Johnny Counts
Appearance
Date of birth | February 28, 1939 |
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Place of birth | New Rochelle, New York |
Date of death | February 21, 2004 | (aged 64)
Career information | |
Position(s) | RB |
US college | University of Illinois |
Career history | |
As player | |
1962–63 | New York Giants |
1964–65 | Hamilton Tiger-Cats |
1966 | Toronto Argonauts |
Honors | Grey Cup champion - 1965 |
Career stats | |
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Johnny Counts (February 28, 1939, in New Rochelle, New York – February 21, 2004) was a professional American football player who played running back for two seasons for the New York Giants. He also played in the Canadian Football League for the Hamilton Tiger Cats, scoring a touchdown in the 1964 Grey Cup, a game which saw the BC Lions beat Hamilton 34–24.
Counts was an All-County running back at New Rochelle High School in 1957. He and his wife Vivian had 2 sons and a daughter.
Categories:
- 1939 births
- 2004 deaths
- People from New Rochelle, New York
- Players of American football from New York
- American football running backs
- Illinois Fighting Illini football players
- New York Giants players
- Hamilton Tiger-Cats players
- Toronto Argonauts players
- Grey Cup champions
- American football running back, 1930s birth stubs