- Tony Butkovich
Tony Butkovich was a fullback from the University of Illinois and spent his last year at Purdue. He was drafted by the
Cleveland Rams in the first round of 1944, but never played professional football. Instead he enlisted in the US Marines and fought inWorld War II . He was killed in action at Okinawa.Reference
* [http://purdue.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=318607 Boilers By Numbers: No. 25]
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