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William John Vohaska (May 17, 1929 – December 24, 2004) was an American football player.

Vohaska was born in 1929 in Riverside, Illinois. He attended Morton High School in Cicero.[1]

He played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team at the center position from 1948 to 1950.[1] He was seleced as captain of the 1950 Illinois Fighting Illini football team that was ranked No. 11 in the final UPI poll.[2] He was selected by the Associated Press as the first-team center on its 1950 College Football All-America Team.[3][4] Illinois head coach Ray Eliot called Vohaska a "hustler and a perfectionist" and "the finest player I have ever worked with".[5] Vohaska also competed for the Illinois wrestling team, but he forfeited his senior year of wrestling eligibility to participate in an all-star bowl game in Hawaii.[6]

Vohaska later worked as a coach and teacher. He taught at Morton High School beginning in 1954 and later at Morton College.[7] He also founded and operated the Riverside Day Camp in Riverside, Illinois.[8]

Vohaska died in 2000 at a hospice home in Venice, Florida.[7]

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