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John Rokisky
John Joseph "Rock" Rokisky ( – ) was a professional American football end and placekicker who played three seasons for the Cleveland Browns, Chicago Rockets and New York Yankees in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). Rokisky grew up in West Virginia and attended Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was a standout as an end and kicker. After a stint in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he joined the Browns in 1946. The Browns won the AAFC championship that year. Rokisky was sent to the Rockets in 1947 and to the Yankees the following year before leaving football.
==Early life and college career==
Rokisky grew up in Clarksburg, West Virginia and played as an end and a placekicker at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania beginning in 1939, when he was a sophomore. He scored nine points that year in an upset of the University of Pittsburgh.〔 In a December game against the University of Detroit Mercy Titans, he kicked an extra point to tie the game at 10–10 and preserve Duquesne's unbeaten record.〔 The Duquesne Dukes finished the season undefeated and were ranked eighth in the nation in the AP Poll of the best college teams. After the 1941 season, he was named an All-American by Collier's. At the end of 1941, he played on an eastern all-star college football team, one of three all-star squads he made during college.
After he graduated from Duquesne, Rokisky joined the U.S. Navy's Seabees, a construction battalion.〔 He played football for a military team at Camp Peary in Virginia and was selected to play on the Navy's all-star team.〔
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