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Leon Gajecki
Leon J. Gajecki (December 10, 1917 – November 2, 2000) was an American football player. Gajecki was born in 1917 in Colver, Pennsylvania, and attended Ebensburg High School.[1] He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team from 1937 to 1940.[1][2] He was selected by both the Newspaper Enterprise Association and Liberty magazine as a first-team center on the 1940 All-America college football team.[3][4] Gajecki was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 142nd pick in the 1940 NFL draft.[5] He played for the Jersey City Giants of the American Football League from 1946 to 1948.[1] After retiring from football, he settled in Pitman, New Jersey. He coached the football team at Glassboro State College in the mid-1960s. He also worked as a fuel technologist for more than 30 years for Exxon.[6] He was inducted into the Cambria County Sports Hall of Fame in 1971.[7] He died in 2000 at age 82 at the Greenbriar West Nursing Home in Woodbury, New Jersey.[6][8] References
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