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Goal Dust Hardcover – June 4, 1990. Strode first achieved fame playing football at UCLA in the late 1930s with Kenny Washington and Jackie Robinson, the team that propelled that college into the gridiron big-time

Goal Dust Hardcover – June 4, 1990. by. Woody Strode (Author). Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Are you an author? Learn about Author Central. Strode first achieved fame playing football at UCLA in the late 1930s with Kenny Washington and Jackie Robinson, the team that propelled that college into the gridiron big-time. Later he played semi-pro football and was a professional wrestler. After World War II, he and Washington set a precedent as the first blacks in the National Football League in the modern era; when he was released, Strode played football in Canada.

Goal Dust exceeded my expectations. I only knew him from John Ford westerns. This is a great book for those of us who have seen Woody Strode on film and wondered about who he really wa. he marriage to an Hawaiian Princess and his off camera home life,his days atUCLA,and getting know by most of the Hollywood elite as a running back. The closeness with John Ford,John Wayne's mentor,and how Ford saved John Wayne's bacon when he got angry at Woody during filming of "The man wod shot Liberty Valance",when the Duke got mad at Ford and Lee Marvin,for his lack of military service.

truly a good and talented ma. .

Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was an American athlete and actor

Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was an American athlete and actor. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first African American players in the National Football League in the postwar era. After football, he went on to become a film actor, where he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Spartacus in 1960. He served in the United States Army during World War II.

Woodrow Wilson Strode's extraordinary career has led him from football field to wrestling ring to film locations around the world. Pioneering black athlete and film actor Woodrow Wilson Strode recalls his friendship with Jackie Robinson, his stint as professional wrestling's first black star, and his movie career.

Aka Woody, quite understandably, has written a book that is as questionable as it is engaging

Pioneering black athlete and film actor Woodrow Wilson Strode recalls his. Aka Woody, quite understandably, has written a book that is as questionable as it is engaging. I still haven't made up my mind if I want to trash the book or keep it forever. Woody had a memorable and diverse career, and I have no doubt his book could have been much thicker. Most of us will remember him as the gladiator who fought (and beat) Kirk Douglas as Spartacus.

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Woody Strode's extraordinary career led him from football field to wrestling ring to Hollywood. In 1939 Woody, Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington led UCLA to its first undefeated football season. After World War II Woody and Kenny Washington became the first blacks to play in the NFL. In 1950 Woody became pro wrestling's first black star, After that it was a small step to Hollywood where he appeared in such films as The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, and The Cotton Club. Sam Young and Woody Strode met while working on a televisions production. Woody Strode's extraordinary career led him from football field to wrestling ring to Hollywood.

Goal Dust: The Warm and Candid Memoirs of a Pioneer Black Athlete and Actor (1993). Woody" Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode. 26 October 2008 ·. Films.