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Position: | Guard | ||||||||
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Born: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | July 22, 1918||||||||
Died: | September 7, 1982 Blue Island, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 64)||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 236 lb (107 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Chicago (IL) Fenger | ||||||||
College: | Washington | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1941 / round: 1 / pick: 4 | ||||||||
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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).[1] 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. He went fourth overall in the first round of the 1941 NFL draft.[2] Mucha was named to the 1939 College Football All Polish-American Team.[3]