Ed Frutig

Ed Frutig
No. 51, 80
Position:End
Personal information
Born:(1918-08-19)August 19, 1918
River Rouge, Michigan, U.S.
Died:February 26, 2011(2011-02-26) (aged 92)
Vero Beach, Florida, U.S.
Height:6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school:River Rouge (MI)
College:Michigan
NFL draft:1941 / round: 5 / pick: 37
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Receptions:12
Receiving yards:117
Touchdowns:3
Stats at Pro Football Reference Edit this at Wikidata

Edward C. Frutig (August 19, 1918[1] – February 26, 2011[2]) was an American football end who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1938 to 1940. He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1940 by William Randolph Hearst's International News Service. A teammate of Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon for three years at Michigan, Frutig was Harmon's main receiver, and played in the National Football League (NFL) with the Green Bay Packers (1941, 1945) and Detroit Lions (1945–1946).

Early years

Born and raised in River Rouge, Michigan, Frutig was the son of a River Rouge councilman.[3]

1938 season

Frutig attended the University of Michigan from 1937 to 1941. He came to Michigan with very little football reputation and is reported to have “barely made the freshman squad” in 1937.[4] Frutig put himself through college by covering Ann Arbor for a Detroit newspaper.[5]

As a sophomore in 1938, he was part of coach Fritz Crisler's first Michigan football team. This was the year that Crisler introduced the Winged Helmet at Michigan. He was “just another varsity candidate as a sophomore” in 1938 but before the season was over, he was “the best end” on the team. “That's real development,” said Fielding H. Yost.[4] Going into the 1938 season, Michigan had not scored a touchdown against Ohio State in four years. On November 19, the drought ended as Michigan beat the Buckeyes, 18–0. In the fourth quarter, Frutig caught two passes from Tom Harmon, one a 22-yard pass to the 18-yard line and then a five-yard pass for a touchdown.[6]

1939 season

As the 1939 season got underway, former Michigan head coach Fielding H. Yost called Frutig the greatest Michigan pass receiver since Bennie Oosterbaan. Yost said, "He's got the grace and the speed. And the tips of his fingers appear coated with glue."[7] Frutig was also described as “a sweet defensive player.”[8]

In the Big Ten opener against Iowa, Frutig caught a 27-yard pass from Tom Harmon and was pushed out of bounds at the two-yard line to set up Michigan's first touchdown in a 27–7 win.[9] However, he suffered a twisted knee in the Iowa game and did not play against Chicago.[10][11] He came back in the Minnesota game but was injured again, with a dislocated ankle tendon, and did not play the rest of the season.[12]

1940 season

Frutig finally put together a complete season as a senior in 1940. He started all eight games at end as the Wolverines went 7–1 and were ranked third in the final AP poll. The only loss was a 7–6 defeat to Minnesota. The 1940 season was the year Tom Harmon won the Heisman Trophy and Frutig's accomplishments were largely overshadowed. In Michigan's eight games, Frutig had 12 receptions for 181 yards (over 15 yards per catch) and three touchdowns. He also blocked five punts and won a reputation as a superior defensive player.

As the 1940 season was about to start, Yost said that Frutig was the best pass catcher he had seen in ten years, though he admitted Frutig was "not the best wingman" in other areas of play.[4]

In the season opener against the California Bears, Michigan won 41–0 and Frutig blocked one of Reinhard's punts, setting up Harmon's fifth touchdown.[13] In the second period against Illinois, Frutig caught a Harmon pass at the 25-yard line and ran untouched across the goal line. On the next possession, Illinois drove the ball to the Michigan 12-yard line, but Frutig intercepted a Pfeffer pass to end the threat.[14]

Against Pennsylvania, Frutig made a “leaping catch on the goal line” for a touchdown on a pass from Harmon, as the Wolverines won, 14–0.[15] Frutig played all 60 minutes against Penn and said afterward he could have played 60 minutes more. “Of course,” Frutig added, “I'd need that boy Al Wistert right by me if I had to play much more than the regulation time.”[16]

