When Matt Quinn arrived on the SMU campus in the mid 1980’s there was no football program. One year after his 1987 graduation, the club football team he and a core group of students had helped form was elevated to varsity football status. Quinn is being inducted into the Corsair Hall Fame in the Founder category because he is representative of a group of athletes who were part of the earliest efforts to build a football program on the campus. As a junior in 1986, Matt Quinn played quarterback and free safety for the SMU club team, which posted a 6-2 record to share the NEFC title with defending national champion Providence College. As a senior the following year, Quinn co-captained SMU to a second NEFC championship and an appearance in the national tournament against St. John Fisher. Quinn finished the season as the top ranked passer in the conference and was twice named NEFC Player of the Week.