Joseph Chessar Watt (June 18, 1919 – June 27, 1983) was an American football halfback who played professionally for three seasons in the National Football League (NFL Watt was born in Montreal and attended Erasmus High School in Brooklyn.
Watt served as a lieutenant in the United States Army during World War II and was a member of the 1944 Camp Lee Travellers football team.
[1] Watt was selected by the Boston Yanks the 47th pick in the seventh round of the 1947 NFL draft and later played for the Detroit Lions and the New York Bulldogs.
He was the founder and president of the Joseph C. Watt Distributing Co. in Ithaca, New York until his retirement in 1982.
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