A law student from Washington, DC, Bill Valk played as a walk on in three games over two seasons.

Valk is not listed in the Georgetown alumni database. What happened? The 1916 Ye Domesday Booke provides the answer--Valk took a job offer late in his final year of law school and never graduated.

"Billy's school life came to an untimely end while engaged with us on the last lap, but our book would be incomplete without his smiling countenance gracing its pages," it wrote. "No student of Georgetown law school can claim a wider circle of friends than Billy Valk, and it was with genuine regret that we heard he was to enter the patent department of the Curtis Aeroplane people."

Whether or not he secured a degree is unknown, but Valk worked as a patent attorney for many years at Curtiss headquarters in Buffalo, NY, and secured one of the first patents for an airplane propeller in 1923.