Mathewson Football Pic?

[vintagesportflips]

Here is an image of the 1902 Pittsburgh Pros football team (with Christy Mathewson included) that competed against Connie Mack's A's football team. The image is from the book: Illustrated History of Pro Football.

[ramram]

[QUOTE=kjjavic;1466424]Here is an image of the 1902 Pittsburgh Pros football team (with Christy Mathewson included) that competed against Connie Mack's A's football team. The image is from the book: Illustrated History of Pro Football.

Whoa! Is the player in the middle of the photo an African-American?? If so, that is REALLY interesting considering several of the football players that were on these teams were actually baseball players from the segregated Major League.

Rob M.

[vintagesportflips]

Rob, the player you are looking at is Native American. There were several prominent Native American football players in pro football at that time, including Bemus Pierce (a former Carlisle Indian star player). I am not sure who the player on Pittsburgh was, but Bemus played for Connie Mack's team.

[jboosted92]

Originally Posted by kjjavic

Here is an image of the 1902 Pittsburgh Pros football team (with Christy Mathewson included) that competed against Connie Mack's A's football team. The image is from the book: Illustrated History of Pro Football.

Nice