 After Notre Dame he played for the Philadelphia Eagles for three seasons and was team captain in 1935 and 1936.He left the Eagles to restart the football program at Saint Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania in 1937.In 1942 he joined the NFL again as a staff coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers, then served as an assistant at the College of the Holy Cross in 1943 before returning to the Steelers as head coach during the 1945 campaign.