Walter Jacob Cudzik was an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 center

Center (American football)

Center is a position in American football and Canadian football . The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense...

 in the National Football League

National Football League

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 for the Washington Redskins

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. He also played in the American Football League

American Football League

The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...

 for the Boston Patriots and the Buffalo Bills

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NFL

Cudzik was drafted

NFL Draft

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 in the eighteenth round of the 1954 NFL Draft

1954 NFL Draft

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 by the Washington Redskins

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The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...

, where he played up to 1959.

AFL

Cudzik was taken by the Boston Patriots in their inaugural season of 1960, where he played up to 1963. In his final year (1964), Cudzik became a member of the Buffalo Bills

Buffalo Bills

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 as their starting center, replacing Al Bemiller

Al Bemiller

Albert Delane Bemiller is a former American football offensive lineman for Syracuse University and in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills, playing on two league championship teams.-Buffalo Bills:...

, who was moved to right offensive guard to accommodate him. That year, the Bills scored 400 points (28.6 points/game), 1st among 8 teams in the AFL, and won the AFL championship under head coach

Head coach

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 Lou Saban

Lou Saban

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. In 1965, Cudzick was replaced by Dave Behrman

Dave Behrman

David Wesley Behrman is a former American football offensive lineman in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills and the Denver Broncos.-Buffalo Bills:...

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