The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-24
By SAM DAVIS
(NEA Staff CorrespOndent)

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 New York-Dazed and amazed by 1t all, William Avner Paschal, Jr., who was out two years after playing all of three minutes of college foot ball-as freShman-iS the Ma tional leagues leading ground gain CT.
 Shy, blond and blue-eyed Bill Paschal came from nowhere as a nobody to put the New York Giants in the eastern division playof for the right to battle the Chicago Bears for the championship. The recurrence of a knee injury suffered while starring for Tech high of Atlanta put the 22-year-old six-foot, 190-pound Paschal on the sideline at Georgia Tech, where he matriculated on a scholarship. Bill Alexander knew what he had.
 Oddly enough" smiles the per- sonable Paschal, who is just a big kid, T didn't hurt the knee play ing football. I hurt 1t falling out of g. double e-decker bed while asleep at the University of Georgia, where my high school team was having fall practice"
 Young Paschal made the all-city, state and southern teams in 1889, was coached by Gabe Tolbert, who turned out such luminaries as Tom Hargrove of Alabama and Stumpy Thomson of Georgia Tech.
 BILL THE BREAD WINNER Christmas of 1S40 found Paschal minus the knee cartilage. Georgia Tech paind the bill, but Bill married comedy Carolyn, whom he met in college, had to drop out of school to be a bread winner, worked at the railroad yards.
 From the time of his operation until August of this year, Paschal did not have a football in his hands. But he possessed campus fever. hung around the Tech grounds, elbowing and chewing the fat with youngsters who would have been classmates. Last March Coach Alexander asked PaSchal if he would be interested in returning to football.
 Sure" said Bill, If my knee
 Alexander buzzed Grantland Rice, who wrote Steve Owen. Paschal ar- rived in New York in May, got a job in a Brooklyn shipyard.
 Professional players of any kind especially the football variety are hard to get these days, so you can imagine Staut Steve Owens de- light when at Bear Mountain in August the unheralded unknown snapped right into it-as though he'd been playing all the while Whatta pickup!
 Modest Bill Paschal gives all credit to Tuffy Leemans. The Giants have the old college try, he points out, are nervous and tense before each game, fight for deah old Steve The lad talks with pronounced southern accent.
 PLANS RETURN TO SCHOOL
 Paschal played only briefly wher Sid Luckmhan set records as the Bears smothered the Polo Ground CTS, 56-7, was grounded for prac. ticaly three full games as the re. suit of injuring his ankle in tht match with Green Bay. Yet he car. ried oftener than any other back ir the circuit-147 times for 572 yard. and an average of 3.9.
 PaSchal assisted in coaching Trin. ity high of New York this fall, vii be head man next season.
 He is anxious to complete hi. education, plans to be 8 college coach.
 At home he flddles with a motior picture camera just purchased, talk. ing shots of Billy III and Diane eight weeks.
 He is fond of mothers cooking especially southern fried chicken but his pretty missus better no hear of this.
 His only idiosyncrasy is that hi. socks must be neatly straight ir football shoes that fit perfectly which is precisely how Bill Pascha fits into professional football.