Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team won the professional football championship of 1901. The team was affiliated with the Homestead Library & Athletic Club in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. The team featured a lineup of former college All-Americans paid by Pittsburgh Pirates' minority-owner William Chase Temple.
The Carnegie Library of Homestead is a public library in Munhall, Pennsylvania founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1898. It is one of 2,509 Carnegie libraries worldwide; 1,689 built in the United States.
In 1900, most of the Duquesne players were hired by the Homestead Library & Athletic Club, by offering them higher salaries. [2] Over the next two seasons (1900 and 1901), Homestead fielded the best professional football team in the country and did not lose a game. The 1900 team reportedly paid its player "from $50 to $100 a game plus 'expenses ...
In a lively phone chat, Wayne Newton discussed 'Danke Schoen,' 'Summer Wind' and other hits, and his strategy for sizing up each crowd.
Edsel Matthews, who played critical roles at Springfield Public Schools and Drury University, helped start the Bass Pro Tournament of Champions. Edsel Matthews, the 'gold standard' of athletic ...
Homestead's coach and captain in 1899 was halfback George Lowery, who had played with Duquesne C. & A.C. in 1895–1897 and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club in 1898. [3] [4] [5] Prior to Homestead adopting blue and white colors for the 1900 season, The Pittsburg[h] Post stated that the club's colors were red and black. [6]
Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall is replacing its floor seats, and you can buy a pair. Show up in the Munhall venue's parking lot between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. June 22-23 if you want to snag a pair of ...
English: Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, 1901. Top row, left to right: Daff Gammons, Art Poe, John Winstein, Brute Randolph, Hawley Pierce, Arthur ...