Young Wolfson
Wolfson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but his family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, when he was one year old.
The child of Jewish-Lithuanian immigrants, Wolfson and his seven siblings grew up in Jacksonville, where his father was a junk man/scrap metal dealer. In his teens, he boxed professionally under the name "Kid Wolf", earning from $25 to $100 per fight. Wolfson was an outstanding athlete and an All-Southern end for Jacksonville's Andrew Jackson High School, who went to the University of Georgia to play football. He left the university after two years, never graduating. After dropping out of college, he raised $10,000: half from a wealthy Georgia football fan, Harold Hirsch, and half from his family.
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