Date of birth: April 26, 1940 Role Olympic athlete Place of birth: Dallas, Texas Weight 79 kg | Name Stone Johnson | |
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Date of death: September 8, 1963(1963-09-08) (aged 23) AFL draft: 1963 / Round: 14 / Pick: 105 Education Grambling State University | ||
Stone Johnson - Athletics Men's 200m - Summer Olympic Games 1960
Stone Edward Johnson (April 26, 1940 — September 8, 1963) was an Olympic sprinting athlete and American football kick returner and running back for the Kansas City Chiefs.
On August 30, 1963, the rookie Johnson, a 200m track finalist in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, suffered a fractured vertebra in his neck in a preseason game against the Houston Oilers in Wichita, Kansas during a kickoff return. He died 10 days later, on September 8 at the age of 23. Although he was only on the team's active roster during preseason, his jersey number 33 was retired.
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