[1] Prokop played college football at Georgia Tech under coach William Alexander and was a 1969 Hall of Fame inductee there.

[2] In the 1944 Sugar Bowl Prokop led his #13 Yellow Jackets to 20–18 victory over #15 ranked Tulsa.

Prokop was the fourth overall pick of the 1945 NFL draft, selected by the Boston Yanks, and played for them in the 1946 and 1947 seasons.

He played for the Chicago Rockets in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1948, and then returned to the Yanks, who became the New York Bulldogs in 1949, his final season as a professional.

[5] At age 33 in 1955, Prokop suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, originally thought to be heat exhaustion, at his Cleveland home.