The season's only loss came to Minnesota in a close 7–6 game. Frutig nearly won the game for Michigan as he blocked a George Franck punt, which Reuben Kelto recovered on the Minnesota three-yard line. But Minnesota intercepted Harmon's pass in the end zone, and Michigan lost by one point. Harmon had also missed a point after touchdown kick earlier in the game.[17] Despite the loss, one columnist said of Frutig's performance against Minnesota: “The best end I saw all year I saw in this game. That was Frutig of Michigan and that goes for offense and defense. He ruined about six coming in there trying to block those Gopher punts. He did block one.”[18]

Against Northwestern, Frutig blocked a punt from the end zone to set up Harmon's 30th touchdown of the season.[19] In his final game in the Michigan uniform, a 40–0 win over Ohio State, Frutig caught his third touchdown pass of the season.[20]

Aside from his pass receiving and defense, Frutig won praise as a punt blocker. In Michigan's eight games in 1940, Frutig “personally blocked five punts, all of them at a crucial moments.”[21][22] Oddly, despite numerous accounts referencing his punt blocking exploits, Frutig is not listed among NCAA Division I players to have blocked as many as three punts in a season.[23]

Frutig was a first-team All-American pick by Hearst Publications' International News Service[24] and football writer Maxwell Stiles.[25] Frutig was selected as a third-team All-American by UP, AP and Central Press Association. He was chosen by conference coaches as a first-team player on the Associated Press All-Big Ten Conference team.[26]

Frutig, Harmon and Forest Evashevski teamed up one last time in the 16th annual East-West Shrine Charity Football Game in San Francisco on New Year's Day 1941. Evashevski and Frutig scored the East's only touchdowns, with Frutig scoring on a 21-yard pass from Harmon into the end zone.[27] Frutig leaped high to grab Harmon's pass “while boxed in between two West defense men.”[28]

Professional football and military service

Frutig was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the third round of the 1941 NFL draft, and played for the team in 1941.[29] However, when the United States entered World War II, Frutig enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he earned his wings as a naval aviator. While serving in the Navy, Frutig was named to the All-Navy All-American football team in 1942. He also played for the 1942 Corpus Christi Naval Air Station Comets football team that compiled a 4–3–1 record playing against southwest college teams.[30][31] He also served as a flight instructor at a naval air base at Grosse Ile, Michigan.[31][32]

Later years

In the early 1950s, Frutig served as the end coach at Washington State College in Pullman. College teammate Forest Evashevski was the Cougars' head coach, and recruited him to the WSC coaching staff in 1950. Frutig was credited with developing end Ed Barker, who broke two Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) pass-catching records in 1951.[33] After two seasons, he resigned in December 1951 to take a job with an advertising firm in East Lansing, Michigan,[34][35] and went on to become successful in the advertising business.[3] In 1967, Frutig and Bob Westfall were the leaders of the Alumni for Evy Committee, organized to bring Evashevski to Michigan as both head football coach and athletic director.[36] Instead, Bo Schembechler and Don Canham were hired to the jobs.

Frutig's daughter, Suzy Bales, has published thirteen books about gardening, including "The Garden in Winter" published in 2007.[37]

Honors and accolades

  • Selected a first-team All-American by the Hearst newspaper syndicate in 1940.
  • Inducted into the University of Michigan Hall of Honor in 1988.[38]
  • In 2005, Frutig was selected as one of the 100 greatest Michigan football players of all time by the "Motown Sports Revival," ranking 87th on the all-time team.[39]

See also

Notes

See discussion on this article's talk page regarding controversies as to Frutig's birth year, listed in some sources as 1920, and concerning conflicting sources as to whether Frutig blocked five punts in 1940.

