[2] He also played in the American Football League for the Hollywood Rangers, with whom he scored 18 touchdowns on 65 carries.

In 1945, Mathews entered the United States Army and coached football, basketball, and baseball for Fort MacArthur.

Upon his discharge a year later, he was a player-coach for the Chicago Rockets in the All-America Football Conference before joining the San Francisco 49ers.

[5][2] He coached at Arizona for two years; after the 1951 season, amid turmoil involving incumbent head coach Bob Winslow, Mathews was suggested as his successor by the team's players, but the program instead hired Warren B. Woodson who did not retain Mathews.

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