Pittsburgh Indians were a mid-twentieth-century American soccer club based in

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsylva ...

. It began as Pittsburgh Stasser before becoming the Indians in 1947.

History

In 1946, several successful Midwest U.S. teams organized the first professional, regional soccer league outside of the east coast. The

North American Soccer Football League The North American Soccer Football League, also known as the North American Football League, was a soccer league that operated for two seasons, 1946 and 1947. Fred Weiszmann was the league founder and first president in 1946 while Leslie O'Conno ...

played an eight-game season in 1946, then the first half of the 1947 season before collapsing in the fall of 1947. Peter Strasser entered a team, known as Pittsburgh Stasser in the league. Pittsburgh was renamed the Indians in 1947 and led the standings for the first half of the season. As the league collapsed soon after, they are considered the de facto 1947 champions.

Year-by-year

References

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