John Wysocki repeated as an All-American in 1938 despite suffering injuries that prevented him from playing a full schedule.
10 Facts About John Wysocki
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John Wysocki was just a big fellow with a desire to put on bone-crushing blocks, a fervor for knocking people down, and obsessed with the idea that end play should be confined to the opponent's backfield.
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John Wysocki gave Maurice Smith a chance to turn the foemen's desire to sock Wysocki into a Villanova advantage.
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John Wysocki was the ideal decoy on pass plays and a demon on defense.
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John Wysocki was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1939 NFL draft.
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However, John Wysocki instead took a job as a high school teacher and coach.
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John Wysocki later became the football and baseball coach and athletic director at Upper Merion High School in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, from 1944 to 1946.
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John Wysocki lived in his later years in Highland Park, Pennsylvania, and died in Philadelphia's Osteophathic Hospital at age 49 in 1965.
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John Wysocki was survived by his wife, Mary John Wysocki, a son and four daughters.
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John Wysocki was inducted into the Villanova Walk of Fame in 1994.