Robert L. Capuano
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Sport:
Football |
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Year
Graduated: 1953 |
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Year
Inducted: 1973 |
In 1964, Bob Capuano was voted - along with George Sulima,
who was inducted into the Hall of Fame last year - as one
of the two top ends in Boston University's post-war football
history.
An All-State end at Rhode Island's Cranston High School,
he became a favorite target for the passes of the immortal
Harry Agganis. In 1951 he caught three touchdown passes against
the College of William and Mary.
Elected team captain for the 1952 season, he was forced to
leave school before the start of the season because of illness,
and was not able to return.
While at BU, he also starred in basketball, and in 1951 was
selected as Rhode Island's Outstanding Italo-American Athlete
of the Year. He suffered an untimely death from a heart attack
in 1964.
