Gordon K. Wilson was a professional football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 in the National Football League

National Football League

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 and the third American Football League

American Football League (1940)

American Football League, also known as the AFL III to distinguish it from earlier organizations of that name, was a major professional American football league that operated from 1940-1941...

. He was drafted by the Cleveland Rams

Cleveland Rams

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 in 1941 and played that season with the Rams and the Columbus Bullies

Columbus Bullies

The Columbus Bullies were a professional football team founded by Phil H. Bucklew in Columbus, Ohio in 1938. The Bullies started out as a member of the American Professional Football Association in 1939. Later, in 1940, the Bullies joined the Cincinnati Bengals and Milwaukee Chiefs in leaving the...

 of the AFL. In 1942 and 1943, Wilson played with the Chicago Cardinals, before leaving the team to split the 1944 season between the Brooklyn Tigers and Boston Yanks

Boston Yanks

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. He returned to Chicago in 1945 for his final season.