Background
Goodbread was born in Crystal River, Florida in 1907, and attended Saint St. Petersburg High School in Saint St. Petersburg, Florida, and he played for the Saint St. Petersburg Green Devils high school football team
Goodbread was born in Crystal River, Florida in 1907, and attended Saint St. Petersburg High School in Saint St. Petersburg, Florida, and he played for the Saint St. Petersburg Green Devils high school football team
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.
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.
Goodbread graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor"s degree in physical education in 1930. During the 1930 NFL season, Goodbread played in thirteen games for the Frankford Yellow Jackets and one game for the Minneapolis Red Jackets, and starting in a total of ten of them. In the following 1931 season, he played in four games for the Providence Steam Roller and started in two of them.
Goodbread was an insurance agent in Dallas, Texas.
He died on May 19, 1991. He was 83 years old.
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.