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The Columbus Panhandles - A Complete History of Pro Football's Toughest Team, 1900-1922 (Paperback)
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The Columbus Panhandles - A Complete History of Pro Football's Toughest Team, 1900-1922 (Paperback)
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In 1901 workers at the Panhandle shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad
in Columbus, Ohio formed a professional football team called the
Columbus Panhandles. The railroad workers, mainly European
immigrants, learned the game of football not on college gridirons,
but on the sandlots of railroad yards during their lunch breaks.
With the leadership of an innovative team manager and its tough
physical play, the Panhandles went on to play for more than twenty
years as one of the most successful teams in the rag-tag days of
professional football. Incorporating original interviews and actual
newspaper accounts, Chris Willis recreates the largely forgotten
story of this unique squad of men. In The Columbus Panhandles: A
Complete History of Pro Football's Toughest Team, 1900-1922, Willis
shows how team manager, future NFL commissioner Joseph Carr, used
the perks of free railroad travel for employees and the gate
attraction of the famous Nesser brothers to build pro football's
most successful traveling team. Season by season, Willis provides a
fascinating account of the team's spectacular triumphs and crushing
losses. Full of wonderful newspaper quotes, entertaining anecdotes,
and many original photos, The Columbus Panhandles also profiles a
number of principle figures in the team's history, most notably
manager Joe Carr and the six Nesser brothers who comprised the
heart of the squad for many years. Written to honor the legacy of
the Columbus Panhandles, this book will be of interest to
historians, sportswriters and general football fans eager to learn
about the early days of professional football.
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