Theodore Stanislaus Andrulewicz (January 1, 1905January 3, 1996) was an

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/ halfback who played for the Newark Tornadoes in the

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. He played

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at Villanova University, participating in eleven regular season games during one season in

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. He had one receiving touchdown.

Early and family history

Teddy Andrulewicz was born in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania on January 1, 1905, to Thomas and Scholastica Pozniak Andrulewicz. Some sources indicate that he may have been related to Antoni Pozniak, a soldier in Soviet Russia, through both of his parents. His father's relative was Bronislawa "Bernice" Bronislawa Pozniak

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Andrulewiczówna, who was murdered during the Holocaust. She was married to Bronislaw Pozniak.Ancestry.com Entry for Bronislawa (Bernice) Andrulewicz
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