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| Born: | (1942-02-08)February 8, 1942 (age 83) Mount Prospect, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Career information | |
| Position(s) | QB |
| College | Northern Illinois |
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| As player | |
| 1964,1966–1967 | Montreal Alouettes |
| 1968–1969 | Chicago Owls |
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George Bork (born February 8, 1942) was anAmerican football player in the 1960s.
The 6–1, 185 pound Bork rewrote theNorthern Illinois University football record book with some help from end Hugh Rohrschneider during his junior and senior years at theDeKalb school. In 1962, Bork broke 14 college passing records ranging from yardage gained to best completion percentage. The following year, he bettered 10 of his records, tied one and set nine more for a total of 20. He also set a record of 244 pass completions during the 1963 NIU season.
He was the first collegequarterback at any level to throw for 3,000 yards in one season. Bork first played football atArlington High School, where he was an all-conference selection. Offered abasketball scholarship toMichigan, the athlete turned it down because he wanted to play football.
Bork played in 1964 to 1967 with theMontreal Alouettes in theCanadian Football League, while with the Alouettes he worked as a gym teacher at Sir Winston Churchill High School in Ville St-Laurent he then signed with theChicago Owls of theContinental Football League in 1968.
He was inducted into theCollege Football Hall of Fame in 1999.[1][2]
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