Biographical details | |
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Born | Mayesville, South Carolina, U.S. | September 22, 1910
Died | February 19, 2001 Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S. | (aged 90)
Playing career | |
Football | |
c. 1928–1931 | Detroit Tech |
Basketball | |
c. 1928–1932 | Detroit Tech |
Position(s) | Quarterback (football) Forward (basketball) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1936–1940 | Detroit Tech (assistant) |
1941 | Detroit Tech |
Basketball | |
1932–1944 | Detroit Tech |
1936 | Canada (assistant) |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1941–1944 | Detroit Tech |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 0–7–1 (football) 143–75 (basketball) |
Julius "Goldie" Goldman (September 22, 1910 – February 19, 2001) was an American-Canadian football and basketball player, coach, and referee, college athletics administrator, engineer, and educator. He played several sports at the Detroit Institute of Technology (Detroit Tech), before serving as the school's head basketball coach, head football coach, and athletic director. Goldman was also an assistant coach for the Canadian basketball team at the 1936 Summer Olympics and Canada's representative on the 1936 Olympic Basketball Rules Committee. His suggestion to a eliminate the jump ball after every field goal was adopted, and contributed to the modernization of the game. Goldman worked as a munitions engineer during World War II and then as an engineering executive after the war. He taught math at Detroit Tech and later at Oakland Community College in Oakland County, Michigan. Goldman was also a longtime basketball and football official for the Detroit Catholic Schools Association.