currentpositionplain finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date alt statseason pfr heightin death_place heightft image college debutteam name statlabel caption nflnew birth_place weight dbf highschool currentnumber article_title
defensive end 1953 21 september 1969 1946 97 cleveland browns 10 may 1924 a uniform publicity photo of young in a cleveland browns 1953 younge20 3 chicago , illinois 6 george_young , american football defensive end.jpg baldwin -- wallace , georgia cleveland browns george young games young while playing for the cleveland browns georgeyoung/2529551 wilkes-barre , pennsylvania 214 younggeo01 forty fort high school 52 , 82 george young -lrb- american football -rrb-

george young -lrb- american football -rrb-

george donald young -lrb- -- -rrb- was an american football defensive end who played eight seasons in the all-america football conference -lrb- aafc -rrb- and in the national football league with the cleveland browns .
he later was an umpire officiating in the american football league -lrb- afl -rrb- for its entire existence , from 1960 through 1969 .
he officiated in the first afl championship in 1960 and the first super bowl after the 1966 season .
young grew up in a poor family outside of wilkes-barre , pennsylvania .
he was a star athlete in high school , playing on his football team and winning a state heavyweight title in wrestling as a senior .
young attended the university of georgia and was on the bulldogs football team in 1941 and 1942 , when the school won the rose bowl .
he then spent three years in the military during world war ii and played service football as he trained in the u.s. navy .
he played in 1944 for paul brown , then the head football coach at a naval facility outside chicago .
after the war , brown became head coach of the cleveland browns in the aafc and signed young .
he played on the defensive line for the browns until his retirement in 1953 , a span during which the team won five league championships .
after his playing career , young worked as an executive at a utility in illinois and officiated in the afl .
he died of a brain tumor in 1969 .
