University of Wisconsin La Crosse Athletics

Fritz Pongratz (1958-61)

Fritz Pingratz played football, baseball and basketball on campus from 1958-1961, lettering in all three three sports.  Pongratz was named all-conference in football from 1958-1960, as well as the Staff Loveland Most Valuable Player in 1958 and a Wilkinson Little All-American in 1960. 

Pongratz says his biggest athletic accomplishment was signing as a free agent with the Ottowa Roughriders in the Canadian Football League.