{{Short description|American football player (1918–1943)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox gridiron football biography | name = Milt Simington | number = 33, 55 | position = Guard, placekicker | birth_date = {{birth date|1918|08|26}} | birth_place = Dierks, Arkansas, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1943|01|17|1918|08|26}} | death_place = Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 2 | weight_lb = 217 | high_school = {{unbulleted list|Idabel (Idabel, Oklahoma)|Dierks|}} | college = Arkansas (1937-1940) | draftyear = 1941 | draftround = 9 | draftpick = 74 | pastteams = * Cleveland Rams ({{NFL Year|1941}}) * Pittsburgh Steelers ({{NFL Year|1942}}) | highlights = * Pro Bowl (1942) * Second-team All-SWC (1939) | statlabel1 = Games | statvalue1 = 18 | statlabel2 = Games started | statvalue2 = 11 | statlabel3 = Field goals attempted | statvalue3 = 1 | statlabel4 = Field goals made | statvalue4 = 1 | statlabel5 = Extra points attempted | statvalue5 = 3 | statlabel6 = Extra points made | statvalue6 = 2 | pfr = SimiMi20 }}
'''Milton Richard Simington''' (August 26, 1918 {{spaced ndash}}January 17, 1943) was an American professional football guard who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cleveland Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Milt Simington NFL Profile |url=http://www.nfl.com/players/greglasker/profile?id=SIM065915 |work=NFL |accessdate=2008-07-21}}</ref> He was selected to the NFL All-Star team in 1942.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SimiMi20.htm |title=Milt Simington Statistics |accessdate=2008-07-21 |work=Sports Reference LLC |publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com}}</ref>
==Playing career== Simington played college football at the University of Arkansas before being selected by the Cleveland Rams in the 1941 NFL draft.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1941 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1941/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> In August 1942, he was traded along with Johnny Binotto by the Rams to the Pittsburgh Steelers in exchange for George Platukis.<ref name=PPG_death>{{cite news|title=Heart Attack Fatal to Simington|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hDcxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B2oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4571,1815670&hl=en|accessdate=February 16, 2012|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=January 18, 1943|pages=15–16}}</ref>
Simington was selected for the NFL All-Star team based on his performance during the 1942 NFL season, but he suffered a mild heart attack during practices for the game which ended his playing career.<ref name=PPG_death/><ref name=MJ_GamePreview>{{cite news|title=Pro All-Stars Confident They Can Beat Redskins|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uBwaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8CQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2587,3894276&hl=en|accessdate=February 15, 2012|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal|date=December 26, 1942|agency=AP|page=10}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He suffered a second heart attack a few weeks later which proved fatal; he died in Shreveport, Louisiana, on January 17, 1943, at the age of 24.<ref name=PPG_death/> At the time of his death he had been planning to enter officer training school.<ref name=PPG_death/>
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