Milo Milan Lubratovich (May 30, 1907 – September 5, 1975), name changed in 1943 to Milo Milan Lubratt, was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

tackle. He played

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for the

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(1927-1930) and professional football in the

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(NFL) for the

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(1931-1935). Lubratovich was born in 1907 in

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. He attended Central High School in

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. He then enrolled at the

where he played for the

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program from 1927 to 1930. He helped lead the 1930 Wisconsin Badgers football team to a 6–2–1 record and was a consensus first-team tackle on the 1930 All-America college football team. Lubratovich signed with the

in August 1931 and immediately won a spot as a starter at the tackle position. ''The Brooklyn Daily Times'' wrote: "Perhaps the outstanding addition is that of Milo Lubratovich, The University of Wisconsin's great tackle. Weighing 230 pounds, he was fast and powerful, and his ability to get under a kick was uncanny." He played at the tackle position, both on offense and defense, for the Dodgers from 1931 to 1935. He appeared in 53 NFL games, 50 of them as a starter. Lubratovich served in the army in

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. He later worked as an engineer for a concrete restoration company. He was inducted in 2008 into the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lubratovich, Milo 1907 births 1975 deaths All-American college football players American football tackles Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) players Wisconsin Badgers football players