Mike Kostiuk
{{Short description|Canadian gridiron football player (1919–2015)}}
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{{Infobox NFL biography
| name = Mike Kostiuk
| image =
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| number = 28, 71
| position = Offensive tackle
| birth_date = {{birth date |1919|8|1}}
| birth_place = Krydor, Saskatchewan, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|7|26|1919|8|1}}
| death_place = Sterling Heights, Michigan
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 0
| weight_lb = 212
| high_school = Hamtramck
(Hamtramck, MI)
| college = Detroit Tech
| undraftedyear = 1941
| pastteams =
- Cleveland Rams ({{NFL Year|1941}})
- Detroit Lions ({{NFL Year|1945}})
- Buffalo Bisons (1946)
| highlights =
- First-team Little All-American (1939)
| statlabel1 = Games played
| statvalue1 = 7
| statlabel2 = Games started
| statvalue2 = 3
| pfr = K/KostMi20
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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).
Personal life
Kostiuk was born in Krydor, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Ukrainian parents.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070310221938/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=KOSTIMIK01 Mike Kostiuk]}}. databasefootball.com{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/K/KostMi20.htm|title=Michael Kostiuk|work=Pro-Football-Reference.com}} He moved with his family to the United States when he was 5 and would grow up in Hamtramck, Michigan.{{cite web|url=http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2015/07/27/detroit-lions-mike-kostiuk/30752093/|title=Oldest living Detroit Lion, Mike Kostiuk, dies at 95|author=Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press|date=27 July 2015|work=Detroit Free Press}} He died of heart failure in 2015 in Sterling Heights, Michigan. He was the oldest living Detroit Lion when he died.
Football
Kostiuk attended Hamtramck High School from 1934 to 1937, where he made All-City in 1935 and 1936, Detroit Tech from 1937 to 1940 on a football scholarship. 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. In 1942 he entered the United States Army and continued his football career there, making the Armed Forces All-Star team in 1943.
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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Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States
Category:American people of Ukrainian descent
Category:Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
Category:Gridiron football people from Saskatchewan
Category:American football offensive linemen
Category:Detroit Lions players
Category:Buffalo Bisons (AAFC) players
Category:Detroit Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Cleveland Rams players
Category:Sportspeople from Hamtramck, Michigan
Category:United States Army personnel of World War II
Category:Players of American football from Saskatchewan
Category:Players of American football from Michigan
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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