Rudy Mucha

{{Short description|American football player (1918–1982)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Rudy Mucha

| number = 27, 16

| position = Guard
Center

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|7|22|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1982|9|7|1918|7|22}}

| death_place = Blue Island, Illinois, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lb = 236

| high_school = Chicago (IL) Fenger

| college = Washington

| draftyear = 1941

| draftround = 1

| draftpick = 4

| pastteams =

• Cleveland Rams ({{NFL Year|1941}}, {{NFL Year|1945}})
• Chicago Bears (1945–{{NFL Year|1946}})

| highlights =

• 2× NFL champion (1945, 1946)
• Consensus All-American (1940)
• First-team All-PCC (1940)
• Second-team All-PCC (1939)

| statlabel1 = Punts

| statvalue1 = 34

| statlabel2 = Punting yards

| statvalue2 = 1,384

| statlabel3 = Longest punt

| statvalue3 = 53

| pfr = MuchRu20

}}

Rudolph John Mucha (July 22, 1918 – September 7, 1982) was an American football guard for the Cleveland Rams and the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL).{{Cite web |title=Rudy Mucha Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MuchRu20.htm |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}} He was also a consensus All-American collegiate center for the University of Washington in 1940. Mucha was the first Washington Husky in school history to be taken in the first round of the NFL Draft.{{Cite web |title=Washington Players/Alumni |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/washington/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}} He went fourth overall in the first round of the 1941 NFL draft.{{Cite web |title=1941 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1941/draft.htm |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}} Mucha was named to the 1939 College Football All Polish-American Team.{{Cite web |last=Rosiak |first=A. J. |date=December 24, 1939 |title=In The Polish Colony |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2293&dat=19391224&id=FNFeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AQMGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1202,3199435&hl=pl |access-date=September 2, 2015 |website=The Sunday Morning Star |pages=14}}