Sneeze Achiu

Sneeze Achiu
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Achiu, circa 1938
Personal information
Born:(1902-08-03)August 3, 1902
Honolulu, Hawaii
Died:March 21, 1989(1989-03-21) (aged 86)
Eugene, Oregon
Height:5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight:169 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school:Saint Louis School
College:Dayton
Position:Running back
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Games played:11
Games started:5
Stats at Pro Football Reference

Walter Tin Kit "Sneeze"[1] Achiu (Chinese: 徐天杰[citation needed]) (August 3, 1902 – March 21, 1989) was an American football player of Chinese descent. He was a graduate of The Kamehameha Schools and Saint Louis College (now Saint Louis School) in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Achiu is most well known for being the first person of East Asian descent to play in the National Football League.[2] He was one of the first people of a minority to play in any major American professional sports league, preceding Jackie Robinson's entry to Major League Baseball by twenty years.

He was elected into the University of Dayton Athletic Hall of Fame in 1974.[3]

  1. ^ Archdeacon, Tom (September 3, 2002). "Dayton full of NFL history". The Cincinnati Post (Dayton Daily News). E. W. Scripps Company. Archived from the original on January 6, 2004.
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