Leon J. Gajecki (December 10, 1917 – November 2, 2000) was an American football player.

Leon Gajecki

Leon Gajecki, 1940
Personal information
Born:	December 10, 1917 Colver, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died:	November 2, 2000 (aged 82) Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S.
Career information
College:	Penn State
Position:	Center
Career highlights and awards
First-team All-American (1940)

Gajecki was born in 1917 in Colver, Pennsylvania, and attended Ebensburg High School.[1]

He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team from 1937 to 1940.[1][2] He was selected by both the Newspaper Enterprise Association and Liberty magazine as a first-team center on the 1940 All-America college football team.[3][4]

Gajecki was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 142nd pick i the 1940 NFL Draft. He played for the Jersey City Giants of the American Football League from 1946 to 1948.[1]

After retiring from football, he settled in Pitman, Pennsylvania. He coached the football team at Glassboro State College in the mid-1960s. He also worked as a fuel technologist for more than 30 years for Exxon.[5] He was inducted into the Cambria County Sports Hall of Fame in 1971.[6] He died in 2000 at age 82 at the Greenbriar West Nursing Home in Woodbury, New Jersey.[5][7]

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