Bud Korchak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian football player
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Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
About Bud Korchak
- Borden Walter "Bud" Korchak was a Canadian football player.
- He was nicknamed the "Golden Toe" and the "Ukrainian Gazelle".A native of Winnipeg, Korchak played junior football with the St.
- John's Grads and Intermediate football with Elmwood before moving up to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
- He was a flying wing (flanker/slotback in more modern terms) and also one of the best placekickers in the early 1950s.
- Korchak played six seasons for the Bombers (1949-54), and was the West's All-Star Flying Wing in 1952 and 1953 (there were no CFL All-Stars until 1962).
- Korchak finished third in the West in scoring in 1952 with 69 points and led the West in scoring in 1953 with 66 points, winning the Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy.
- Most impressive perhaps was his convert percentage in 1952 when he clicked on 29 of 31 extra point attempts for a 93% success rate, very good for that era.
- In 1955, Korchak joined the powerful Montreal Alouettes team and his 60 points was good for fifth in the East.
- That season, Korchak booted an astounding 49 converts in 52 attempts in just 14 games for a 94.2% success rate.
- He split the 1956 season between Montreal and Ottawa and finished his career with the Calgary Stampeders in 1957.
- His best seasons as a receiver were 1951, with 34 catches for 491 yards and 1952, with 31 catches for 551 yards.
- He scored 334 total points. Korchak was elected to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Hall of Fame in 1996.
- He died February 5, 2010.
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