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Name
  
Hardiman Cureton

Role
  
American football player

CFL status
  
International

Drafted by
  
Position(s)
  
G/LB


Hardiman Cureton

Date of birth
  
(1933-12-08)December 8, 1933

Date of death
  
October 1, 2003(2003-10-01) (aged 69)

Died
  
October 1, 2003, Richmond, Virginia, United States

Education
  
University of California, Los Angeles

NFL draft
  
1956 (Round: 26 / Pick: 312)

Place of birth
  
Place of death
  
Richmond, Virginia

Hardiman Cureton (December 8, 1933 - October 1, 2003) is an American former player of Canadian football.

Hardiman Cureton Hardiman Cureton Wikipedia

He played high school football for the Monrovia Wildcats. He played the tackle position.

Hardiman Cureton Hardiman Cureton 1933 2003 Find A Grave Memorial

Cureton was a dominant offensive guard and also played on the defensive line for three seasons (1953-54-55) 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 (in Hamilton) and his ice cream job.

Hardiman Cureton, OG 1956 Toronto Argonauts (CFL)

Hardiman Cureton, OG 1957 - 1959 Ottawa Rough Riders (CFL)

Hardiman Cureton, LB 1960 - 1964 Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL)

A plaque on the statue of Andres Duarte across from the City Hall of Duarte partially reads: Hardiman, Frances, Lucius, and the Curetons.

References

Hardiman Cureton Wikipedia


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