Lou Kusserow
Louis Joseph Kusserow was an American and Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He won the Grey Cup with them in 1953. Kusserow attended and played football at Columbia University. He was drafted in the 1949 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions in Round 3, #22 overall. In 1949, he played in the All-America Football Conference for the New York Yankees. The following year, he played in the National Football League for the New York Yanks. After his football career, he worked with NBC as an executive. He was inducted into the Columbia University Hall of Fame in 2006. In 2001, Kusserow died of prostate cancer.
