He played college football at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a consensus selection at the end position on the 1937 College Football All-America Team.

[1] He was selected in the fifth round of the 1938 NFL draft.

[2] Bershak also played basketball at North Carolina and led both the basketball and football teams to Southern Conference championships.

[3] Bershak later served as an assistant football coach and scout for North Carolina.

He died in 1943 in Clairton, Pennsylvania.