Paddock is the only player in school history to have a petition circulated by the student body requesting that he play for the Bulldogs.

[4] Paddock went unnoticed his freshman year at halfback, until he was moved to the quarterback position in the game with Georgia Tech and led the Bulldogs to a 20 to 0 victory.

[3][7] Parke H. Davis in selecting Paddock All-American wrote, "Thus the greatest quarterback the south has known in years has figured little in the public prints of the north, yet here is a man who has played quarterback as steadily as Logan, as brilliantly as Barrett, and who has excelled each by combining the talents of both.

This man is Paddock, of Georgia, to whom is given the position as quarterback upon this mythical all-American team.

"[8] Supposedly he spent one year at Cornell University, but was overlooked for its football team.