1. Eugene Joseph Goodreault was an American football player.
10 Facts About Gene Goodreault
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Gene Goodreault played at the end position for Boston College from 1938 to 1940 and was selected as a consensus first-team All-American in 1940.
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Gene Goodreault was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982.
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The school's publicity director, Billy Sullivan befriended Gene Goodreault and helped him to obtain therapy to overcome a speech impediment.
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Gene Goodreault received first-team honors from, among others, the United Press, the International News Service, the Central Press Association, and Collier's Weekly.
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Gene Goodreault was selected in the second round in the 1941 NFL draft, but he did not play in the NFL.
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Gene Goodreault served in the United States Navy during World War II and operated a wool brokerage business in Massachusetts after the war.
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Gene Goodreault was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982.
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Gene Goodreault was honored by Boston College as one of the inaugural inductees into its Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1970.
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Gene Goodreault died from cancer in 2010 at age 91 in Orinda, California.