Harry Jacunski, a member of the Fordham football team's line known as the Seven Blocks of Granite, died Thursday at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford of congestive heart failure. He was 87.
Jacunski was an All-state center on the New Britain High School 1934 basketball team
The nickname was originally applied to Fordham linemen during the 1929-30 seasons and revived five years later, when Fordham and Pittsburgh, two of the nation's strongest teams, played scoreless ties in three successive games at the Polo Grounds from 1935 to 1937.
Jacunski was a left end in the 1936 and 1937 seasons, playing on a line with center Alex Wojciechowicz and right guard Vince Lombardi. Jacunski was a co-captain of the Rams in 1938, and in his three varsity seasons, Fordham was 18-2-5.
By then Jacunski had enough of football and he told the New York Giants not to waste a pick by drafting him. But jobs were still scarce in 1939 and two months after graduation, Jacunski had not found one.
''I went out to Chicago to play in the College All-Star game,'' Jacunski said in an article in Pro Football Weekly two years ago. ''A coach for the Green Bay Packers came around and asked if I'd be interested. By then I was.''
Jacunski was an All-state center on the New Britain High School 1934 basketball team
The nickname was originally applied to Fordham linemen during the 1929-30 seasons and revived five years later, when Fordham and Pittsburgh, two of the nation's strongest teams, played scoreless ties in three successive games at the Polo Grounds from 1935 to 1937.
Jacunski was a left end in the 1936 and 1937 seasons, playing on a line with center Alex Wojciechowicz and right guard Vince Lombardi. Jacunski was a co-captain of the Rams in 1938, and in his three varsity seasons, Fordham was 18-2-5.
By then Jacunski had enough of football and he told the New York Giants not to waste a pick by drafting him. But jobs were still scarce in 1939 and two months after graduation, Jacunski had not found one.
''I went out to Chicago to play in the College All-Star game,'' Jacunski said in an article in Pro Football Weekly two years ago. ''A coach for the Green Bay Packers came around and asked if I'd be interested. By then I was.''
Harry Jacunski, a member of the Fordham football team's line known as the Seven Blocks of Granite, died Thursday at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford of congestive heart failure. He was 87.
Jacunski was an All-state center on the New Britain High School 1934 basketball team
The nickname was originally applied to Fordham linemen during the 1929-30 seasons and revived five years later, when Fordham and Pittsburgh, two of the nation's strongest teams, played scoreless ties in three successive games at the Polo Grounds from 1935 to 1937.
Jacunski was a left end in the 1936 and 1937 seasons, playing on a line with center Alex Wojciechowicz and right guard Vince Lombardi. Jacunski was a co-captain of the Rams in 1938, and in his three varsity seasons, Fordham was 18-2-5.
By then Jacunski had enough of football and he told the New York Giants not to waste a pick by drafting him. But jobs were still scarce in 1939 and two months after graduation, Jacunski had not found one.
''I went out to Chicago to play in the College All-Star game,'' Jacunski said in an article in Pro Football Weekly two years ago. ''A coach for the Green Bay Packers came around and asked if I'd be interested. By then I was.''
Jacunski was an All-state center on the New Britain High School 1934 basketball team
The nickname was originally applied to Fordham linemen during the 1929-30 seasons and revived five years later, when Fordham and Pittsburgh, two of the nation's strongest teams, played scoreless ties in three successive games at the Polo Grounds from 1935 to 1937.
Jacunski was a left end in the 1936 and 1937 seasons, playing on a line with center Alex Wojciechowicz and right guard Vince Lombardi. Jacunski was a co-captain of the Rams in 1938, and in his three varsity seasons, Fordham was 18-2-5.
By then Jacunski had enough of football and he told the New York Giants not to waste a pick by drafting him. But jobs were still scarce in 1939 and two months after graduation, Jacunski had not found one.
''I went out to Chicago to play in the College All-Star game,'' Jacunski said in an article in Pro Football Weekly two years ago. ''A coach for the Green Bay Packers came around and asked if I'd be interested. By then I was.''
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