Joseph Mihal (April 2, 1916 – September 18, 1979) was a professional

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

player who played as a tackle in the

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(NFL) for two seasons with the

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. He was elected as a starter for the 1939 Chicago College All-Star Game. He was selected in the third round of the 1939 NFL draft. Mihal played for the Bears in their 73–0 victory over the

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in the 1940 NFL Championship Game. He served in

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for the

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* * 1916 births 1979 deaths American football tackles Chicago Bears players Chicago Rockets players Los Angeles Dons players Purdue Boilermakers football players Sportspeople from Homestead, Pennsylvania Players of American football from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Players of American football from Gary, Indiana United States Army personnel of World War II 20th-century American sportsmen {{offensive-lineman-1910s-stub