Doyle Tackett
| refer to caption Doyle Tacket with Fleet City, October 1944 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born: | August 23, 1923 Hector, Arkansas |
| Died: | September 7, 2002 (aged 79) Atkins, Arkansas |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight: | 205 lb (93 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Atkins (AR) |
| Position: | Halfback |
| Career history | |
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| Player stats at PFR | |
Doyle Lee Tackett (August 23, 1923 – September 7, 2002) was an American football halfback.
Tackett was born in Hector, Arkansas, in 1923 and attended Atkins High School in Atkins, Arkansas. He did not play college football.[1]
During World War II, Tackett served in the Navy. In 1944 and 1945, he starred at the halfback and fullback positions on the Navy's Fleet City Bluejackets football team in San Francisco. The undefeated 1945 Fleet City team featured an all-star lineup that included Tackett, Bruiser Kinard, Bill Daddio, Charlie O'Rourke, Steve Juzwik, and John Badaczewski, and was considered to be as good as the 1945 Army Cadets football team.
He played in the All-America Football Conference for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1946 to 1948. He appeared in 27 games, five of them as a starter, and caught 10 passes 216 receiving yards and two touchdowns.[1]
He died in 2002 in Atkins, Arkansas.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Doyle Tackett Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 2, 2020.