Leo Raskowski

Who was Leo Raskowski?

Leo Thomas Raskowski was an American college and professional football player of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Thomas and Julia Raskowski. At Ohio State, he and received All-American honors in 1926 and 1927, was team captain in 1928 and was also a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. After he graduated, Raskowski went on to play professional football in the National Football League for the Staten Island Stapletons, Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Eagles. He later took the name of Leo Randall and moved to Vancouver in 1943 to become a recreation director. He died there after a long illness at the age of 46.

He was inducted posthumously into the Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame in 2011.