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The team began as an amateur football club in 1890 and was composed primarily of locals before several paid players were added for 1895. 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 ...
The first ever professional football all-star game held between the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club and players from Western Pennsylvania All-Stars. [15] Adam Martin Wyant (Greensburg Athletic Club) was the first professional football player to get elected to the United States Congress in 1921. [27]
The roster of the 1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team: [18] [19] Edgar Guilford (right tackle/Team Captain) He received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1899 and lived in Waterbury, Connecticut. A. A. Marshall (left end) received his Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1894 and was in the Law School class of 1897.
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 football club to play a full season while composed entirely of professional players.
The football fortunes of the Western University of Pennsylvania were finally going to be noticed nationwide. But the WUPs would first have to endure a horrible 1903 football season. [19] In its first season under head coach Arthur Mosse, the team compiled a 1–8–1 record and was outscored by a total of 262 to 25. [20]
On October 24, the Western University squad traveled to California, Pennsylvania, to play the football team of the California Normal School. The WUP was in control throughout this game and leading 12–0 with 10 minutes to play in the second half when the officials mercifully ended the game.
The men of Greensburg were much too strong for the University eleven and won the game handily by a score of 47–0. The Greensburg team of 1897 had 27 players and was able to use many scrubs in this game. The Greensburg Athletic Association and Washington & Jefferson Presidents ended the season with the best football records in Pennsylvania.
The 1904 football season was a tremendous success both on the field and financially for the Western University of Pennsylvania.Coach Arthur Mosse wrote an in depth article for the December 4 edition of the Pittsburgh Press praising all the people in Pittsburgh who contributed to the team's success.