JODIE'S GETTING MARRIED

Your editor will be away now for almost two weeks, so the web site will not be updated during my absence. I hope that you will all join with me in wishing my daughter Jodie all the best when she gets married February 6th.

One of my favourite photos of Jodie (in Three Rivers Stadium) was taken when we went to Pittsburgh in 1997 for the Denver game and the only thing that she remembers is how cold it was!

Trying to look cool, not cold, Jodie 1997 Pittsburgh.

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LA BULLDOGS

I’m still buying books on the Steelers. It’s almost the same passion that I have for purchasing old photos and programs. I had hoped to share a 1936 program of the Steelers against the Los Angeles Bulldogs with you, but it appears to have got lost in the post. LA who, I hear you ask?

You should take note because the Bulldogs were the first professional football team to go unbeaten in a season. The franchises was created with the intention of joining the National Football League in 1937, but were eventually turned down in favour of the Cleveland Rams.

They went unbeaten in 1937 as part of the American Football League, becoming the first pro football team to win a league championship with a perfect record (no losses or ties), having won all eight of its league games that season (counting all their exhibition games, they won 18 in all).

One of their fixtures during the Bulldog’s unbeaten season was against the Pittsburgh Americans so there’s the story for another day.

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BYRON WHITE

I have touched on the subject of Byron White before. He was a significant part of the Steelers’ early history and the story emerges regularly in books about the team. In the Steelers Reader, a book edited by Randy Roberts and David Welky, the tale of White reappears once again.

The amusing part for me was Art Rooney’s observation; “In 1938 I did something that I thought would bring a little class to the game. I signed Whizzer White out of Colorado University for a salary of $15,800, which was easily the highest salary pro football was paying.

White was very hard to sign. I don’t remember what the last eight hundred was for – whether it was for exhibition games or whether he had a Rhodes scholarship and needed the eight to go to Oxford, or what. Anyway, the fifteen got pro football a lot of publicity, and of course White was an asset to the game, but I did catch some heat from the other owners.”

Byron White earned his nickname, “Whizzer” while at the University of Colorado. After leading the University of Colorado to its first ever bowl appearance, White was named as a member of the All-American Football Team in 1937.

During CU's undefeated football season of 1937, he played on offense, defense and as a kicker. Through eight games he rushed for 1,121 yards.
 
An athletic phenomenon, Byron White was also a superb basketball player and a .400 hitter in baseball (his favourite sport) at CU. Although he disliked the sports nickname, "Whizzer," bestowed on him during those days at CU, the nickname stuck and followed him throughout his life.

White led the NFL in rushing for the Pittsburgh Pirates and returned to the NFL in 1940 as a running back for the Detroit Lions.

White's NFL stats can be found here>>>

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