Dick Poillon
 Poillon on a 1948 Bowman football card | |||||||||||||||
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| Positions | Halfback, defensive back, placekicker, punter | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | August 13, 1920 Queens, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | November 14, 1994 (aged 74) West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 193 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| High school | Valley Stream Central (Valley Stream, New York) | ||||||||||||||
| College | Canisius (1940) | ||||||||||||||
| NFL draft | 1942: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
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Richard Charles Poillon (August 13, 1920 – November 14, 1994) was an American professional football halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He scored a career 247 points and was the Redskins' leading scorer for three years.
Raised in Valley Stream, New York, he attended Valley Stream Central High School, where he played baseball, basketball and football, as a quarterback, kicker, punter and kick / punt returner. He was inducted into the Nassau County High School Athletics Hall of Fame in 2022.[1] He attended Canisius College.
Poillon was voted one of the Redskins' "Top 100 players" of all time by a poll by The Washington Post. He had held the Redskins' record with an interception returned for 93 yards and a touchdown set against the Philadelphia Eagles on November 21, 1948,[2] and broken on December 26, 1987, with a 100-yard return by Barry Wilburn.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ 2022 Nassau County High School Hall of Fame Inductees, Nassau County High School Athletics Hall of Fame. Accessed February 4, 2024. "Three-sport star at Valley Stream Central in the 1930s. Played basketball and baseball but excelled in football. He ran, passed, punted, kicked field goals and ran back punts and kickoffs."
- ↑ Washington Redskins at Philadelphia Eagles - November 21, 1948, Pro-Football-Reference.com. Accessed February 4, 2024.
- ↑ via United Press International. "'Skins halt Vikings in OT", The Daily Spectrum, December 27, 1987. Accessed February 4, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "In the second period, Wilburn picked off a Wilson pass on the Washington goal line and raced 100 yards for a TD. The interception return broke a Redskins' record of 93 yards, set by Dick Poillon against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1948."
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