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Ed Boell
Boell at NYU
PositionQuarterback, halfback
Personal information
Born:March 6, 1917
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died:March 14, 1998 (age 81)
Palm Beach County, Florida, U.S.[1]
Career history
CollegeNYU
Career highlights and awards
  • First-team All-Eastern (1939)

Edward H. Boell (March 6, 1917 - March 14, 1998) was an American football player, coach, and official.

Boell was born in

Chicago College All-Star Game
. He also played for the NYU baseball team as a right-handed pitcher, compiling a 17–7 win-loss record.

Boell was selected by the

Great Neck High School and was chosen by Newsday as 1944 "Coach of the Year".[4] He resigned as football coach at Great Neck in April 1946, citing health problems with his sinus as motivation for a move to Florida.[5]

Boell moved to Florida in 1946, where he taught and coached at Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda,[6][7] and later at Palm Beach High School, and became a basketball and baseball official.

Boell was inducted into both the NYU Hall of Fame in 1976 and the Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.[8] He died in 1998 at age 81, after battling emphysema and cirrhosis of the liver.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Ed Boell". Pro Football Archives. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
  2. ^ Chuck Otterson (July 20, 1997). "Reflections from a Hall of Fame life". The Palm Beach Post. p. 9C.
  3. ^ "1940 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
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