Paquin grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts, and he attended Fordham University where he played college football as an end.
[2] Fordham finished the 1936 season with a 5–1–2 record, but was more storied than its more successful counterparts from the subsequent year or the late 1920s.
The final game was an upset at the hands of their cross-town rivals and heavy underdogs, NYU, which precluded a Rose Bowl invitation.
Instead, Paquin took a coaching position at Xavier High School in Manhattan, where he remained for the next four decades.
Paquin worked at Xavier as a football coach, athletic director, and an English and Latin teacher.