Former USC, NFL And CFL End Paul Salata, Founder Of Mr. Irrelevant Award, Dies

LOS ANGELES —Paul Salata, an end on the USC football team in the mid-1940s and then in the NFL and CFL who founded the Mr. Irrelevant Award to honor the last selection of the NFL Draft, died today (Saturday, Oct. 16) in Newport Beach, Calif., of natural causes. He was 94, passing a day shy of his 95th birthday.