Rutgers University Athletics

He was considered one of the East's top ends during the 1930's and was a member of the all-time All-Rutgers football team which was selected in 1940. He scored the only touchdown allowed by the celebrated 1933 Princeton team and was credited with winning, virtually single-handedly, the Boston University game in 1935. Compared often to Paul Robeson, Winika was killed in a plane crash at Trinidad in 1942, the first varsity athlete from Rutgers to perish in World War II.