David C. Zuidmulder (February 4, 1906 – June 8, 1978) was an

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player.

Biography

David Zuidmulder was born on February 4, 1906, in

New Franken, Wisconsin New Franken is an unincorporated community in the towns of Scott, Green Bay, and Humboldt in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area In the United States, a metropolitan statistical ...

. After playing football and baseball, he was appointed head of the Green Bay fire department in 1955 after having served on the force since 1934. He died on June 8, 1978.

Athletics career

Zuidmulder was a star football player for East Green Bay High School. He played at the collegiate level at

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and

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. After this he became a tailback in the

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for the

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from 1929 to 1931. Zuidmulder was also a semi-professional baseball player for the Green Bay Green Sox, "Zuidmulder to Coach at Central Catholic." 1944. ''The Milwaukee Journal'' (23 July): 6. and he was an athletics coach at Central Catholic High School in Green Bay from 1944 to 1945.

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1906 births 1978 deaths Sportspeople from Brown County, Wisconsin Players of American football from Wisconsin American football halfbacks Georgetown Hoyas football players St. Ambrose Fighting Bees football players Green Bay Packers players Green Bay East High School alumni {{runningback-1900s-stub

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