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Semi-final game (played on Saturday Dec. 19, 1925 for the Pennsylvania Blue Laws) between the Northside Traders & Glassport Odds on Duquesne’s campus.
The Odds, one of the most infamous teams to rise from the Western Pennsylvania Football Circuit, were undefeated before this game — and the final quarter.
*Three players named in this game also appear on the 1923 roster of Art J. Rooney Sr.\'s Hope & Harvey team : Chuck Noggler (pictured), Harp Vaughn (pictured) & Dave Packard.
(1) Foote, the star kicker of the Odds, getting off one of his long punts in the first quarter (2) Chuck Noggler heading for the Glassport end in the second period. (3) Sammy Weiss booted his placement goal in the second period. (4) Twenty-seventh Ward Traders - front row, Davies, Rush, Volosky, Regrub, Leahy, Dolan, Carson. Middle row - Keenan, Snair, Harvey, Taylor, Keifner, Knell, Lindner, Noggler. Back row - Kokosh (manager), Schwilm, Weixel, Beardy, Gerky, Wonn, Graitz, Williams, Sweeney, Vaughn, Moran (president).
(4) photos & newspaper clippings are pasted to 14 x 24” board w/ heavy toning & wave from water exposure. Remarkably only one image suffers corner chips that do not affect.
Early, presumably unique, piece from one of the cradles of American professional football.
