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Former running back and defensive back Ralph Goldston, one of the first African-American players for the Eagles, died Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, the team announced. He was 82.
Goldston played in 27 games for the Eagles from 1952-55 after being selected in the 11th round of the 1952 draft. His best season in the NFL came in 1952 when he ran 65 times for 210 yards and three touchdowns.
Goldston also played 10 seasons in the Canadian Football League with Hamilton and Montreal. He helped the Hamilton Tiger Cats earn two Grey Cup championships in 1957 and 1963.
Goldston, a native of Campbell, Ohio, is a member of the Youngstown State University Athletic Hall of Fame.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah, one son, Ralph Jr., three daughters, Ursula, Beverly and Monique, and five grandchildren. The funeral will take place on Saturday, July 16 at Sterling McCullough Williams Funeral Home (632 Belmont Avenue, Youngstown, OH 44502).
Les
Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News
since 2002.
Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les
only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no
penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite
what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News
from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much
lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their
two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
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Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with the paper covering the
Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a
selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre
and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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