Buzz Nutter
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| Positions | Center Linebacker | ||||||||
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| Born | February 16, 1931 Summersville, West Virginia, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died | April 12, 2008 (aged 77) La Plata, Maryland, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
| Weight | 230 lb (104 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school | Vinson High School[1] | ||||||||
| College | Virginia Tech | ||||||||
| NFL draft | 1953: 12th round, 136th overall pick | ||||||||
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Madison Monroe "Buzz" Nutter (February 16, 1931 – April 12, 2008) was an American professional football center in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football at Virginia Tech.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Nutter was born in Summersville, West Virginia, and grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, where he acquired the nickname "Buzz" as a young man.[2] He attended and played high school football at Vinson High School.[3]
College career
[edit | edit source]Nutter attended and played college football at Virginia Tech.[2] After his senior season, he became the first player from Virginia Tech drafted into the NFL,[4] despite the team going 0-10, 2-8 and 5-6 the final three seasons of his career.[5] Nutter was inducted into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.[6]
Professional career
[edit | edit source]Nutter was selected in the 12th round of the 1953 NFL draft by the Washington Redskins. He failed to make the team in the offseason and moved back to West Virginia to work in a steel mill.[2][7] He returned to the NFL in 1954 with the Baltimore Colts, where he played for seven seasons and won consecutive NFL Championship titles (1958–1959).[2] Nutter was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers, along with Eugene Lipscomb, in 1961 for wide receiver Jimmy Orr.[8] Nutter played in Pittsburgh for four seasons and was selected for the Pro Bowl in 1962.
In 1965, he returned to the Colts for his final professional season.[2]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]After retiring from football, Nutter moved to La Plata, Maryland, and started a beverage distribution company in Waldorf, Maryland, that he ran for more than 40 years.[2] The company was named Center Distributors after his football position.[2]
Nutter's wife of 44 years, Carole, a devout Catholic, died in 1997.[8] Two days before her death, in a service that took place in his wife's hospital room, Nutter converted to Catholicism after being a lifelong Methodist.[8] They had four children and ten grandchildren.[2]
Nutter died on April 12, 2008, of heart failure[9] at Civista Medical Center in La Plata.[2]
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External links
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- 1931 births
- 2008 deaths
- American football offensive linemen
- Baltimore Colts players
- Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players
- People from Summersville, West Virginia
- Players of American football from Huntington, West Virginia
- Pittsburgh Steelers players
- People from La Plata, Maryland
- Converts to Roman Catholicism from Methodism
- Methodists from West Virginia
- 20th-century Methodists
- 20th-century Roman Catholics
- 21st-century Roman Catholics
- Catholics from West Virginia
- Catholics from Maryland
- Virginia Tech Hokies football players
- Methodists from Maryland