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Union Club of Phoenixville, the Glossary

The Union Club of Phoenixville was a professional football team based in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.^[1]

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1907 establishments in Pennsylvania
1921 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
Early professional American football teams in Pennsylvania

Akron Pros

The Akron Pros were a professional football team that played in Akron, Ohio from 1908 to 1926.

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Baker Bowl

National League Park, commonly referred to as the Baker Bowl after 1923, was a baseball stadium and home to the Philadelphia Phillies from 1887 until 1938, and first home field of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1933 to 1935.

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Bert Bell

De Benneville "Bert" Bell (February 25, 1895 – October 11, 1959) was the fifth chief executive and second commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from 1946 until his death in 1959.

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Bodie Weldon

John Ambrose "Bodie" Weldon (November 7, 1895 – May 25, 1928) was a professional football player during the 1920s.

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Buffalo team (NFL)

Buffalo, New York had a turbulent, early-era National Football League team that operated under multiple names and several different owners between the 1910s and 1920s.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Butch Spagna

Joseph "Butch" Spagna (May 15, 1897 – December 11, 1948) was a professional football player during the 1920s.

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Canton Bulldogs

The Canton Bulldogs were a professional American football team, based in Canton, Ohio.

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Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago.

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Cleveland Tigers (NFL)

The Cleveland Tigers were the first Cleveland team franchise in what became the National Football League (NFL).

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College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.

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Conshohocken Athletic Club

The Conshohocken Athletic Club was a professional football team based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, from 1914 until 1920, when the club's financial problems made it impossible to field a team. Union Club of Phoenixville and Conshohocken Athletic Club are early professional American football teams in Pennsylvania and History of Pennsylvania.

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Earl Potteiger

William Earl Potteiger (February 11, 1893 – April 7, 1959) was an American football, baseball, and basketball player and coach.

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Frankford Yellow Jackets

The Frankford Yellow Jackets were a professional American football team, part of the National Football League from 1924 to 1931, although its origin dates back to as early as 1899 with the Frankford Athletic Association.

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Fritz Pollard

Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986) was an American football player and coach.

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Heinie Miller

Henry John "Heinie" Miller (January 1, 1893 – June 9, 1964) was an American football player and coach from 1920 to 1942.

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History of the Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears American football franchise is a charter member of the National Football League (NFL), and has played in all of the league's 100 seasons.

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Holmesburg Athletic Club

The Holmesburg Athletic Club was a professional football team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, that was in existence from around 1915 until 1923. Union Club of Phoenixville and Holmesburg Athletic Club are early professional American football teams in Pennsylvania and History of Pennsylvania.

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Jim Thorpe

James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28,Sources vary. See, for example, Flatter, Ron., ESPN. Retrieved December 9, 2016, and Golus, Carrie (2012)., Twenty-First Century Books. p. 4.. 1887March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist.

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Joe Guyon

Joseph Napoleon "Big Chief" Guyon (Anishinaabe: O-Gee-Chidah, translated as "Big Brave"; November 26, 1892 – November 27, 1971) was an American Indian from the Ojibwa tribe (Chippewa) who was an American football and baseball player and coach.

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Lehigh University

Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

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Lou Little

Luigi "Lou Little" Piccirilli December 6, 1891 – May 28, 1979) was an American football player and coach born in Boston, Massachusetts. City of Boston, Birth Registrations, number 8583, December 6, 1891 After Lou's birth, his father changed his family name to "Little", translating the Italian family name and moved his family to Leominster in 1896.

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Lud Wray

James R. Ludlow "Lud" Wray (February 7, 1894 – July 24, 1967) was a professional American football player, coach, and co-founder, with college teammate Bert Bell, of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL).

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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Ockie Anderson

Oscar Carl "Ockie" Anderson (October 15, 1894 – January 25, 1962) was an American football player and coach.

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Ohio League

The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1902 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship (OIC).

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pete Calac

Pedro "Pete" Calac (May 13, 1892 – January 30, 1968) was a professional football player who played in the Ohio League and during the early years of the National Football League (NFL).

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Philadelphia Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia.

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Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Pottstown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio.

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In gridiron football, a punt is a kick performed by dropping the ball from the hands and then kicking the ball before it hits the ground.

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Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Schuylkill County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Schulkill Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Spanish flu

The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.

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Stan Cofall

Stanley Bingham Cofall (May 5, 1894 – September 21, 1961) was an American football player and coach.

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Swede Youngstrom

Adolf Frederick "Swede" Youngstrom (May 24, 1897 – August 5, 1968) was a professional football player.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer, often referred to simply as The Inquirer, is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Touchdown

A touchdown (abbreviated as TD) is a scoring play in gridiron football.

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Union Quakers of Philadelphia

The Union Quakers of Philadelphia were a professional independent football team, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1921. Union Club of Phoenixville and Union Quakers of Philadelphia are 1921 disestablishments in Pennsylvania and early professional American football teams in Pennsylvania.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Club_of_Phoenixville

Also known as Phoenix Athletic Club, Phoenixville Union Club.

Union Club of Phoenixville, the Glossary

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See also

1907 establishments in Pennsylvania

1921 disestablishments in Pennsylvania

Early professional American football teams in Pennsylvania

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