Hardiman Cureton
Guard, American football player
1933 – 2003
Who was Hardiman Cureton?
Hardiman Cureton is an American former player of Canadian football.
He played high school football for the Monrovia Wildcats. He played the tackle position.
Cureton was a dominant offensive guard and also played on the defensive line for three seasons on UCLA football teams that went 26-4 and captured three Pacific Coast Conference championships and participated in two Rose Bowls. During the 1954 national championship season, Cureton was named second-team All-Coast and honorable mention All-American. As a senior in 1955, Cureton became the Bruins' fifth-ever consensus first-team All-American as well as being named all-conference and team captain—the first African-American captain to lead a UCLA football team. In 1955, Cureton was selected to play in the Hula Bowl and later played for nine years in the Canadian Football League for Toronto, Ottawa and Hamilton.
Cureton was traded to Hamilton by Ottawa on August 15, 1960 for Angelo Mosca. Cureton had become a successful ice cream salesman in Toronto and had threatened legal action against the Rough Riders if they did not give him his release. With the trade, he was able to keep both his football job and his ice cream job.
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- Born
- Dec 8, 1933
Duarte - Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Lived in
- Duarte
- Died
- Oct 1, 2003
Richmond
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on July 23, 2013
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