Michael A. Kostiuk (August 1, 1919 – July 26, 2015) was a Canadian-born gridiron football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL).
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Position: | Offensive tackle | ||||
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Born: | (1919-08-01)August 1, 1919 Krydor, Saskatchewan, Canada | ||||
Died: | July 26, 2015(2015-07-26) (aged 95) Sterling Heights, Michigan | ||||
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||
Weight: | 212 lb (96 kg) | ||||
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High school: | Hamtramck (Hamtramck, MI) | ||||
College: | Detroit Tech | ||||
Undrafted: | 1941 | ||||
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Kostiuk was born in Krydor, Saskatchewan, Canada.[1][2] He grew up in Hamtramck, Michigan, United States, a community mainly of Polish immigrants and their children but with some other Ukrainins, adjacent to Detroit after his family moved from Canada when he was 5.[3] He died of heart failure in 2015 in Sterling Heights, Michigan.[3] He was the oldest living Detroit Lion when he died.[3]
Kostiuk attended Hamtramck High School from 1934–1937, where he made All-City in 1935 and 1936, Detroit Tech from 1937-1940 on a football scholarship.[3] In 1939, he earned a position on the Little All-American Team. The players on this elite team were chosen from Class B colleges throughout the country. He left Detroit Tech in 1941 to play for the Cleveland Rams.[3] In 1942 he entered the United States Army and continued his football career there, making the Armed Forces All-Star team in 1943.[3]
After leaving the Army in 1945, he signed with the Detroit Lions. In 1946 he joined the Buffalo Bisons. He played a total of seven National Football League games with the Detroit Lions and two All-America Football Conference games with the Buffalo Bisons and one with the Cleveland Rams. On November 6, 1986, he was inducted into the Hamtramck High School Sports Hall of Fame.
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