A native of North Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, McDonough graduated from St. Thomas High School.
The teams' merger was result of the staffing shortages experienced league-wide due to World War II.
Six days before the team's second game of the season, McDonough was drafted into the United States Army.
[1] Coley later became a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania police officer, and served fifteen years with that department.
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.