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died Position Team Last year played Service Details of death if available Mike Basca [1] 27 1944 Halfback: Philadelphia Eagles: 1941 Army: Killed when his tank was hit by a German 88. Charlie Behan [2] 24 1945 End: Detroit Lions: 1942 Marines: Killed in action during the Battle of Okinawa. Posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. Harry Benson [3 ...
Long unrecognized as the first NFL player to be killed in action in the Vietnam War, Steinbrunner was honored by the Browns on November 14, 2004. [8] Buffalo Bills ' guard Bob Kalsu , a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army with the 101st Airborne Division , was killed in action on July 21, 1970.
Included are players in professional and college football who have died of any cause. For professional football players, the most common cause of death is vehicle crashes. For college players, the most common cause of death is in-game and practice injuries. Each player is listed with the team to which he was assigned at the time of his death ...
This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents.. The primary causes of on-field deaths have evolved over time. Improvements in infection control and emergency surgery since the early days of organised soccer have mostly eliminated the fatal complications that were once common after routine sporting injuries.
Kalsu's name (third row, middle) on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. James Robert Kalsu (April 13, 1945 – July 21, 1970) was an American professional football player who was an All-American tackle at the University of Oklahoma and an eighth-round selection in the 1968 NFL/AFL draft by the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League (AFL). [1]
Association football portal; Egypt portal; Current and former players of Al Ahly SC ... Al Ahly (men's volleyball) players ...
The names of the first players of Al Ahly were as follows: Hussein Hegazi, Abdel Fattah Taher, Fouad Darwish, Hussein Mansour, and Ibrahim Fahmy. [9] In 1915, Al-Ahly made tours to Egyptian cities to play matches and to spread football and its culture. Al Ahly played in Alexandria, Port Said, Assiut, and Ismailia.
Donald Walter Holleder (August 3, 1934 – October 17, 1967) was an American college football star while attending the United States Military Academy and later assistant football coach for the United States Military Academy, who was later killed in the Vietnam War.