Jim Kisselburgh

Jim Kisselburgh
Position: Halfback, Fullback
Personal information
Date of birth: September 4, 1919
Place of birth: Ashland, Wisconsin
Date of death: July 10, 1996
Place of death: El Paso, Texas
Career information
College: Oregon State
Career highlights and awards
  • Third-team All-American (1940)

Alexander James "Jim" Kisselburgh, Jr. (September 4, 1919 – July 10, 1996) was an American football player. He played college football for the Oregon State Beavers football team from 1938 to 1940 and was selected by the Associated Press as a third-team player on the 1940 College Football All-America Team.[1] In January 1941, he joined the United States Army Air Corps.[2] He joined the Army All-Star West football team in 1942.[3] He flew 35 missions over the European Theater during World War II and was shot down northeast of Munich in February 1944; he spent the rest of the war in a German prisoner of war camp in Moosburg, Germany. He returned to the United States in June 1945.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Herb Barker (1940-12-08). "Two Dixie Stars Fill Flank Posts on All-America". The Sunday Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
  2. ↑ "Kisselburgh in Air Corps to Beat Draft". The Bulletin. January 30, 1941.
  3. ↑ "Army West Stars Get Kisselburgh". The Milwaukee Journal. August 15, 1942.
  4. ↑ "Kisselburgh Back after Long Time in Nazi Prison Camp". La Grande Observer. June 14, 1945. p. 1. Retrieved September 30, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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