[1] Goullet – pronounced to rhyme with roulette[2] – was born in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, and grew up in Emu, 240 km (150 mi) north of Melbourne.

[3] He landed at New York in winter 1910 "in a snowstorm, wearing a sleeveless shirt and a straw hat because it was summer at home.

[3] A reporter there wrote: Alfred Goullet, sensation of the cycle racing world, declares that the women of Salt Lake are the most beautiful he has ever seen.

[2]That winter, Goullet won the first Paris six-day race, paired with Joe Fogler of Brooklyn.

He returned to America, and in November 1914 won the six-day at Madison Square Garden, paired with another Australian, Alfred Grenda.

He wrote in the Saturday Evening Post after his first six-day race in New York: My knees were sore, I was suffering from stomach trouble, my hands were so numb I couldn't open them wide enough to button my collar for a month, and my eyes were so irritated I couldn't, for a long time, stand smoke in a room.

Historian Peter Nye says a National Football League franchise could be bought at the time for a few hundred dollars.

[2] At his peak, he earned more than the $20,000 paid to baseball's Babe Ruth in the year he hit 54 home runs for the Yankees.