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Mike McCormack (American football)
Michael Joseph McCormack (June 21, 1930 – November 15, 2013) was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played with the Cleveland Browns from 1954 through 1962 and served as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, the Baltimore Colts and the Seattle Seahawks. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1984.
==Playing career==
McCormack played college football at Kansas and assumed that he would take up a career as a high school coach. He was drafted by the New York Yanks in the 1951 NFL Draft, but had to wait until the third round before being taken. After the 1951 season concluded, he was conscripted into the US Army and served in the Korean War. While he was away, the Yanks moved to Dallas and became the Dallas Texans, which folded after just one season. McCormack came home in 1954 to find that his team had ceased to exist, so he became a free agent and was immediately signed by the Baltimore Colts, a new franchise created the previous year to replace the defunct Yanks/Texans. Cleveland Browns founder Paul Brown had not forgotten seeing McCormack play in his rookie season three years earlier and was sufficiently impressed that he decided to add him to the roster in a trade exchange with Baltimore. In his first season with the team, he played on the defensive line, and famously grabbed the ball out of Lions QB Bobby Layne's hands (in what the referees ruled as a fumble recovery) in the 1954 NFL Championship game against the Detroit Lions helping set up an important early touchdown.
The following season, he was shifted to offensive tackle and helped the Browns once again capture the NFL title. He would play a key role in helping legendary running back Jim Brown become one of the dominant players in the game, ending his career with four selections to the Pro Bowl.
Paul Brown. legendary Cleveland Browns founder, owner, and coach, stated in his 1979 memoir, ''PB: The Paul Brown Story'', “I consider (Mike) McCormack the finest offensive tackle who ever played pro football.” Also, according to Paul Zimmerman's 1984 book, ''The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football'', Brown also stated that McCormack was the best offensive lineman he ever coached.〔Zimmerman, Paul. ISBN 0-671-45394-7, Simon & Schuster, 1984, p. 54.〕 The book states that McCormack "()ould handle the Colts' Gino Marchetti better than any tackle in the game. Power combined with great intelligence and 4.8 speed. 'I've seen him have games,' former player and NFL executive Bucko Kilroy says, 'where if you were grading him, he'd score 100. Not one mistake, and his guy would never make a tackle.'"
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