Bradley Streit


John Bradley "Bill" Streit was an American college football player.

Early years

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."

College football

Auburn

Streit competed in football, basketball, baseball, and track at Auburn University. He was a prominent fullback for the Auburn Tigers from 1909 to 1910.

1910

Streit led the school in touchdowns in 1910. He was a unanimous All-Southern player. Early in the season both Streit and Kirk Newell were injured. In the 26 to 0 victory over the Georgia Bulldogs, Streit scored two touchdowns. Streit assisted coaching the 1911 team.

Princeton

Streit then transferred to Princeton University and played for the Princeton Tigers football team from 1913 to 1915.

1913

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 which stood until 1967.

Later life and death

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. Bradley Streit Corp., an oil and gas exploration firm based in Toronto. Streit was a founder of Yellowknife Bear Mines Ltd. He died on June 30, 1978, at his home on Park Lane Circle in North York.