William Brownell Goodwin (October 7, 1866 – May 17, 1950) was an American college football player and coach, track and field athlete, rowing coach, insurance executive, and archeologist.
[1] Goodwin officiated the first transcontinental football game, played on December 25, 1899, in San Francisco between California and Carlisle.
[2][3][4] Goodwin worked as an agent for the Aetna Fire Insurance Company in Columbus, Ohio and San Francisco before retiring around 1930.
In North Salem, New Hampshire he discovered a number of colonies of beehive huts similar to those built by Culdees of Northern Ireland.
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