SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – Tony Sardisco, the former Tulane lineman who captained the AFL’s Boston Patriots in the early 1960s, died Sunday. He was 73.
Sardisco died of a massive heart attack at his home in Shreveport, daughter Madeleine Bergeron said.
Bergeron said her mother, Juliana Tutko Sardisco, suffered a mild heart attack, apparently from the stress resulting from her husband’s death. Juliana Sardisco, 69, is recovering, Bergeron said.
Sardisco’s professional football career lasted four years, and it was interrupted by military service.
It included short stints with the San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins in 1956, his rookie season. He then served in the Air Force for two years before returning to pro football with Calgary in the Canadian Football League in 1959. He played guard for the Patriots from 1960-62.
“He loved football to the day he died,” Bergeron said.
Sardisco was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.
Funeral arrangements were not complete Monday night.
AP-ES-05-29-06 2100EDT
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