Joe Watt
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| Positions | Halfback, defensive back | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | June 18, 1919 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Died | June 27, 1983 (aged 64) Ithaca, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 184 lb (83 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| High school | Erasmus Hall (Brooklyn, New York) | ||||||||||||||
| College | Syracuse | ||||||||||||||
| NFL draft | 1947: 7th round, 47th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
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Joseph Chessar Watt (June 18, 1919 – June 27, 1983) was an American football halfback who played professionally for three seasons in the National Football League (NFL
Watt was born in Montreal and attended Erasmus High School in Brooklyn. He played college football and college baseball at Syracuse University. Watt served as a lieutenant in the United States Army during World War II and was a member of the 1944 Camp Lee Travellers football team.[1]
Watt was selected by the Boston Yanks the 47th pick in the seventh round of the 1947 NFL draft and later played for the Detroit Lions and the New York Bulldogs.
Watt later worked for the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company for over 20 years. He was the founder and president of the Joseph C. Watt Distributing Co. in Ithaca, New York until his retirement in 1982. Watt died on June 27, 1983, at Tomkins Community Hospital, in Ithaca.[2]
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[edit | edit source]- Career statistics from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference
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- 1919 births
- American football halfbacks
- Players of American football from Quebec
- Boston Yanks players
- 1983 deaths
- American football defensive backs
- Camp Lee Travellers football players
- Detroit Lions players
- New York Bulldogs players
- Syracuse Orange football players
- Syracuse Orangemen baseball players
- United States Army officers
- United States Army personnel of World War II
- Erasmus Hall High School alumni
- Sportspeople from Brooklyn
- Gridiron football people from Montreal
- Players of American football from New York City
- Baseball players from New York City
- Military personnel from New York City
- Anglophone Quebec people
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football running back, 1910s birth stubs