got into contractual disputes three times with Paul Brown, the Browns' head coach and general manager, and frequently held out for raises. His highest salary with the Browns was $9,500 in 1949. The AAFC dissolved after the 1949 season and the Browns were absorbed by the National Football League (NFL). Yonakor, however, was sold before the 1950 season to the NFL's New York Yanks. He played a season for the Yanks before signing with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League in the summer of 1951. he played a final season for the NFL's Washington Redskins in 1952 before retiring. He was used by the Redskins as an end and a tackle. Later life Yonakor went back home to Boston after ending his football career and worked in several sales jobs he found unsatisfying. He planned to go to California to find work, but stopped off in Cleveland on the way to make some money for the journey onward. He worked briefly in the structural iron business before getting a job in 1956 at Republic Steel, then one of the country's largest producers of the metal. He was promoted in 1959 to superintendent of Republic's general labor department and oversaw more than 500 workers. He got married and settled down in Cleveland, attending Browns games as he worked at Republic. "I learned teamwork and got used to being around men and learning to get along with them," he said in 1960. "Out here at Republic we operate on the same theory as the Browns – all for one and one for all." In 1961, Yonakor began working for the White Motor Company in Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland where he lived. He made diesel engines on an assembly line in a White Motors plant there. His son, Rich Yonakor, was a star athlete in Euclid who played basketball in Italy and one season for the San Antonio Spurs in the early 1980s. Yonakor died in Euclid in 2001. References Bibliography External links 1921 births 2001 deaths American football defensive ends American football ends American players of Canadian football Cleveland Browns players New York Yanks players Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players Montreal Alouettes players Washington Redskins players All-American college football players United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II People from Dorchester, Massachusetts Players of American football from Boston American people of Lithuanian descent Mechanic Arts High