About Joe Watt
Lived 1919 – 1983 (aged 64). Joe Watt was an American american football player.
Joseph Chessar Watt (June 18, 1919 – June 27, 1983) was an American football halfback who played professionally for three seasons in the National Football League (NFL
Watt was born in Montreal and attended Erasmus High School in Brooklyn. He played college football and college baseball at Syracuse University. Watt served as a lieutenant in the United States Army during World War II and was a member of the 1944 Camp Lee Travellers football team.
Watt was selected by the Boston Yanks as the 47th pick in the seventh round of the 1947 NFL draft. He later played for the Detroit Lions and the New York Bulldogs.
Watt later worked for the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company for over 20 years. He was the founder and president of the Joseph C. Watt Distributing Co. in Ithaca, New York until his retirement in 1982. Watt died on June 27, 1983, at Tomkins Community Hospital, in Ithaca.
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Who was Joe Watt?
American football player (1919-1983)
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Joe Watt was born on 18 June 1919 in Montreal.
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Joe Watt died on 27 June 1983.
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Joe Watt was an american football player.
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Joe Watt was American.
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