| Mike Kostiuk | |
| Number: | 28, 71 |
| Position: | Offensive tackle |
| Birth Date: | 1 August 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Krydor, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Death Place: | Sterling Heights, Michigan |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 0 |
| Weight Lb: | 212 |
| High School: | Hamtramck (Hamtramck, MI) |
| College: | Detroit Tech |
| Undraftedyear: | 1941 |
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| Statlabel1: | Games played |
| Statvalue1: | 7 |
| Statlabel2: | Games started |
| Statvalue2: | 3 |
| Pfr: | K/KostMi20 |
Michael A. Kostiuk (August 1, 1919 – July 26, 2015) was a Canadian-born gridiron football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL).
Kostiuk was born in Krydor, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Ukrainian parents.[1] [2] He moved with his family to the United States when he was 5 and would grow up in Hamtramck, Michigan.[3] He died of heart failure in 2015 in Sterling Heights, Michigan.[3] He was the oldest living Detroit Lion when he died.[3]
Kostiuk attended Hamtramck High School from 1934–1937, where he made All-City in 1935 and 1936, Detroit Tech from 1937-1940 on a football scholarship.[3] In 1939, he earned a position on the Little All-American Team. The players on this elite team were chosen from Class B colleges throughout the country. He left Detroit Tech in 1941 to play for the Cleveland Rams.[3] In 1942 he entered the United States Army and continued his football career there, making the Armed Forces All-Star team in 1943.[3]
After leaving the Army in 1945, he signed with the Detroit Lions. In 1946 he joined the Buffalo Bisons. He played a total of seven National Football League games with the Detroit Lions and two All-America Football Conference games with the Buffalo Bisons and one with the Cleveland Rams. On November 6, 1986, he was inducted into the Hamtramck High School Sports Hall of Fame.