Bradley Streit | |
School: | Princeton Tigers |
Currentposition: | Fullback |
Birth Date: | 18 December 1892 |
Birth Place: | Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
Death Place: | North York, Ontario, Canada |
Weight Lb: | 170 |
Pastschools: | |
Highlights: | All-Southern (1910) |
John Bradley "Bill" Streit (December 18, 1892 – June 30, 1978) was an American college football player.
John Bradley Streit was born on December 18, 1892, in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of a prominent builder. "He grew up in the give-and-take life of a family of nine."[1]
Streit competed in football, basketball, baseball, and track at Auburn University.[1] He was a prominent fullback for the Auburn Tigers from 1909 to 1910.
Streit led the school in touchdowns in 1910.[2] He was a unanimous All-Southern player.[3] [4] Early in the season both Streit and Kirk Newell were injured.[5] In the 26 to 0 victory over the Georgia Bulldogs, Streit scored two touchdowns.[6] Streit assisted coaching the 1911 team.
Streit then transferred to Princeton University and played for the Princeton Tigers football team from 1913 to 1915.[7]
In the 1913 game with Fordham he scored four touchdowns and four extra points in a 69 to 0 victory, setting a school record for points by an individual in a game (28) which stood until 1967.[8]
Streit worked at a salesman for Studebaker and for W. E. Hutton & Co.., a stock brokerage firm on Wall Street. He moved to Canada in 1934 and became a Canadian citizen. He was the president J. Braadley Streit Corp., an oil and gas exploration firm based in Toronto. Streit was a founder of Yellowknife Bear Mines Ltd.[9] He died on June 30, 1978, at his home on Park Lane Circle in North York.[10]