BATON ROUGE – LSU Athletics Hall of Fame member and two-way football star in the years after World War II, Ebert Van Buren, passed away on Friday in Monroe at the age of 94 at the Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home.
Van Buren’s late brother Steve, is a member of the LSU and NFL Halls of Fame. Ebert Van Buren was a 2015 inductee into the LSU Athletics Hall of Fame.
Ebert Van Buren never played high school football, but that didn’t matter to former LSU football head coach Bernie Moore. Coach Moore found Van Buren playing on the Metairie playgrounds and recruited him to LSU in 1947.