Ed Sustersic

No. 70

Position:

Fullback, Linebacker

Personal information

Date of birth:

January 7, 1922

Place of birth:

Cleveland, Ohio

Date of death:

January 18, 1967 (aged 45)

Place of death:

Brecksville, Ohio

Height:

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Weight:

205 lb (93 kg)

Career information

High school:

John Marshall High School

College:

University of Findlay

Career history

Cleveland Browns (1949)

Career highlights and awards

AAFC Champion (1949)
Findlay Athletic Hall of Fame (1971)

Career NFL statistics as of 1949

Games:	11
Rushing yards:	114
Player stats at NFL.com

Player stats at PFR

Games:	11
Rushing yards:	114
Player stats at NFL.com

Edward J. "Foozy" Sustersic (January 7, 1922 – January 18, 1967) was an American football fullback and linebacker who played one season in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) for the Cleveland Browns.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Sustersic was a star football player and wrestler at his local high school. He attended Findlay College, where he continued his athletic career and won a state amateur wrestling championship. His college career was interrupted by service in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, but he returned to Findlay and was named an All-Ohio fullback in 1947. He then played one season for the Browns in 1949. The team won the AAFC championship that year.

Sustersic held a number of coaching jobs in Ohio after leaving the Browns. He became a coach at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School in 1958, and was named its athletic director in 1961. He died in 1967 of a heart attack. Four years later, he was inducted into Findlay's athletics hall of fame.

Sustersic grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and attended John Marshall High School, where he played football and won a city championship in wrestling before graduating in 1941. He continued to wrestle and play football at the Findlay College in Findlay, Ohio, and won the Ohio Amateur Athletic Union heavyweight wrestling championship. He left Findlay early in his college career, however, to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. He rose to the rank of sergeant and won a heavyweight boxing championship while stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. Sustersic returned to Findlay after the war, and resumed his football career there, playing as a fullback. He was named a first-team All-Ohio fullback by the Associated Press after the 1947 season. He graduated in 1948.

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