University of North Dakota Athletics

  He lettered as a football and trackman, 1929-31 on the teams that were known and featured throughout the breath of this great country. He was a super fullback, known as the "Bombastic Buster", and played on nationally-ranked Sioux football teams that compiled a 26-4-1 record, winning three straight North Central Conference championships. He was team captain in 1931, the year the Sioux defeated the Los Angeles Fireman on Christmas Day in Los Angeles, 14-9. He twice was named to the All North Central Conference team at fullback. Mr. Burma was a very fine ball-carrier and gained many yards for the Sioux. Had there been a proliferation of All America teams we have today there is little doubt that he would have been named to all of them. Burma was a teacher and coach at Ortonville, Minn., 1932-4 and from 1944 util this retirement in 1974 a high school counselor at Owatonna, Minn.