Johnny Counts

Running back, American football player

1939 – 2004

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Who was Johnny Counts?

Johnny Counts was a professional American football player who played running back for two seasons for the New York Giants. He also played in the Canadian Football League for the Hamilton Tiger Cats, scoring a touchdown in the 1964 Grey Cup, a game which saw the BC Lions beat Hamilton 34–24.

Counts was an All-County running back at New Rochelle High School in 1957. He and his wife Vivian had 2 sons and a daughter.

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Born
Feb 28, 1939
New Rochelle
Education
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Lived in
  • New Rochelle
Died
Feb 21, 2004

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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