Pittsburgh, a Football City
Pittsburgh is a city with a rich history of football, we have professional, collegiate, and high school teams. Who have all accomplished many great things and are known nationally. Our teams have won nationally and many good players and people have came from this city. September 3, 1895 the first professional game was played. The game was between the Latrobe Athletic Association and the Jeannette Athletic Club. Back into 1897 the Latrobe Athletic Association paid all of its players. Then becoming the first fully professional football team. “Early professional football teams from western Pennsylvania include; the McKeesport Olympics, Oil City Athletic Club, Pitcairn Quakers and Glassport Odds.”
Football at the collegiate level began in 1889 at the University of Pittsburgh, then known as the Western University of Pennsylvania. The first official collegiate game in Western Pennsylvania was played on October 11, 1890. Washington & Jefferson was also competitive with some of the top teams in the nation. In 1913, the Presidents, led by Bob Folwell, team posted a 10–0–1 record and were the highest scoring team in the nation.
The first Pittsburgh football team you think of is the Steelers, Created in 1933. The team was founded by Arthur J. Rooney. The Rooney family has owned and been in charge of the club for its entire history. They are the seventh-oldest club in the National Football League. Originally called the pirates, the name was changed in
This game symbolized the start of changing times in the US and would eventually start a fervor in the US that would bring to the table many unforetold modifications to not only the sport in and of itself, but also the culture around it and how it was looked upon and accepted. One of the first progressive altercations that football brought to the table was women bringing and having a heavy influence in the sport. Even when compared to the other biggest American sporting event baseball, football had a much bigger focus on the numbers of women in the stands thus allowing football to be able to bring to the table something that not many other sports, toughness with sexuality at the same time. Now a rough and tough “manly” game did not have to be only for the male but could also serve other purposes such as a date or a social get together where no one would ever get bored due to the fast pace of the game along with the never before seen mixture of both men and women all in one giant stadium. This sexuality helped ring in the age of women being looked at as more so objects of sex as well as helping to bring sports onto a sort of plain on which anyone could go and see and have a team to root for instead of them simply catering to men of respectable
The National Football League was officially founded on September 17, 1920 in Canton, Ohio. Ralph Hay, the owner of the Canton Bulldogs, is credited with the organizing of the meeting in which the NFL was agreed upon. The original 14 teams were the Buffalo Bison, the Akron Pros, the Canton Bulldogs, the Chicago Tigers, the Cleveland Indians, the Columbus Panhandles,
Today, the National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from major American cities and regions. The league was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, and adopted the name "National Football League" in 1922. The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues of North America.
About a year later in 1927 Wink Texas showed up on the map its population increased from 0 to 3,500, Then About two years later, it was 6,000. They built a high school and oil companies operating in the area helped fund a football team for wink high school. They hired fathers of good prospects moved to wink to bring good players, oil founded uniforms and everything they needed.It was the only thing that was able to help community pride and help source more people for money.They had 12 wins and 0 loses each game had high numbers of touchdowns by the end of the season the had a total of 485 touchdowns and the other teams all together 71
Pittsburgh Steelers Did you know that the Steelers have won the most Super Bowl’s? Since the beginning of professional football, they they won six. The Steelers have the killer bees ;their names are Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown, and Le'veon Bell. Ben nickname is Big Ben It is because three people could be tackling him and he won’t go down but the other team will only be pushing him back. Ben is six foot five.
It was a clear afternoon on November 10th, 1928 when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team took the field against the Black Knights of Army. Army was the number one team in the nation that year, and Notre Dame was having one of their worst seasons ever under the leadership of legendary coach Knute Rockne. At the end of the opening half, neither team had managed to score.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a prime example of a Discourse community. They have set goals and are not going to let anything get in the way of those goals. As every NFL team has the goal of winning a Championship only 1 team achieves that goal each year. Some teams just aren’t good in general and some are great, but let little issues interfere with their team chemistry which makes them lose. Then there are teams that come together on issues and work them out so that they can be as successful as they can, but with this season there is a huge issue that all teams are going to have to go through and that is the National Anthem.
American football is one of the most popular games played and followed in United States. Many believe it to be No. 1 sport in North America and take it as religion than sports. It is dream of majority of youngster to pursue their careers in American football, as it is source of wealth and glory. To attain a successful career one has to play this game before he is 14. He has to be part of High School League, College League, and eventually National Football League (NFL).
We see injuries in pretty much every sport now a days. People refuse to let their children play sports because they are worried of them getting hurt. Football is one of those sports that have to deal with injuries on a daily basis. Football as a sport is highly praised in the United States. People truly love not only playing the game but also watching the college players and the professionals. The game of football first originated on November 6, 1869. It was actually two universities—Rutgers and Princeton—that made up the first college football game. The first NFL game was played on December 18, 1932. Football has clearly been around for a really long time and there seems to be no sign of the sport slowing down.
Since the introduction of organized team sports into American culture, numerous sports have stepped into the limelight for certain periods of time but none have stuck around as long as football has. Just as with everything else in life, football has had it’s fair share of drawbacks since its invention in the mid-19th century. Despite the drawbacks and criticism football has faced, its role and influence on American culture between the 1890’s and 1930’s far outweigh the negative aspects of its past.
“Football became my ticket to a college scholarship which, in western Pennsylvania during the early ‘sixties, meant a career instead of getting stuck in the steel-mills” (4). Football is the number one
The Green Bay Packers are the oldest team to never change its name or location. The New York Football Giants joined the league in 1925. The Portsmouth Spartans joined in 1930. The Spartans relocated to Detroit in 1934 and became the Detroit Lions. The Indianapolis Colts also trace their roots back to a founding member of the APFA, the Dayton Triangles, but are considered a separate franchise from the Triangles and was founded in 1953 as the Baltimore Colts.
Before providing context into the history of social equity in public administration and a discussion of the major challenges that confront public administrators in the delivery of equitable public services. It is important to know how this study defines social equity and public services. The definition of social equity is taken from NAPA and is defined as “The fair, just, and equitable [emphasis added] management of all institutions serving the public directly or by contract; and the fair and equitable distribution of public services, and implementation of public policy; and the commitment to promote fairness, justice, and equity [emphasis added] in the formation of public policy” (as cited in Norman-Major, 2011, p. 237). Public services are
The first recorded game between two college teams occurred on February 9, 1895, when Hamline University versus University of Minnesota, were Minnesota won from a score of 9-3.
The history of football is interesting as well as exciting, from the first forms of the game ever played, to the multi million dollar organizations of today. The game continues to evolve and change with the times.