Read The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Images of Sports)

The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Images of Sports)

Unknown Author

4.9/5 (16595 ratings)

Description:Southwestern Pennsylvania is heralded by many as the birthplace of professional football. Here lived the athletes who were first paid to play. In Pittsburgh, the Allegheny Athletic Association paid Pudge Heffelfinger $500 in 1892 to help them beat their rivals, the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. In Latrobe, the first all-professional club was fielded in 1897. The Birthplace of Professional Football celebrates the contributions that the towns in southwestern Pennsylvania made to the sport, a national obsession in this country. These stories also come from towns such as Jeannette and Greensburg and include Latrobe's failed attempt to secure the Professional Football Hall of Fame in the late 1940s and 1950s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Images of Sports). To get started finding The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Images of Sports), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Release: 2004

ISBN: 073853675X

Description: Southwestern Pennsylvania is heralded by many as the birthplace of professional football. Here lived the athletes who were first paid to play. In Pittsburgh, the Allegheny Athletic Association paid Pudge Heffelfinger $500 in 1892 to help them beat their rivals, the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. In Latrobe, the first all-professional club was fielded in 1897. The Birthplace of Professional Football celebrates the contributions that the towns in southwestern Pennsylvania made to the sport, a national obsession in this country. These stories also come from towns such as Jeannette and Greensburg and include Latrobe's failed attempt to secure the Professional Football Hall of Fame in the late 1940s and 1950s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Images of Sports). To get started finding The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Images of Sports), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Images of Sports)

The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Images of Sports)

More Books