Joseph Katchik, Jr. (January 9, 1931 – February 9, 2014) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

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who played one season with the New York Titans of the

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(AFL). He was drafted by the

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of the

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(NFL) in the tenth round of the

1954 NFL Draft The 1954 National Football League Draft was held on January 28, 1954, at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. This was the eighth year that the first overall pick was a bonus pick determined by lottery. With the previous seven winners i ...

. Katchik was born at

Plymouth, Pennsylvania Plymouth is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located west of Wilkes-Barre, along the Susquehanna River. The population was 5,763 as of the 2020 census. History Plymouth was first settled in 1769 by the Susquehann ...

where he was educated in the public schools. From 1949 to 1950, he prepared for college at

Wyoming Seminary , motto_translation = Truth, beauty, and goodness , address = 201 North Sprague Avenue , location = , region = , city = Kingston , county = Luzerne , st ...

Kingston, Pennsylvania Kingston is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located on the western bank of the Susquehanna River opposite the city of Wilkes-Barre. Kingston was first settled in the early 1770s; it was incorporated as a borough in ...

after which he enrolled at the

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before transferring to

Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = Jo ...

College career

Katchik first played

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for the

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. He transferred to play football and basketball for the Dickinson Red Devils of

Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = Jo ...

Professional career

Katchik was selected by the

of the NFL with the 118th pick in the

. He played in two games for the AFL's New York Titans during the 1960 season.

References

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Just Sports Stats
{{DEFAULTSORT:Katchik, Joe 1931 births 2014 deaths Players of American football from Pennsylvania American football defensive tackles Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players Dickinson Red Devils football players Dickinson Red Devils men's basketball players New York Titans (AFL) players People from Plymouth, Pennsylvania American men's basketball players Wyoming Seminary alumni