Gene Olaff, who was the leading American goalkeeper of the 1940s, and who has been a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame since 1971, died Tuesday night in Florence, N.J. He was 96 years old. Gene, who was a New Jersey state policeman from the 1940s to the 1980s, spent most of his pro career with Brooklyn Hispano of the American Soccer League, which he played for from 1941 to 1953. He was the goalkeeper for the Hispano teams that won the U.S. Open Cup in both 1943 and 1944, as well as the ASL title in 1943. His only cap came in 1949, when he played for the United States in a friendly against Scotland in New York. His national-team career was limited both by his police career and the fact that the United States didn't play any full internationals between 1937 and 1947.