Taliaferro, George, 1927-2018
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- Affiliation Start: 1950
- Affiliation End: 1951
- Source: Wikipedia, viewed Oct. 11, 2018
- Organization: New York Yanks (Football team)
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- Affiliation Start: 1949
- Source: Wikipedia, viewed Oct. 11, 2018
- Organization: Los Angeles Dons (Football team)
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Football
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Running backs (Football)
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found: Indiana University Special Assistant to the President's records, 1970-1983(George Taliaferro)
found: Ind. Univ. Archives files(George Taliaferro, b. 8 Jan. 1927; BS in phys. ed., 1951; MSW, Howard Univ., 1962)
found: Knight, D. Taliaferro, 2007:(George Taliaferro; Taliaferro) page 5 (born in Gates, Tennessee on January 8, 1927; moved to Gary, Indiana as an infant) cover, page 4 (star player on Indiana University's first great football team of 1945; became the first African American drafted by an NFL team)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 11, 2018(in obituary published Oct. 10: George Taliaferro; b. Jan. 8, 1927, Gates, Tenn.; moved with his parents to Gary, Ind. when he was very young; d. Monday [Oct. 8, 2018], Mason, Ohio, aged 91; all-American running back at Indiana University who was the first African-American drafted by a National Football League team)
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2001-12-11: new
2018-10-11: revised
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