John Edward Wozniak (August 2, 1921 – August 26, 1982) 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 ...
offensive guard
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* Offensive, the former name of the Dutch political party Socialist Alternative
* Offensive (military), an attack
* Offensive language
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who played nine seasons in the
All-America Football Conference, the
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...
and the
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League (CFL; french: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. The league consists of nine teams, each located in a ci ...
. He originally was drafted by the
Pittsburgh Steelers in the
1948 NFL Draft
The 1948 National Football League Draft was held on December 19, 1947, at the Fort Pitt Hotel in Pittsburgh. This was the second year that the first overall pick was a bonus pick determined by lottery, with the previous year's winner Chicago Be ...
and the
Brooklyn Dodgers in the
1948 AAFC Draft.
External links
NFL.com player page
1921 births
1982 deaths
Players of American football from Pennsylvania
American football offensive guards
Alabama Crimson Tide football players
University of Alabama alumni
Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC) players
New York Yankees (AAFC) players
New York Yanks players
Dallas Texans (NFL) players
Western Conference Pro Bowl players
Saskatchewan Roughriders players
People from Fayette County, Pennsylvania
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