One of the career football highlights on Jeff Cummisford's resume presumably never showed up on Ken Anderson's resume. If it did, Anderson might never have made the move from Augustana College to the National Football League with the Cincinnati Bengals. Cummisford, in 1970 a sophomore at Carroll College, intercepted Anderson three times.

"I saw him five years later at Milwaukee County Stadium," Cummisford said. "I reintroduced myself and not only did he remember me but he also remembered the year before I also had an interception against him but he caught me from behind and tackled me at the 6-yard line after 60 yards. We didn't score and lost the game 6-0. "He was some athlete. He also punted and kicked extra points."

Cummisford was some athlete as well and was recently inducted into the Carroll Hall of Fame for his exploits in football that included:

• a school-record 8-1 season his sophomore year
• a College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin-record eight interceptions his sophomore season when he was named to the all-conference team and 18 in his career
• leading the CCIW in punt returns two seasons and in kickoff returns one season

But Cummisford was also a star before and after his career at Carroll. He earned nine letters in four sports at Milwaukee Pulaski High School and scored 19 points in 97-94 victory over Milwaukee Lincoln that ended the then two-time defending state champion's 60-game winning streak. He also played on two national-champion touch football teams. He was an all-conference selection in football, baseball and basketball at Pulaski. In his eight years of high school and college football, teams he played for compiled a 53-17 record- his 1968 Pulaski team winning the City Conference title with him as team captain and Most Valuable Player. He played only football at Carroll.

"I think I was better at football and enjoyed it more," he said. "Had I been a little bigger (he was 5-foot-9, 165 pounds) I might have gone with basketball but I decided on football." And he decided that he wanted to play rather than sit, so he chose Carroll. He might have sat for at least a while at Carroll if not for a hot tip from wide receiver Bill Wick.

"My freshman year with Vince DiFrancesca as coach, we had gone through our third week of hell week and we were just about ready to decide who would start when Vince came up and said we were going to decide right then. "Ten guys were in the running and we had to cover receivers. Of all people, I drew Wick but he whispered to me, 'post'. Bill dove for the ball and caught it but I was draped all over him. When we got up, Bill tapped me on the helmet and said, 'Good job.' I had stayed with him so I got the job."

Wick and Bob Helf were receivers and Dave Anschuetz the quarterback during Cummisford's era and he said their presence as all-Americans helped him immensely. "I got to see the best every day in practice," he said. "That made me better." But he also helped himself. "I realized I wasn't going to be big so I had to make up for that with hustle," he said. "And I'd always try to think out situations and outsmart teams. If it was third-and-seven, what would I do?" What he often did is intercept the pass coming his way.

Also attending Carroll when Cummisford was at the school were future Waukesha West cross country coaches Chris Ramsey and the late Tony Bralick. Both of Cummisford's children attended West- his son, Kevin, running for Bralick and his daughter, Krista, running for Ramsey. That led Jeff Cummisford to get involved in the Fox River Park course at the school.

"I must have cut down 1,000 trees by myself," he said. "I went through two chain saws. The National Honor Society and parents helped and one day we had 500 employees from GE Medical helping on the course. It was kind of a neat thing. I'm really proud of that course."

Cummisford also helped coach cross country at West as a volunteer and coached youth soccer and baseball for many years. "When I graduated from college, I was interested in coaching but I decided to get into business instead," he said.