Joe Bellino
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| Position: | Halfback | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | March 13, 1938 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Winchester, Massachusetts | ||||||||
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| College: | Navy | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1961 / Round: 17 / Pick: 227 | ||||||||
| AFL draft: | 1961 / Round: 19 / Pick: 146 | ||||||||
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| Games played: | 35 |
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| Offensive yards: | 115 |
| Touchdowns: | 1 |
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Joseph Michael Bellino (born March 13, 1938) is a former American football halfback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1960 playing for the United States Naval Academy and later played in the American Football League (AFL) for the Boston Patriots. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1977.
Bellino was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, attended the town's public schools, and was a three-sport star at Winchester High School. In baseball he batted well over .400 and was courted by major league teams. He was offered a contract by the Pittsburgh Pirates after high school.
The basketball team on which he starred won the state championship his sophomore and junior years. They moved up to the Class A (largest schools) tournament his senior year, where the team's 55-game winning streak came to an end at the hands of much larger B.M.C. Durfee High School of Fall River.
He was a dominant halfback on Winchester's outstanding football team, although his senior season was shortened by the 1955 polio epidemic. He was recruited by several Big Ten schools, Notre Dame, Ivy League schools as well as the U.S. Military Academy, but his first choice all along was Navy.
During his 1956–57 year at Columbian Academy in Washington, D.C., Bellino starred in both football and basketball. On November 25, Bellino scored three touchdowns in Columbian's upset win over the Navy Plebes, 34–33.
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