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Strode, Woody

LC control no.n 90618953
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Personal name headingStrode, Woody
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Birth date19140725
Death date19941231
Found inHis Goal dust, c1990: CIP t.p. (Woody Strode) bk. p. 1 (b. Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode in 1914)
IMDb, Sept. 7, 2010 (Woody Strode, b. July 25, 1914; d. December 31, 1994; An athlete turned actor, Strode was a top-notch decathlete and a football star at UCLA)
Atwood, Gretchen. Lost champions, 2016: ECIP galley ("In the spring of 1946 the NFL's Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington and Woody Strode. The Rams became the first NFL team to integrate and did so a year before Robinson was promoted to the major leagues in baseball. Several months after the Rams signed Washington and Strode, the Cleveland Browns inked Bill Willis and Marion Motley to contracts. These four men broke the color line in modern pro football.")