to the safety position. Kress suffered a slight concussion during a practice session at the end of July 1954. Kress did not play in any regular season games for the Redskins. Business career Kress was the son of Ralph H. Kress (July 10, 1904–June 28, 1995), who was known in mining and engineering circles as the "father of the off-highway truck." In 1965, Ted Kress founded the Kress Corporation in Brimfield, Illinois. During his lifetime and thereafter, the company has been a manufacturer of specialized industrial equipment for transporting and handling steel, slag, coal and other heavy materials for the steel mills, for the mining industry, and also for earth moving. His father joined the company in 1969. The company's first product was a slag pot carrier that was used to pick up, transfer, pour and skull slag pots from blast furnaces. It later expanded into the manufacture of coal haulers and slab carriers used to pick up and carried 100 tons of steel slabs and coils. Family and death Kress was married to Rita Kress. They had one son, Nathan Kress. During his lifetime, Ted was the president and CEO of Kress Corp., and Rita was the treasurer. Kress died in February 2003 at the OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. Following his death, his wife Rita became president and CEO of Kress Corp. References 1931 births 2003 deaths Michigan Wolverines football players People from Peoria, Illinois Businesspeople from Illinois 20th-century American businesspeople