Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-24 | Page 16 | Backseat Driving

y FRANK K BAKER TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOR EDITO Back home from the professional football wars Paul 11 McDonough Donough the former University of f Utah end is planning planning plan plan- ning ing to to continue his law studies at the university during the winter inter and spring semesters Paul fairly bubbles over with enthusiasm over his professional professional experience with the Pittsburgh Pirates Counting preseason preseason pre pre- season season and non non-Iea non league ue skirmishes he participated in n 15 games r I He He agrees the pro game is plenty tough says collegiate practice Is a picnic compared to the preparatory work with the money boys and has hopes now of taking another whirl at the game next fall The Pirates still have two games to play but they are spread over three weeks and Paul was permitted to stop off off at home here as the club club headed east again after a trip west to play at Colorado Springs and Los Angeles during the past ten days Paul who was one of the tIle greatest ends ever developed at the university here saw plenty of action this season after getting his diploma at Utah last spring five Fifty-five assignments assignments assign- assign ments came in a number of the games The six-foot-five- six inch Winch star rose to pounds as the season began and lost only a few pound as the campaign moved along r. r 4 i k A friend looking him over critically remarked about P P. P s l appearance and ma marveled v d that hat h he had come through the campaign without a scratch ff UH How ow did dd I you do d. d 0 it It h he e as asked k e d I r. r Oh I just dodged em ern he grinned jt I with Byron White the Colorado star during the season I 4 Hes one grand football man and a swell fellow he said in description of the American All-American and Rhodes scholar whose yard 95 95 gallop beat Utah here a year yeat ago Its hard for the average fan to realize how tough the going really was for Byron What with hi his advance publicity and 15 salary he was a marked man fro from the start Nobody spared him He took some terrific on occasion and there were a few tunes times when I actually had to help him get out of bed in inthe inthe inthe the morning He has really vindicated himself though He was extremely popular with his teammates and is still planning on ongoing going to Oxford to accept that scholarship Hes He's sailing in two or r three weeks I believe Pro football produces some strange rivalries There is t the case of McDonough's 1 trip to Detroit for a game with the f. f Lions Paul had never seen a pro game until he participated I j in one H He tells teUs it this wa way i We Ve kicked off There was a short runback and then I we lined up for the first scrimmage play of the game I x looked across the line and there staring lg me squarely in the was Jack Jack Joh Johnson son who vho was one of the best tackles ever ti l turned out at Utah 1 i i You know I began begaii as as' asa a t tackle at Utah Then Ike Coach cach Armstrong moved me to end Well anyway Jack was one of the boys who taught me a lot of my preliminary l 1 lessons about line play And nd after all that I have to windup windup wind wine up face to face with him in my first pro game Be that a ait as ast ast it t may Jack is greater than ever I know He taught me mea a a. few less lessens ns in that game