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| Born: | (1915-10-10)October 10, 1915 North Braddock, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Died: | July 5, 1965(1965-07-05) (aged 49) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) |
| Weight | 189 lb (86 kg) |
| College | North Carolina State |
| Career history | |
| As player | |
| 1939 | Chicago Cardinals |
| 1939–1941 | Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1944 | "Card-Pitt" |
Coleman Regis "Coley" McDonough (October 10, 1915 – July 5, 1965) was a professionalAmerican footballquarterback in theNational Football League (NFL). He played four seasons for thePittsburgh Steelers and theChicago Cardinals.
A native ofNorth Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, McDonough graduated from St. Thomas High School. In 1944, he also played for "Card-Pitt", a team that was the result of a temporary merger between the Cardinals and the Steelers. The teams' merger was result of the staffing shortages experienced league-wide due toWorld War II. Six days before the team's second game of the season, McDonough was drafted into theUnited States Army.[1]
Coley later became aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania police officer, and served fifteen years with that department. Coley's badge number was 405.
On July 5, 1965, he was shot and killed in the line of duty, when he and two other officers answered a domestic disturbance call.[2] Leroy Scott, aged twenty-five, had gone to the Godfrey residence after midnight on July 5 to see his sixteen-year old girlfriend, Linda Godfrey, whom he had been barred from seeing. When her father, Aaron, intervened, an argument ensued and police were called to the scene. When police responded, Scott shot McDonough. Two other officers were injured. Aaron Godfrey was also killed, shot mistakenly by police. Scott fled and committed suicide in a nearby field.
McDonough's son and namesake, Coleman McDonough, went on to serve as a lieutenant colonel with thePennsylvania State Police (1983–2008) and later became chief of theMt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania Police Department (2009–2015) and superintendent of theAllegheny County Police Department (2016–2021).
