The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania

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.

About the author

Sportswriter David Finoli, a resident of Monroeville, has written three other books and has contributed to Pittsburgh magazine.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Aikens, David Finoli
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9780738536750
• ISBN: 978-0-7385-3675-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 236 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Series: Images of Sports; Images of Sports
• Subject: Guides > Sport > Ball sport