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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.
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]
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.
Purdue: 14 members of football team were killed in a railroad collision (1903). Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970).
An Alabama A&M football player who suffered a head injury during a game in October has died. The university announced that linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr. passed away on Tuesday evening, a month ...
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.
Three people have been arrested in connection with a North Carolina ATV crash that killed two teenage boys. High school football players Layne Jones and Jayden Reynaldo both died in a four-wheeler ...
Mark Sears scored 24 points and No. 9 Alabama beat No. 6 Houston 85-80 in overtime on Tuesday night in the opener of the Players Era Festival. After squandering an eight-point lead with 8:53 left ...