20 Facts About Ed Frutig

Edward C Frutig was an American football end who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1938 to 1940.

Ed Frutig was selected as a first-team All-American in 1940 by William Randolph Hearst's International News Service.

Ed Frutig attended the University of Michigan from 1937 to 1941.

Ed Frutig put himself through college by covering Ann Arbor for a Detroit newspaper.

Ed Frutig came back in the Minnesota game but was injured again, with a dislocated ankle tendon, and did not play the rest of the season.

Ed Frutig finally put together a complete season as a senior in 1940.

The 1940 season was the year Tom Harmon won the Heisman Trophy and Ed Frutig's accomplishments were largely overshadowed.

In Michigan's eight games, Ed Frutig had 12 receptions for 181 yards and three touchdowns.

Ed Frutig blocked five punts and won a reputation as a superior defensive player.

Ed Frutig played all 60 minutes against Penn and said afterward he could have played 60 minutes more.

Ed Frutig nearly won the game for Michigan as he blocked a George Franck punt, which Reuben Kelto recovered on the Minnesota three-yard line.

Ed Frutig ruined about six coming in there trying to block those Gopher punts.

Against Northwestern, Ed Frutig blocked a punt from the end zone to set up Harmon's 30th touchdown of the season.

Ed Frutig was a first-team All-American pick by Hearst Publications' International News Service and football writer Maxwell Stiles.

Ed Frutig was selected as a third-team All-American by UP, AP and Central Press Association.

Ed Frutig was chosen by conference coaches as a first-team player on the Associated Press All-Big Ten Conference team.

Evashevski and Ed Frutig scored the East's only touchdowns, with Ed Frutig scoring on a 21-yard pass from Harmon into the end zone.

Ed Frutig was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the third round of the 1941 NFL draft, and played for the team in 1941.

However, when the United States entered World War II, Ed Frutig enlisted in the US Navy where he earned his wings as a naval aviator.

Ed Frutig served as a flight instructor at a naval air base at Grosse Ile, Michigan.