CHICAGO – Redshirt junior defensive lineman David Burton (St. Louis, Mo./Parkway West) earned Mid-States Football Association (MSFA) Midwest League Defensive Player of the Week for the Saint Xavier University football team (5-4/3-0 MSFA Midwest) when the awards were announced by the league office Monday afternoon. Burton totaled three tackles (one solo), two fumble recoveries, a sack for five yards, a forced fumble and a touchdown in the Cougars 44-22 victory over Judson University (Ill.) in MSFA Midwest League action last Saturday at Bruce R. Deaton Memorial Field in Chicago, Ill.

• Burton scooped up a fumble at the 15-yard line and rumbled into the end zone to give SXU a 28-7 lead early in the second quarter. He had a strip-sack on fourth down midway through the third period, and he recovered his second fumble of the game.
• In nine games this season, Burton has 33 tackles (15 solos) with 9.5 tackles for loss for 35 yards, 5.0 sacks for 26 yards, four pass breakups, four quarterback hurries, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
• He is the third player for Saint Xavier to claim MSFA Midwest League Defensive Player of the Week this season.

Saint Xavier (5-4/3-0 MSFA Midwest) makes its way to Indianapolis, Ind. to play No. 7 ranked Marian University (Ind.) in a clash between the two unbeaten programs left in the MSFA Midwest League on Saturday, November 7. The game is scheduled for a 12:05 pm central start.