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1897 Greensburg Athletic Association Season ...
The 1897 Greensburg Athletic Association season was their eighth season in existence. The team finished 10–1. Schedule Game notes References * * {{Greensburg Athletic Association seasons Greensburg Athletic Association Greensburg Athletic Association seasons Greensburg Athletic Association The Greensburg Athletic Association was an early organized football team, based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, that played in the unofficial Western Pennsylvania Professional Football Circuit from 1890 until 1900. At times referred to as the Greensb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Barclay (baseball)
George Oliver Barclay (May 16, 1876 – April 3, 1909) was an American football and baseball player. He played Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and later the Boston Beaneaters. He was also an early professional football player-coach for the Greensburg Athletic Association. He was nicknamed "The Rose" for his concern with his looks and "Deerfoot" because of his speed. Barclay also invented the first football helmet. Baseball career Minor leagues Barclay began his professional baseball career in 1896 with the Chambersburg Maroons in the independent Cumberland Valley League. He continued to play both football and minor league baseball. In 1901, he batted .335 for the Rochester Bronchos of the Eastern League, earning him a look from the Cardinals. Cardinals Barclay was 25 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 17, 1902, with the St. Louis Cardinals. Two of the team's starting outfielders, Jesse Burkett and Emmet Heidrick, had jumped to the ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Offutt Field (Greensburg)
Offutt Field is a multi-purpose athletic field, located in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. It is currently used by the Greensburg-Salem School District and Seton Hill University, primarily as a football field. The stadium was called Athletic Park, until 1928 when Greensburg-Salem renamed the field after James H. Offutt, a community leader, and school director. The school district had previously purchased the land in December 1916. The purchase price for the 4.4-acre site was $17,166.66. The Greensburg Athletic Association, an early organized football team based in Greensburg, played their home games at the stadium from 1890–1900. The stadium has also hosted minor league baseball, Little League baseball and track and field. Offutt Field is currently the stadium with longest service in southwestern Pennsylvania. History Pro football The field was the home of the Greensburg Athletic Association, a professional football team during the 1890s. The field's playing surface once had a str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 Greensburg Athletic Association Season
The 1896 Greensburg Athletic Association season was their seventh season in existence. The team finished 6–1–1. Alfred Sigman from Lafayette College was added as Greensburg's captain and coach and also played fullback. Schedule Notes and references * {{Greensburg Athletic Association seasons Greensburg Athletic Association Greensburg Athletic Association seasons Greensburg Athletic Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Greensburg Athletic Association Season ...
The 1898 Greensburg Athletic Association season was their ninth season in existence. The team finished 6–2–2. The team was managed by J. E. Mitinger, coached by George Barclay (who also played halfback) and captained by Joe Donohoe (who played end). Schedule Notes and references * * {{Greensburg Athletic Association seasons Greensburg Athletic Association Greensburg Athletic Association seasons Greensburg Athletic Association The Greensburg Athletic Association was an early organized football team, based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, that played in the unofficial Western Pennsylvania Professional Football Circuit from 1890 until 1900. At times referred to as the Greensb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greensburg Athletic Association
The Greensburg Athletic Association was an early organized football team, based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, that played in the unofficial Western Pennsylvania Professional Football Circuit from 1890 until 1900. At times referred to as the Greensburg Athletic Club, the team began as an amateur football club in 1890 and was composed primarily of locals before several professional players were added for the 1895 season. In 1894 it was discovered that the team had secretly paid formerly Indiana Normal (now Indiana University of Pennsylvania) player, Lawson Fiscus, to play football and retained his services on salary. The team was the chief rival of another early professional football team, the Latrobe Athletic Association. Aside from Fiscus, the Greensburg Athletic Association included several of the era's top players, such as: Charlie Atherton, George Barclay, Ross Fiscus, Jack Gass, Arthur McFarland, Charles Rinehart, Isaac Seneca and Adam Martin Wyant. Several of these players rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannette Athletic Club
