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as part of the hall's fourth class in 1979. He died on April 16, 1979, the day of his induction, at the age of 77. He later was posthumously inducted into the
Delaware Afro-American Sports Hall of Fame in 2000, as part of the second class. A youth football league based in Wilmington was named in his
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