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Chapters: Baltimore Colts (1940s) Players, Miami Seahawks Players, Frank Filchock, George Blanda, Bill Daley, Lu Gambino, Y. A. Tittle, Hamp Pool, Frank Sinkwich, Bus Mertes, Charlie O'rourke, Art Donovan, Jim Spavital, Edward J. King, Jim Castiglia, List of Baltimore Colts Players, Elmer Madar, Herman Wedemeyer, Hardy Brown, Billy Hillenbrand, Sisto Averno, J.t. "Blondy" Black, Albin "Rip" Collins, William J. Leonard, Leon Campbell, Dub Jones, John North, Lee Artoe, Adrian Burk, Augie Lio, Chick Maggioli, Al Wukits, Art Spinney, Paul Salata, Al Klug, Harry Hopp, Ernie Case, Jim Sivell, Chick Jagade, Herb Rich, Harold Crisler, George Buksar, Walt Mcdonald, Joel Williams, Ralph Ruthstrom, Jake Leicht, Cotton Price, List of Miami Seahawks Players, Hub Bechtol, Jack Simmons, Frank Spaniel, Stan Kozlowski, George Perpich, Paul Berezney, John Mellus, Don Colo, Mitchell Ucovich, Dick Barwegan, George Hekkers. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 160. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: As Player As Coach Frank Joseph Filchock (October 8, 1916 June 20, 1994) was an American and Canadian football tailback/quarterback and coach. As a consequence of a famous scandal regarding the 1946 NFL Championship game, he was suspended by the National Football League from 1947 to 1950 for associating with gamblers. Born in 1916 in the small Pennsylvania mining town of Crucible, Filchock was a star player at Redstone Township High School and later at Indiana University. After graduating from university, he became the second pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates (now the Pittsburgh Steelers) in the second round of the 1938 NFL draft. The Pirates' first first-round draft choice that year was Byron (Whizzer) White of Colorado, who later became a U.S. Supreme Court judge. Filchock appeared in six games for the Pirates in 1938, ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=43713