Julius "Goldie" Goldman (September 22, 1910 – February 19, 2001) was an American-Canadian football and basketball player, coach, and referee, college athletics administrator, engineer, and educator.
[1] Goldman was attended Windsor-Walkerville Tech—later known as W. D. Lowe High School—in Windsor, Ontario, where he starred in four sports: basketball, baseball, ice hockey, and track.
[5] The Rules Committee adopted his suggestion with the lone objecting vote coming from basketball's creator, James Naismith.
This rule change has been credited with modernizing basketball, speeding up the pace of the game, increasing scoring, and making teams with shorter centers more competitive.
In 1941, he succeeded Hal Shields as Detroit Tech's athletic director and head football coach.
Goldman had Detroit Tech's basketball teams to a record of 143–75, including a 16–4 mark in his final season, 1943–44.
He developed the 155 mm howitzer anti-tank shell that to Germany's "invincible" Tiger tanks during World War II.