Paul McKee (American football)

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Paul Melvin McKee (April 26, 1923 – January 23, 1999) was an American professional football end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Syracuse University and was selected in the twelfth round of the 1945 NFL draft. He played for the Redskins for two years. Like Joe Namath after him, McKee starred in football, basketball, and baseball at Beaver Falls High School in Beaver Falls, PA (1938–1940). In addition to playing football at Syracuse, McKee was a wartime reserve on the Orange basketball team, scoring three points in the one game in which he played (1942–1943). McKee's best game with the Redskins happened to be Sammy Baugh Day, November 23, 1947, when future NFL Hall of Famer Baugh was honored and presented with a new station wagon. Playing against the champion Chicago Cardinals that day, Baugh threw for 355 yards and had six touchdown passes, with McKee catching two of them and the 'Skins defeating the Cardinals 45–21. On November 28, 1948, McKee was ejected from a game for decking with a hard right another future Hall of Famer, the Chicago Bears' Clyde "Bulldog" Turner. This was after Turner had stunned him with a fore

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