The Jeannette Athletic Club, also referred to as the Jeannette Indians, was an early football team, based in Jeannette, Pennsylvania from 1894 until around 1906. The team is best known for its role in the Latrobe Athletic Association's hiring of John Brallier, who became the first player to openly turn professional. This event occurred in 1895, a few days before Latrobe's game against Jeannette. Latrobe starting quarterback, Eddie Blair, due to a scheduling conflict could not play in the game. This led Latrobe manager, Dave Berry to hire Brallier to play against Jeannette for $10, plus expenses. Latrobe would go on to win that game 12-0. However, Jeannette also had a rivalry with the nearby Greensburg Athletic Association. In 1894, Greensburg player, Lawson Fiscus reportedly kicked a Jeannette player in the face, however the ''Pittsburgh Press'' reported that Fiscus tripped the player and "purposely tramped on his neck." This led to Jeannette loudly petitioning the umpire to expel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchdown
A touchdown (abbreviated as TD) is a scoring play in gridiron football. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchdown by advancing the ball into the opponent's end zone. In American football, a touchdown is worth six points and is followed by an extra point or two-point conversion attempt. Description To score a touchdown, one team must take the football into the opposite end zone. In all gridiron codes, the touchdown is scored the instant the ball touches or "breaks" the plane of the front of the goal line (that is, if any part of the ball is in the space on, above, or across the goal line) while in the possession of a player whose team is trying to score in that end zone. This particular requirement of the touchdown differs from other sports in which points are scored by moving a ball or equivalent object into a goal where the whole of the relevant object must cross the whole of the goal line for a score to be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Geneva Covenanters Football Team
The 1897 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1897 college football season The 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Penn and Yale as having been selected national champions. Conference and program changes Conference establishments * .... Led by first-year head coach Ross Fiscus, Geneva compiled a record of 3–4–1. Schedule References Geneva Geneva Golden Tornadoes football seasons Geneva Covenanters football {{collegefootball-1890s-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Western University Of Pennsylvania Football Team
The 1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Schedule Season recap On December 8, 1896, Thomas "Doggie" Trenchard was engaged to train the Western University of Pennsylvania (WUP) athletes commencing on January 1. His appointment rekindled hope that WUP would regain some measure of respect in athletic competitions. Trenchard was an 1895 graduate of Princeton University, where he played baseball and football all four years and captained the undefeated 1893 Princeton Tigers football team that won the national championship. Upon graduation, he coached at the University of North Carolina for the 1895 season and then at West Virginia University for the 1896 season prior to taking the position with WUP. According to the ''Western University Courant'', the reason for the inepti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Duquesne Country And Athletic Club Season
The 1897 Duquesne Country and Athletic Club football season was the third season of competition for the American football team representing the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team compiled a record of 8–3. Schedule References {{Duquesne Country and Athletic Club Duquesne Country and Athletic Club Duquesne Country and Athletic Club seasons Duquesne Country and Athletic Club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Latrobe Athletic Association Season
The 1897 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their third season in existence. The team finished 10–2–1. This season, Latrobe became the first team to be made entirely of professional players and play an entire season together. Schedule Game notes References * {{Latrobe Athletic Association seasons Latrobe Athletic Association The Latrobe Athletic Association was a professional football team located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, from 1895 until 1909. A member of the unofficial Western Pennsylvania Professional Football Circuit, the team is best known for being the first f ... Latrobe Athletic Association seasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh Athletic Club (football)
The Pittsburgh Athletic Club or the Pittsburg Athletic Club football team, established in 1891, was based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1892 the intense competition between two Pittsburgh-area clubs, the Allegheny Athletic Association and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club, led to William (Pudge) Heffelfinger becoming the first known professional football player. Heffelfinger was paid $500 by Allegheny to play in a game against Pittsburgh on November 12, 1892. As a result, Heffelfinger became the first person to be paid to play football. Allegheny would go on to win the game, 4–0, when Heffelfinger picked up a Pittsburgh fumble and ran it 35 yards for a touchdown. In 1893, Pittsburgh again made history when it signed one of its players, probably halfback Grant Dibert, to the first known pro football contract, which covered all of the team's games for the year. History Origins In 1891 the Pittsburgh Athletic Club, then called the East End Gymnasium Club, decided to field a footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
