He attended Findlay College, where he continued his athletic career and won a state amateur wrestling championship.
His college career was interrupted by service in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, but he returned to Findlay and was named an All-Ohio fullback in 1947.
Sustersic grew up in Cleveland and attended John Marshall High School, where he played football and won a city championship in wrestling before graduating in 1941.
[1][3] He left Findlay early in his college career, however, to serve in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
[1] He rose to the rank of sergeant and won a heavyweight boxing championship while stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi.
[6] Led by an offense that featured Motley, quarterback Otto Graham and ends Dante Lavelli and Mac Speedie, team won the AAFC championship that year.