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--- willie_boykin [2025/11/19 17:31] – [Logbook mentions] ehaight
+++ willie_boykin [2026/06/03 15:49] (current) – [Raiders Career] ehaight
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-<fs x-small>Photo: //Lansing State Journal//, September 17, 1959
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 ====== Willie Boykin ======
 William Boykin III\\
-Born 1934(?), Columbia, South Carolina(?)\\
+Born [[1934 calendar|1934]](?), Columbia, South Carolina(?)\\
-Died January 2010, Forestville, Maryand\\
+Died January [[2010 calendar|2010]], Forestville, Maryand\\
 ’4”, 245 lbs\\
 Michigan State University
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 After leaving the Raiders, Boykin largely disappeared from the limelight and probably football. He died in 2010, around the age of 76, leaving behind his wife, Mattie, and a son, William.
-===== Transactions =====
-November 22, 1959 - Selected by Minneapolis/St Paul in the 1959 AFL draft.
-January 4, 1960 - Signed by Houston sometime between this date and January 30.
-January 30, 1960 - AFL awarded his league signing rights to Oakland, potentially nullifyng his contract with Houston.
-March 3, 1960 - AFL transferred his contract from Houston to Oakland.
-August 2, 1960 - Waived.
 =====Raiders Career=====
-[[january-30-1960|Jan 30, 1960]]
+**1960**
-AFL signing rights assigned
-[[march-3-1960|Mar 3, 1960]]
-contract awarded to Oakland by AFL
+January 30 - AFL signing rights assigned\\
+March 3 - contract awarded to Oakland by AFL\\
+August 2 - waived

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