Stone Johnson

{{Short description|American sprinter and football player (1940–1963)}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Stone Johnson

| image = Stone Johnson (cropped).jpg

| number = 33

| position = Running back

| birth_date = April 26, 1940

| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|09|8|1940|04|26}}

| death_place = Wichita, Kansas, U.S.

| height_ft =

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| high_school =

| college = Grambling State

| afldraftyear = 1963

| afldraftround = 14

| afldraftpick = 105

| pastteams =

Kansas City Chiefs ({{NFL Year|1963}})*

| highlights =

Kansas City Chiefs No. 33 retired

}}

Stone Edward Johnson (April 26, 1940 — September 8, 1963) was an American sprinter and professional football player. He played as a kick returner and running back for the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League (AFL) during the 1963 preseason.

On August 30, 1963, the rookie Johnson, a 200-meter track finalist in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and former world record holder, suffered a fractured vertebra in his neck in a preseason game against the Houston Oilers in Wichita, Kansas during a kickoff return. He died 10 days later, on September 8, at the age of 23.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2205&dat=19630914&id=7wknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2gIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=626,5381609&hl=en |title=Stone Johnson dies of broken neck |journal=The Baltimore Afro-American |date=September 14, 1963 |page=23 |access-date=July 12, 2021}} Although he was only on the team's active roster during preseason, his jersey number 33 was retired.{{cite web

| title =Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame

| publisher =Kansas City Chiefs

| url =http://www.kcchiefs.com/team/chiefs-history/hall-of-fame.html

| access-date =2011-06-28

| archive-date =2015-11-17

| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20151117125113/http://www.kcchiefs.com/team/chiefs-history/hall-of-fame.html

| url-status =dead

}}{{cite web

| title = Chiefs History: 1960's

| publisher = Kansas City Chiefs

| url = http://www.kcchiefs.com/team/chiefs-history/1960s.html

| access-date = 2011-06-28