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Joel Hitt
American basketball and football player (1916–2003)
Joel Rueben Hitt Jr. (December 30, 1916 – June 2, 2003) was an American professional basketball and football player.[1][2] He played in the National Basketball League for the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots during the 1939–40 season and averaged 0.7 points per game.[1][3]
In football, he was selected in the 1939 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Rams (13th round, 113th overall).[4] He played for them in three games that season and accumulated 54 total yards of offense in his brief NFL career.[5]