Helge Pukema

Helge Pukema
Position: Guard
Personal information
Date of birth: (1917-04-08)April 8, 1917
Place of birth: Bessemer, Michigan
Date of death: December 20, 2004(2004-12-20) (aged 87)
Place of death: Billings Park, Wisconsin
Career information
College: Minnesota
Career highlights and awards
  • First-team All-American (1940)

Helge Emil Pukema (April 8, 1917 – December 20, 2004) was an American football player. He played college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and was selected by the Newspaper Enterprise Association as a first-team guard on the 1940 College Football All-America Team.[1][2] He died in Billings Park, Wisconsin, in 2004 at age 87.[3]

References

  1. ↑ ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. 2005. p. 1181. ISBN 1401337031.
  2. ↑ Harry Grayson (1940-11-26). "NEA Has Harmon and Kimbrough On All-American". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
  3. ↑ "Helge Emil Pukema". Duluth News Tribune. December 2004.


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