{{Short description|American football player (1907–1991)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox NFL biography | name = Royce Goodbread | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | number = 42 | position = Halfback, wingback, fullback | birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|8|23|mf=y}} | birth_place = Crystal River, Florida | death_date = {{Death date and age|1991|5|19|1907|8|23|mf=y}} | death_place = Dallas, Texas | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 11 | weight_lbs = 207 | high_school = St. Petersburg (FL) | college = Florida | pastteams = * Frankford Yellow Jackets ({{NFL Year|1930}}) * Minneapolis Red Jackets ({{NFL Year|1930}}) * Providence Steam Roller ({{NFL Year|1931}}) | highlights = | statleague = NFL | statlabel1 = Games played | statvalue1 = 18 | statlabel2 = Games started | statvalue2 = 14 | pfr = GoodRo20 }}
'''Royce Ethelbert Goodbread''' (August 23, 1907 – May 19, 1991) was an American college and professional football player who was a halfback and wingback in the National Football League (NFL) for two seasons during the early 1930s. Goodbread played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Frankford Yellow Jackets, the Minneapolis Red Jackets and the Providence Steam Roller of the NFL.
== Early years ==
Goodbread was born in Crystal River, Florida in 1907,<ref name=pfrprofile>Pro-Football-Reference.com, Players, [https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GoodRo20.htm Royce Goodbread]. Retrieved April 20, 2011.</ref> and attended St. Petersburg High School in St. Petersburg, Florida,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1991/05/23/royce-goodbread-84-was-star-football-player/|title=Royce Goodbread, 84, was star football player|website=Tampa Bay Times}}</ref><ref name=dbfprofile>databaseFootball.com, Players, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20111123034536/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=GOODBROY01 Royce Goodbread]}}. Retrieved April 20, 2011.</ref> and he played for the St. Petersburg Green Devils high school football team. In 1925 he accounted for 189 points,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19290929&id=DpAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yE0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4981,3214496&hl=en|work=St. Petersburg Times|date=September 29, 1929|author=Frank S. Wright|title=Goodbread Is One Of Gators' Chief Threats}}</ref> and led his team to a win over rival Hillsborough High School.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19321101&id=tvNPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1FQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5487,2653632&hl=en|author=Jeff Moshier|title=Terriers And Green Devils Grid Rivals For Past 17 Years|date=November 1, 1923|work=The Evening Independent}}</ref>
== College career ==
After graduating from high school, Goodbread attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Tom Sebring and coach Charlie Bachman's Florida Gators football teams from 1927 to 1929.<ref name=ufmediaguide>''[http://web.gatorzone.com/football/media/2011/media_guide.pdf 2011 Florida Gators Football Media Guide] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402035222/http://web.gatorzone.com/football/media/2011/media_guide.pdf |date=April 2, 2012 }}'', University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 104 & 181 (2011). Retrieved August 29, 2011.</ref> In Goodbread's three seasons as a member of the Gators varsity, the team posted win–loss records of 7–3, 8–1 and 8–2—a three-year peak for the Gators which they would not equal or exceed for over six decades. Goodbread was a key member of the Gators' "Phantom Four" offensive backfield that included Carl Brumbaugh, Rainey Cawthon and Clyde Crabtree, when the 1928 Gators led the country with 336 points scored and finished 8–1, losing only to the Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville by a single point, 13–12.<ref>"[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=11YbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8koEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3901,3616419&dq=dale+van+sickle&hl=en Florida Gets Good At Gridiron Sport]," ''The Pittsburgh Press'' (December 4, 1928). Retrieved January 19, 2013.</ref><ref name=mcewen>Tom McEwen, ''The Gators: A Story of Florida Football'', The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama, pp. 86–103 (1974).</ref>
Goodbread graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1930.
== Professional career ==
During the {{NFL Year|1930}} NFL season, Goodbread played in thirteen games for the Frankford Yellow Jackets and one game for the Minneapolis Red Jackets,<ref name=nflprofile>National Football League, Historical Players, [http://www.nfl.com/players/roycegoodbread/profile?id=GOO046142 Royce Goodbread]. Retrieved April 20, 2011.</ref> and starting in a total of ten of them.<ref name=pfrprofile/> In the following {{NFL Year|1931}} season, he played in four games for the Providence Steam Roller and started in two of them.<ref name=pfrprofile/>
Goodbread was an insurance agent in Dallas, Texas.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19671116&id=2D9QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O1cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2441,3036891&hl=en|work=The Evening Independent|date=November 16, 1967|title=Quotable Quotes}}</ref> He died on May 19, 1991; he was 83 years old.
== See also ==
{{Portal|American football|College football}} * Florida Gators football, 1920–29 * List of University of Florida alumni {{clear}}
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