Career
He played college football at the University of North Carolina and was drafted in the third round of the 1957 NFL Draft. Even while playing professional football, Sutton began attending medical school, then after graduation from the University of Tennessee, he began a practice in Gardena, California. He left the practice for two years when he was drafted into the United States. Army Medical Corps, where he served two years in a M.A.S.H. unit in Vietnam.
Relocating in 1978, he started his long-time occupational medicine practice in Fresno, California, known as Valley Industrial and Family Medical Group.
In 1999 Doctor Sutton was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. A few months prior to his death, he completed his autobiography entitled "Tales of the Comet: The Fast-Paced Life of Editor Sutton," in conjunction with Bob Terrell.
Sutton died September 20, 2008 at Sequoyah Cardiac Surgery Hospital in Redwood City, due to complications following heart bypass surgery.
