Joe Golding
Appearance
Date of birth | March 26, 1921 |
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Place of birth | Eufaula, Oklahoma |
Date of death | December 26, 1971 | (aged 50)
Place of death | Muskogee, Oklahoma |
Career information | |
Position(s) | Halfback / Defensive back |
US college | Oklahoma |
NFL draft | 1946 / round: 5 / Pick 31 (By the Chicago Cardinals) |
Career history | |
As player | |
1947–1948 | Boston Yanks |
1949–1951 | New York Bulldogs/Yanks |
Career stats | |
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Joseph Griffith Golding (March 26, 1921 – December 26, 1971) was a professional American Football halfback/defensive back in the National Football League. He played for the Boston Yanks (1947–1948) and the New York Bulldogs/Yanks (1949–1951).
His 1951 Bowman football card #115 relates the following: "In the service for 44 months. Won Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart. Commissioned on the battlefield while an infantry-man in Europe".
Categories:
- 1921 births
- 1971 deaths
- People from Eufaula, Oklahoma
- Players of American football from Oklahoma
- American football defensive backs
- American football halfbacks
- Oklahoma Sooners football players
- Boston Yanks players
- New York Bulldogs players
- New York Yanks players
- Recipients of the Silver Star
- United States Army officers
- United States Army soldiers
- American football defensive back, 1920s birth stubs