Dennis Hilgenberg
And more Hilgenbers have come forward: Football really does seem to get people together. Dennis Hilgenberg wrote to say his great-grandfather, Carl, who died age 34 in 1911, is buried in Oakwood cemetery in Syracuse, N.Y.
His grandfather called Frederick, who died in 1999 at the age of 89 said Carl had had a brother who had moved to the Iowa area around 1900. This brother it seems is related to the football stars Wally and his son Jay Hilgenberg.