Tuufuli uperesa biography of william

MISSOULA — Tuufuli Uperesa, who captained the Montana football team to a Camellia Bowl appearance in and went on to play for the Philadelphia Eagles, has died.

Kristin Uperesa of Billings, Tuufuli's ex-wife and the mother of four of his seven children, confirmed that the year-old passed away on Monday in American Samoa.

He was battling kidney failure and other ailments.

Uperesa played both guard and tackle for the Grizzlies when they took a perfect record into the Camellia Bowl in That game was for the I-AA national championship and Montana lost to North Dakota State, , after 14 Grizzlies were ruled ineligible due to junior college transfer rules.

"He was a character," said Kristin, who met Tuufuli at the University of Montana and was married to him from to "He was funny and outgoing in his earlier years.

Lately I think he was struggling. He was kind of in and out."

Tuufuli was with the Eagles for three years,