*Outstanding baseball, basketball and football player at Arthur Hill High School

*Member of the Lumberjacks' 1943-44 State Championship basketball team

*Led the Saginaw Valley League in scoring his senior year in football (1946)

*Earned scholarship to Michigan State College where he was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter in football

*Became nationally known passing quarterback, blocker, and linebacker for the Spartans

*Held most of Michigan State's passing records for more than two decades

*Tossed four touchdown passes in a victory over Iowa State and totaled 11 touchdown passes his junior season

*Named Spartan MVP after completing 38 of 71 passes for 776 yards

*Signed by Detroit Lions in 1950 but was sidelined by a knee injury

*Successful football, basketball and baseball coach at St. Andrew's High School

*Teams won five Parochial League football titles and two VPL basketball championships

*Named to Arthur Hill High School's Letterwinner's Hall of Fame in 1963