Lloyd Burdick

Lloyd Burdick
No. 14
Position:	Tackle
Personal information
Born:	August 8, 1909; Assumption, Illinois
Died:	August 9, 1945 (aged 36); Michigan, North Dakota
Height:	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight:	248 lb (112 kg)
Career information
High school:	Chicago (IL) Morgan Park
College:	Illinois
Career history
As a player:
	Chicago Bears (1931–1932); Cincinnati Reds (1933);
As a coach:
	Knox (IL) (1934);
Career highlights and awards
	NFL champion (1932);
	Player stats at PFR

Lloyd Sumner "Shorty" Burdick (August 8, 1909 – August 9, 1945) was an American football tackle who played three seasons in the National Football League with the Chicago Bears and Cincinnati Reds. He played college football at the University of Illinois and attended Morgan Park Academy in Chicago, Illinois.^[1]

College career

Burdick played for the Illinois Fighting Illini. He graduated from the school of commerce and agriculture at the University of Illinois.^[2]

Burdick played in 22 games, starting nineteen, for the Chicago Bears from 1931 to 1932.^[3]

Burdick played in ten games, starting nine, for the Cincinnati Reds in 1933.^[3]

Burdick was a district representative of the Caterpillar company. His Caterpillar company territory included North Dakota, Montana, and the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. He spent 28 months as supervisor of maintenance on the Alcan highway.^[2] Burdick was one of 34 people killed in a train wreck on August 9, 1945 in Michigan, North Dakota.^[4]


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Knox Old Siwash (Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conferenc / Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1934)
1934	Knox	0–8	0–5 / 0–4	18th / 8th
Knox:		0–8
Total:		0–8

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^ ^a ^b "1945 Obituary for Lloyd S. Burdick, 36". michigannd.com. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ^a ^b "Lloyd Burdick". pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
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