Edward J "Foozy" Sustersic was an American football fullback and linebacker who played one season in the All-America Football Conference for the Cleveland Browns.
20 Facts About Ed Sustersic
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Ed Sustersic attended Findlay College, where he continued his athletic career and won a state amateur wrestling championship.
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Ed Sustersic then played one season for the Browns in 1949.
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Ed Sustersic held a number of coaching jobs in Ohio after leaving the Browns.
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Ed Sustersic became a coach at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School in 1958, and was named its athletic director in 1961.
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Ed Sustersic grew up in Cleveland and attended John Marshall High School, where he played football and won a city championship in wrestling before graduating in 1941.
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Ed Sustersic continued to wrestle and play football at the Findlay College in Findlay, Ohio, and won the Ohio Amateur Athletic Union heavyweight wrestling championship.
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Ed Sustersic left Findlay early in his college career to serve in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
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Ed Sustersic rose to the rank of sergeant and won a heavyweight boxing championship while stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi.
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Ed Sustersic returned to Findlay after the war, and resumed his football career there, playing as a fullback.
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Ed Sustersic was named a first-team All-Ohio fullback by the Associated Press after the 1947 season.
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Ed Sustersic signed to play for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference in 1949.
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Ed Sustersic was the team's third-string fullback, playing behind Marion Motley and Tony Adamle, as well as a linebacker on defense.
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Ed Sustersic scored two touchdowns in a pre-season game against the Chicago Hornets, but saw little action during the season.
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Ed Sustersic finished the season with 114 rushing yards on 23 carries and a touchdown.
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Ed Sustersic then took a job as the head baseball coach and assistant football coach at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School near Brecksville, Ohio.
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Ed Sustersic was named the athletic director at Brecksville in 1961 and stepped down as an assistant for the football team.
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Ed Sustersic returned to football in 1965 as Brecksville's line coach.
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Ed Sustersic died suddenly in 1967 of a heart attack while he was running in the Brecksville gym during school.
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Ed Sustersic was inducted into Findlay's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1971.