Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Friday, April 1, 2022
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Thursday, November 4, 2021
November 1925 - SPECTATOR - FOOTBALL NUMBER
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Friday, September 3, 2021
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Bethco Pines
Reader Jerry Karson sent in these gems from old Bethco Pines out at Quemahoning.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Cambria City Basketball
Reader Mike Mertle sent in this shot of old of the old basketball teams in Cambria City. It could possibly be St. Mary's before it became Immaculate Conception. His great uncle John R. "Huntz" Blimmel is in the second row - right hand side. Blimmel became a mortican who had a funeral parlor on Walnut Street into the late 1950's. The other names are unknown.
Cambria City Baseball
Reader Mike Mertle sent in this shot. It's a baseball team from Cambria City. The team in unknown. He says it was taken around 1908 to 1910. His grandfather - William J. Kesslak is in the second row - 2nd from left. The others are unknown.
Friday, July 17, 2015
Monday, June 22, 2015
Johnstown Collegians Football Champs - 1928
The Johnstown Collegians Football Champions - 1928
Front Row - left to right: Buzz Greer, Frank Zipf, Clark Shaffer, Art Miller, