Cas Myslinski
Myslinski featured on 1955 Topps trading card
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 6, 1920 Steubenville, Ohio |
| Died | October 26, 1993 (aged 73) South Fayette, Pennsylvania |
| Playing career | |
| 1941–1943 | Army |
| Position(s) | Center |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1968–1982 | Pittsburgh |
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Casimir J. "Cas" Myslinski (March 6, 1920 – October 26, 1993) was an American university administrator, United States Air Force and Army officer, and college football player.
Myslinski grew up in a poor family of Polish immigrants in Steubenville, Ohio. He was the third child of Felix Myslinski and Stella Dziegelewski. He had seven brothers (Joseph, John, Clement, Thaddaeus, Peter, Paul, and Stanley) and one sister (Helen). After the eighth grade, he spent three years in the work force, including jobs in a steel foundry, selling papers, and in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah. Myslinski then belatedly continued his education at Steubenville High School, where he played football three years.
Despite scholarship offers from Columbia University and Ohio State University, Myslinski wrote Army head football coach Earl Blaik about attending the United States Military Academy at West Point. Myslinski's father had developed an interest in the military academy as a boy in his native Stawiski, Poland. An Army scout visited Myslinski and reported back to Blaik that he was "a hell of a man with a beautiful pair of legs." The head coach notified Ohio Congressman George H. Bender, who provided Myslinski with an appointment to West Point.
At West Point, he played college football as a center. In 1943, he was a consensus first-team All-American selection. He graduated from West Point as a member of the Class of 1944.
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