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Born:(1910-06-15)June 15, 1910
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Leo Paquin (June 15, 1910 – December 2, 1993

end for Fordham University as part of the 1936 line known as the "Seven Blocks of Granite". After graduating from Fordham, he eschewed a professional football career in favor of a 40-year career as a high school football
coach and teacher.

Biography

Paquin grew up in

Four Horsemen. Incidentally, Jim Crowley, who coached Paquin and the second Seven Blocks of Granite had been one of the Four Horsemen.[2]

Fordham finished the 1936 season with a 5–1–2 record, but was more storied than its more successful counterparts from the subsequent year or the late 1920s. The final game was an upset at the hands of their cross-town rivals and heavy underdogs, NYU, which precluded a Rose Bowl invitation.[3] Nevertheless, Crowley called that Fordham squad the "greatest defensive team I've ever seen", implying that it was superior to his own Notre Dame teams which included the Four Horsemen and their front line, the "Seven Mules".[4] Paquin's graceful play earned him the nickname "Twinkletoes".[2] While at Fordham, he made the dean's list all four years.[2]

The

Latin teacher.[2] Paquin served a stint in the U.S. Navy during World War II.[5] He married Elsie Paquin, with whom he had a son, Leo, and two daughters, Noreen A. Then and Anne E. Kane. On December 2, 1993, he died in his sleep at his home in Rutherford, New Jersey. Paquin was 83 years old.[2]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Social Security Death Index for Leo F. Paquin, FamilySearch. Accessed March 6, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e Robert McG. Thomas Jr, Leo Paquin, 83, One of Fordham's Blocks of Granite, The New York Times, December 3, 1993.
  3. ^ Richard Goldstein, John Druze, Last of Fordham's Seven Blocks of Granite, Dies at 91, The New York Times, December 31, 2005.
  4. ISBN 0-684-87290-0
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  5. ^ David Maraniss, p. 91.
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