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Posted By: Michael Moran

The writing on the Rare Photo Pittsburgh Homestead Pro Football Team identifies player I as Steinberg. In Pro Football Its Ups and Downs, p. 136, there is a picture of Dr. Paul Steinberg and the text says: Early in 1900 he finished Cornell with a fine record in sports, but the first we find about about him is as a football coach at Carthage, New York, and later his signing with Connie Mack as a catcher on the Athletics. He then played the notable season of 1902 with the Football Athletics, ending the year as a substitute on William Buck O'Neil's All Syracuse team which won a National Championship in Madison Square Garden, New York City, in December that year. The following season he was with the Champion Franklin team, which in its turn won a championship in the Garden. Season of 1904, he remained in Franklin and played with and coached a semi-pro team there; season of 1905 and '06 he played in Canton Ohio.