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Wittum ranks eighth all-time at NIU in points by a kicker with 113 on 21 field goals and 50 PATs, all NIU records at the time. His career field-goal totals of 21 made on 37 attempts, also school records at the time, are the eighth and seventh-most in school history. He made 50 of 55 extra-point
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He retired from the NFL after a serious car accident left him with several broken bones in 1978. After he retired, Wittum was headcoach of the
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219:Punt yards
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56:1950-01-11
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