References

  1. ^ Carroll, Bob (1999). Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League, p. 808. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-039232-0.
  2. ^ "Last living Packer from '41 Green Bay-Chicago playoff game died". March 2, 2011. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "University of Michigan, Football All-American: Edward Frutig, End, 1940". The Regents of the University of Michigan.
  4. ^ a b c "Bears Lose Star Back for Michigan Game on Saturday". Oakland Tribune. September 25, 1940.
  5. ^ "Prices Better, Yield Smaller in Maple Syrup". The Evening News (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.). May 15, 1940.
  6. ^ "Touchdown Drought Brought to and End". Ironwood Daily Globe. November 19, 1938.
  7. ^ "Yost Calls Frutig Michigan's Best Pass Receiver". The Burlington (N.C.) Daily Times-News. October 12, 1939.
  8. ^ "It Looks Like Wolverines' Year to Howl". The Wisconsin State Journal. September 24, 1939.
  9. ^ "Michigan Hands Hawkeyes First Defeat, 27 to 7". Waterloo (Iowa) Sunday Courier. October 15, 1939.
  10. ^ "Michigan Has an Easy Workout". The Wisconsin State Journal. October 17, 1939.
  11. ^ "Ohio State and Minnesota Game Feature of Card". The Freeport Journal-Standard. October 20, 1939.
  12. ^ "Wolves Lose Frutig". The Daily Herald – Circleville, Ohio. November 14, 1939.
  13. ^ "Michigan Swamps California Bears, 41 to 0". Oakland Tribune. September 29, 1940.
  14. ^ "Michigan Trims Illini 28-0". Ironwood Daily Globe. October 19, 1940.
  15. ^ "Harmon-ized Michigan Topples Penn, 14 to 0". The Port Arthur News. October 27, 1940.
  16. ^ "Could Have Played More". The News Palladium (Benton Harbor, Mich.). November 19, 1940.
  17. ^ "Wolverines Fail to Take Advantage of Scoring Chances". Lima News. November 10, 1940.
  18. ^ "Roundy Says . . ". The Wisconsin State Journaldate=1940-11-10.
  19. ^ "Michigan Holds Off Late Surge by Northwestern to Win 20 to 13". San Antonio Express. November 17, 1940.
  20. ^ "Michigan Hands Ohio Worst Beating, 40-0". The Wisconsin State Journal. November 24, 1940.
  21. ^ "Sports Briefs". The Wakefield News. November 29, 1940.
  22. ^ "Frutig Was Demon on Defense, Too". The Wisconsin State Journal. December 3, 1940.
  23. ^ "Official 2007 NCAA Division I Football Record Book (pg. 52)" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 1, 2007. Retrieved January 12, 2008.
  24. ^ "Kimbrough Named Fullback on Hearst All-American Team". The San Antonio Light. December 1, 1940.
  25. ^ Stiles, Maxwell (December 7, 1940). "Albert Only Coast Man on Stiles' All-American". Oakland Tribune.
  26. ^ Earl Hilligan (November 24, 1940). "Harmon and Evashevski Repeat on AP's All-Big Ten: Michigan Stars Named for Third Year in a Row". St. Petersburg Times (AP story). p. 12.
  27. ^ "Freak Score Helps West Defeat East: Johnson Runs to Touchdown Without Huddle or Signal". Syracuse Herald Journal. January 2, 1941.
  28. ^ "Paul Christman Leads West 20–14 Triumph". The Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio). January 2, 1941.
  29. ^ "1941 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  30. ^ "All-Navy All-American Football Team 1942". The Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pa.). December 26, 1942.
  31. ^ a b "Frutig Transferred". The Sheboygan Press. December 18, 1942.
  32. ^ "Big 10 Stars Are Making Good Mark". The Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pa.). May 16, 1942.
  33. ^ "Ed Frutig, Cougar End Coach, Quits". Walla Walla Union Bulletin. December 5, 1951.
  34. ^ "Frutig leaving WSC coaching staff". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). December 3, 1951. p. 19.
  35. ^ "WSC end coach quits football". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. December 4, 1951. p. 8.
  36. ^ "Michigan Alumni Bid for Evashevski in Dual Capacity as AD, Grid Coach". Tucson Daily Citizen. November 30, 1967.
  37. ^ "Winter garden gets pick-me-up in Detroit native's latest book". McClatchy-Tribune. November 14, 2007.
  38. ^ "University of Michigan Hall of Honor". Archived from the original on October 27, 2007.
  39. ^ "100 Greatest Michigan Football Players of All-Time". Motown Sports Revival. Retrieved December 9, 2007.

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