National Football Foundation

A walk-on offensive lineman for Notre Dame’s 1977 National Champion football team, Bob Burger helped the Fighting Irish to a 36-10-1 record and two Cotton Bowl victories in four seasons under College Football Hall of Fame coach Dan Devine.

Compiling a 3.7 GPA as a pre-med student, he was a First Team Academic All-American and the recipient of the Knute Rockne Student-Athlete Award, the Monsanto Award, the National Merit Scholarship and the Pott Foundation Scholarship. Burger was a member of the St. Mary’s Collegiate Choir and Alpha Epsilon Delta.

Burger earned his M.D. and completed his internship, residency and fellowship at the University of Cincinnati. He is currently a physician at Beacon Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in the Greater Cincinnati area. Burger is the head team physician and co-director of sports medicine at Xavier University, the associate team physician for the Cincinnati Reds, an orthopedic surgeon for the College of Mt. St. Joseph and the team physician for LaSalle High School in Cincinnati. In 2006, he was inducted into the Academic All-American Hall of Fame. In 2013, he received the Notre Dame Monogram Club’s Exemplar Award.