Professional Football Career and After
Franco had a brief professional career: He was a 5th round selection (31st overall) of the Cleveland Rams in the 1938 NFL Draft, but didn't stay with the team. On December 9, 1939, Franco married his sweetheart Anna May McGinley, a nursing student at Bayonne Nursing School. Franco decided not to continue his professional career, however, since at that time football paid little. Franco returned to Fordham as a line coach for six years, where he helped the Rams gain a Cotton Bowl Classic bid in 1941 and a Sugar Bowl bid in 1942.
In 1944 Franco returned to the NFL and won the starting tackle job in his first game as a member of the Boston Yanks. He coached a the American Association Jersey City Giants. Franco worked as the eastern scout for the Green Bay Packers and the Washington Redskins along with coach and close friend Lombardi.
Franco later owned several successful businesses in Jersey City and Secaucus and worked for the Meadowlands Racetrack. He died on November 18, 1992 at the age of 77. He was survived by his three children, Margaret, Ned, and Rosemary, six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
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