Mike McCormack (American football)
McCormack in 1973
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| Position: | Offensive tackle | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | June 21, 1930 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Chicago, Illinois | ||||||||
| Date of death: | November 15, 2013 (aged 83) | ||||||||
| Place of death: | Palm Desert, California | ||||||||
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| High school: | Kansas City (MO) De LaSalle | ||||||||
| College: | Kansas | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1951 / Round: 3 / Pick: 34 | ||||||||
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| Win–Loss Record: | 29–51–1 |
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| Winning %: | .363 |
| Games: | 81 |
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Michael Joseph McCormack (June 21, 1930 – November 15, 2013) was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played with the Cleveland Browns from 1954 through 1962 and served as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, the Baltimore Colts and the Seattle Seahawks. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1984.
McCormack played college football at Kansas and assumed that he would take up a career as a high school coach. He was drafted by the New York Yanks in the 1951 NFL Draft, but had to wait until the third round before being taken. After the 1951 season concluded, he was conscripted into the US Army and served in the Korean War. While he was away, the Yanks moved to Dallas and became the Dallas Texans, which folded after just one season. McCormack came home in 1954 to find that his team had ceased to exist, so he became a free agent and was immediately signed by the Baltimore Colts, a new franchise created the previous year to replace the defunct Yanks/Texans. Cleveland Browns founder Paul Brown had not forgotten seeing McCormack play in his rookie season three years earlier and was sufficiently impressed that he decided to add him to the roster in a trade exchange with Baltimore. In his first season with the team, he played on the defensive line, and famously grabbed the ball out of Lions QB Bobby Layne's hands (in what the referees ruled as a fumble recovery) in the 1954 NFL Championship game against the Detroit Lions helping set up an important early touchdown.
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