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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania

Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania

Aikens, Tom
Finoli, David

Hardcover

FictionFootball

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1531621600
ISBN13: 9781531621605
Publisher: Arcadia Lib Ed
Published: Oct 27 2004
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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.

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