Ed Mularchyk is a former award winning Canadian Football League player.
Mularchyk played with Windsor AKO Fratmen,Windsor AKO Fratmen helping win the national Junior championship in 1954 (against the Winnipeg Rods).Winnipeg Bows in Junior Final Leader-Post, November 22, 1954 He played one season with the Ottawa Rough Riders and won the Gruen Trophy as Canadian rookie of the year in the east, though there was some controversy surrounding his selection.Kinsella's Corner: Rookie of the Year isn't eligible to win, by Jack Kinsella, Ottawa Citizen, November 3, 1958. NOTE: Though Mularchyk won the Gruen Trophy as a member of the Ottawa Rough Riders, there seems to be no record of him having played a regular season game for Ottawa in 1955. His name does show in line up cards for 1956. He later attended the University of Western Ontario, playing footballStu McNiell still a Pro Windsor Star, November 1, 1961 and becoming an ophthalmologist.DEATHS * AVIS DE DECES, Canadian Medical Association Journal 1992; 147 (9), November 1, 1992.
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