Cas Myslinski

Casimir J. Myslinski (March 6, 1920 – October 26, 1993) was an American university administrator, United States Air Force and Army officer, and college football player.

Early life Myslinski grew up in a poor family of Polish immigrants in Steubenville, Ohio.

At West Point, he played college football as a center. In 1943, he was a unanimous All-American selection. He graduated from West Point as a member of the Class of 1944.

He was stationed in Texas for training as a pilot for a B-24. While serving as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces, he played football for the Third Air Force team, the "Gremlins". Myslinski had a 22-year career in the Air Force before retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

In 2015, he was inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame.

Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh appointed Myslinski as its athletic director on December 24, 1968, and he held that position for fourteen years. The Pittsburgh Press described him as stern and with an ever-present military bearing. It also credited him for overseeing "the return to glory of the football team and the rise to success of the basketball team."

He died of heart failure on October 26, 1993, at the Country Meadows Nursing Home in South Fayette, Pennsylvania, at the age of 73.