Milo Sukup
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| Date of birth | July 9, 1917 |
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| Place of birth | Muskegon Heights, Michigan |
| Date of death | January 3, 1983 (aged 65) |
| Place of death | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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| Position(s) | Guard |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
| College | Michigan |
| High school | Muskegon Heights High School |
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| 1938–1940 | Michigan |
Milo Frederick Sukup (July 9, 1917 – January 3, 1983) was an American football player and coach. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1940, where he was the running guard and a key blocker for Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon. He sustained a head injury late in his senior year that ended his football career. He was the head football coach and athletic director at Union High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1942 to 1971.
Sukup was born in Muskegon Heights, Michigan in 1917. His parents, John and Anna Sukup, spoke Slovak and identified their homeland in the 1910 Census as "Hun Slovakia." His mother emigrated to the United States in 1897 and his father in 1899. His father worked as a core maker in an iron foundry. Sukup had a brother, John, who was seven years older and two sisters, Anna and Lilian.
Sukup attended Muskegon Heights High School where he won 12 varsity letters in football, basketball, baseball and track and was selected as an all-state player in both basketball and football. As the fullback for his high school football team, Sukup led Muskegon Heights to 27 consecutive wins and three state titles from 1933 to 1936.
In 1937, he enrolled at the University of Michigan where he played college football as a guard for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1938 to 1940. As a sophomore in 1938, he was alternated with All-American Ralph Heikkinen and garnered attention after the Penn game in which he recovered a blocked punt for a touchdown and made what was described as "a thundering block" that freed Paul Kromer to return another punt for a touchdown. Sukup became a starter in the 1939 and 1940 seasons. In games in which Sukup was a starter, the Wolverines outscored opponents 349 to 107 and compiled a record of 11 wins and 2 losses.
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