1. Milan "Sheriff" Lazetich was an American football player in the 1940s.
23 Facts About Milan Lazetich
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Milan Lazetich played college football for the University of Montana and University of Michigan.
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Milan Lazetich was a first-team All-Big Ten tackle and second-team All-American in 1944 for the Michigan Wolverines.
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Milan Lazetich was the son of Peter Lazetich, a pioneer Serbian rancher.
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Milan Lazetich grew up on his father's cattle ranch a few miles from Anaconda.
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Milan Lazetich played basketball and was a member of the track team.
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Milan Lazetich played one year of college football at the University of Montana.
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Milan Lazetich joined the US Navy during World War II but received a medical discharge.
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Milan Lazetich enrolled at the University of Michigan where he played for Fritz Crisler's Wolverines football team in 1944.
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Milan Lazetich was picked as a second-team All-American by the Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America, International News Service, and Central Press Association.
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Milan Lazetich played in ten games at right guard for the Rams in 1945, and he helped the Rams to win the NFL championship in his first year as a professional player.
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Milan Lazetich played for the Rams in their first five seasons in Los Angeles.
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Milan Lazetich was a deputy sheriff of Deer Lodge County but he has made most of his arrests on the football field.
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Milan Lazetich played freshman football at the University of Montana after which he moved up to Big Ten football.
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Milan Lazetich was selected as a first-team NFL All-Pro by the Chicago-Herald American in 1948 and as a second-team NFL All-Pro by Pro Football Illustrated.
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Milan Lazetich made a key play in the 1950 NFL Championship Game.
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Milan Lazetich was a blithe spirit from Montana who'd played college football at Michigan before joining the Rams in '46 for a five-year stint.
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Milan Lazetich ambled out to the kitchen, plucked the football off the top of the fancy cake, brought it out in the front room and drove his toe into it with beautiful form and a perfect follow through.
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In November 1949, Milan Lazetich was hospitalized in Pennsylvania during the football season for treatment of a stomach ulcer.
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Milan Lazetich was given several blood transfusions, his condition was reported to be serious, and he was unable to play for the rest of the month.
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Milan Lazetich was a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte, Montana, the Bokelian Brotherhood Lodge in Butte, and the Serbian Fraternity of Anaconda.
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Milan Lazetich died in a hospital in Butte, Montana at age 47 in July 1969.
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Milan Lazetich was buried with military honors at the Mount Olivet Cemetery after a funeral in Butte's Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church.