George Ekaitis

George Leo Ekaitis was an American college football player and coach who was also a boxer, born on July 15, 1906 and dead on November 14, 1960. At Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College, he played football and won the NCAA lightweight boxing championship before graduating in 1931. He later served as head football coach at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, from 1933 to 1941 and again from 1946 to 1947, and he also coached track and lacrosse there. Afterward he coached football at Atlantic City High School in New Jersey. He died by suicide in 1960 and was inducted into the Washington College Hall of Fame in 1984.