JULIUS
"GOLDIE" GOLDMAN
Sport: Basketball
Inducted: 1999
Country: Canada
Born: September 22, 1910, in Mayesville,
South Carolina
Died: February 19, 2001
Canada’s
representative on the 1936 Olympic Basketball Rules Committee,
Julius Goldman suggested the elimination of the basketball
rule that
called for a “jump ball” after every field
goal. The 1936 games marked basketball’s
first appearance in the Olympics. The Rules Committee agreed
with Goldman (the lone objecting vote was that of basketball
creator Dr.
James Naismith), and the game was forever changed. American-born and primarily Canadian-educated, Goldman
captained
the Windsor Fords team that won Canada’s 1935–36
national championship,
qualifying them to represent Canada in the 1936 Berlin
Olympics. However, Goldman’s U.S. citizenship made
him ineligible to
play for another country, so he was made an assistant coach
and appointed
Canada’s representative to the Olympic Basketball
Rules Committee.
The Canadian Basketball team won a silver medal.
Named the top student athlete at W. D. Lowe Secondary School
(formerly
Windsor-Walkerville) and a legendary college player and
coach at
Detroit Institute of Technology, “Goldie” was
elected to the Windsor-
Essex County Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.
An electrical engineer with a master’s in business
engineering and
member of “Mensa,” Goldman designed and developed
the 155-millimeter
howitzer anti-tank shell during World War II that allowed
the Allied
Forces to turn the 1944 tide against Germany’s “invincible” Tiger
tanks. |
