five linemen in each of the first seven games of the season before Hennessy missed game 8.
2018 (Redshirt Sophomore): Started wearing the single digit #3 on his jersey in practice and on his helmet during games (Temple awards single-digit jerseys to the toughest players on the team) ... entered season as starter at center and served as the linchpin for a young offensive line that plays true freshmen at RT and LTÂ ... according to PFF, had the lowest rate of pressures allowed (0.6%) in the regular season among all FBS centers, allowing zero sacks and just two pressures in 329 pass blocks ... started games 1-9 ... left game with an injury at #9 UCF and missed games 10 and 11 ... returned in regular season finale at UConn and played in Independence Bowl vs. Duke.
2017 (Redshirt Freshman): Made first start at center on opening day at Notre Dame and started all but one game ... injury sidelined him week 8 vs. Army.
2016 (Freshman): Was part of the 2016 recruiting class ... was the top backup at center (one of only two true freshmen on the two-deep) ... saw first game action vs. Stony Brook ... got first start of his career at LG vs. Charlotte ... redshirted.Â
High School: Versatile two-way starter at offensive tackle and on the defensive line for head coach Greg Toal at Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.J. … team captain and helped lead team to non-public Group IV New Jersey state title as a senior … ranked #33 player out of the state of New Jersey ... played on the USA U-19 Team ... was a teammate of former Owls’ QB Frank Nutile.
Personal: Born Matthew Connor Hennessy in Nyack, N.Y. ... parents are Andrea and Tom Hennessy ... has an older brother Thomas (24) who played at Duke and now plays for the NY Jets ... part of the Japan 8 (8 Temple players who traveled to Japan in the spring for a week of football clinics ... took a week-long class in Rome as part of Temple’s STHM (Sports, Tourism, Hospitality Management) program in the 2019 spring ... graduated with a finance degree in spring of 2019.
