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Joe Mihal

American football player (1916–1979)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Joseph Mihal was an American professional football player who was a tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for two seasons with the Chicago Bears. He was elected as a starter for the 1939 Chicago College All-Star Game. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the third round of the 1939 NFL draft.

Editorial summary

“Joe Mihal” enters the record as american football player (1916–1979). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mihal, American and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mihal, American and football.
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“Joe Mihal” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mihal, American and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1939.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joe Mihal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.