1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team
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The <entity_0> won the professional <entity_2> championship of <entity_1>. Over the next two season (1900 and <entity_1>), Homestead fielded the best professional <entity_2> team in the country and did not lose a game. When Fultz first announced the lineup in late September, it included Pete Overfield (center from Penn), Bemus Pierce (left guard from the Carlisle Indian School), Art Poe (right end from Princeton), "Hoppy" Hunt (left end from Brown University), Daff Gammons (left halfback from Brown who also played baseball for the Boston Beaneater in <entity_1>), Fred Crolius (fullback from Dartmouth who played professional baseball and ranked fifth in the National League after being hit by a pitch 10 times in <entity_1>), Maxson from Maryland, Frank Woodley (quarterback from Penn), Arthur Mosse from the University of Kansas (later a coach at Pittsburgh), Bob Shiring from Pittsburgh, McNulty (right guard from Notre Dame), Weinstein (right tackle from Pittsburgh), Nieman from the University of Cincinnati, Shields from Pittsburgh, and Perry Hale (fullback from Yale who also coached the Exeter <entity_2> team and joined Homestead in mid-November after Exeter's last game). There was no organized professional <entity_2> league in <entity_1>, and most of Homestead's games were played against college <entity_2> teams. On <entity_1>, Homestead defeated the Brown University <entity_2> team by a score of 34 to 0. By late <entity_1>, Homestead and Philadelphia team was recognized as the strongest professional <entity_2> teams in the United States, and a Philadelphia admirer of <entity_2> offered up a cup to be awarded to the winner in a match between the two teams. Despite their success on the field, the <entity_1> Homestead team was not a financial success, as "the winningest team in pro <entity_2> was a financial loser again, dropping $8,000." The success of the <entity_1> Homestead team also spurred interest in the formation of a nationwide professional <entity_2> league. In <entity_1>, Pulliam told a reporter: "There were 7,000 persons out to see the Homestead and Philadelphia teams play … and I believe that strong teams evenly matched in the cities named will appeal to the average <entity_2> crank.
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