1. Roger Zatkoff was an American professional football player and businessman.
18 Facts About Roger Zatkoff
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Roger Zatkoff later played professional football in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers from 1953 to 1956 and for the Detroit Lions in 1957 and 1958.
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Roger Zatkoff was selected as an All-Pro player in 1954,1955,1956.
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Roger Zatkoff was a member of the 1957 Detroit Lions team that won the NFL championship.
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Roger Zatkoff became the largest independent distributor of seals in North America.
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Roger Zatkoff played at the fullback position at Hamtramck High School.
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Roger Zatkoff enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1949 and played college football for Bennie Oosterbaan's Wolverines teams from 1950 to 1952.
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Roger Zatkoff started nine games at linebacker for the 1950 Wolverines squad that defeated Ohio State in the famous Snow Bowl game, won the Big ten championship, and defeated the University of California in the 1951 Rose Bowl.
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Roger Zatkoff started all nine games at linebacker for the 1951 Wolverines, and he was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team linebacker on the 1951 All-Big Ten Conference football team.
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Roger Zatkoff was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1985.
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Roger Zatkoff was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the fifth round of the 1953 NFL draft.
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Roger Zatkoff played linebacker for the Packers and appeared in 48 games from 1953 to 1956.
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Roger Zatkoff announced that, for family and business reasons, he would retire rather than play for the Browns.
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Roger Zatkoff was a starting player on the 1957 Detroit Lions team that won the NFL championship.
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Roger Zatkoff appeared in all 12 games for the Lions in 1958.
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In March 1959, Roger Zatkoff announced that he was retiring from football to focus on business.
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Roger Zatkoff is the great uncle of National Hockey League goaltender Jeff Roger Zatkoff of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Roger Zatkoff is one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is caused by repeated hits to the head.