Winfield Gordon Gore (June 28, 1913 – January 21, 1987) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

halfback. He played two seasons professionally, one with the

Los Angeles Bulldogs The Los Angeles Bulldogs were a professional American football team that competed from 1936 to 1948 (the last year as the Long Beach Bulldogs). Formed with the intention of joining the National Football League in 1937 (and turned down in favor of ...

(for which he was named to the inaugural Pro All-Star Game) and one with the Detroit Lions of the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

. He played college football at

Southwestern Oklahoma State University Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) is a public university in Weatherford and Sayre, Oklahoma. It is one of six Regional University System of Oklahoma members. History SWOSU was first established through an act of the Oklahoma Ter ...

and attended Hominy High School in

Hominy, Oklahoma Hominy ( Osage: ''Hą́mąðį'' "night-walker") is a city in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 3,565 at the 2010 census, a 38 percent increase over the figure of 2,584 recorded in 2000. The town was the home of an all-Na ...

. He is sometimes referred to as "Wilfred Gore".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gore, Gordon 1913 births 1987 deaths Players of American football from Oklahoma American football halfbacks Southwestern Oklahoma State Bulldogs football players Detroit Lions players People from Clinton, Oklahoma People from Hominy, Oklahoma