Temple University Athletics
TEMPLE HALL-OF-FAMER MIKE JARMOLUK PASSES AWAY AT AGE 82
11.24.04 | Football
PHILADELPHIA - Mike Jarmoluk, a four sport star who was inducted into Temple University's Athletics Hall of Fame in 1975, passed away Tuesday of a heart attack at West Marion Community Hospital in Ocala, Fla. Jarmoluk, a Frankford High School graduate, played football, basketball, wrestling and track & field for the Owls and was an honorable mention All-American lineman on the gridiron under head coach Ray Morrison in 1945.
Jarmoluk, a three-year football letterwinner, had his tenure in Owl Country interrupted by military service. He enlisted in the Army in 1942, serving in the infantry and seeing action during World War II's infamous
Jarmoluk was drafted by the Detroit Lions with the 62nd overall pick of the 1945 draft and was traded to the Chicago Bears, for whom he was a starter when they won the 1946 championship. He was traded to the Boston Yanks in 1948 and then to the New York Bulldogs, for whom he played briefly the next year. He joined the Philadelphia Eagles, who were coming off their first championship in 1948, and played offensive and defensive tackle during the Eagles' second championship in 1949, a 14-0 victory over the Los Angeles Rams. Jarmoluk played for the Eagles from 1949-1955, wearing No. 78, and was named to the organization's all-time team in 1965. In 2000, he was named by the Philadelphia Daily News to the NFL's Hall Of Phame - the newspaper's list of the league's best-ever players from the
"I never wore a face mask, and my last game I was tackling somebody, and my chin came down right on his heel, and my teeth were knocked right through my skin," Jarmoluk said in a 2002 Daily News interview. "At halftime, I was stitched up, had a face guard sewn onto my helmet, and I went out and got Otto Graham three more times. It didn't get any better than that."
After his playing days were over, Jarmoluk worked for more than 30 years at Packaging Corp. of
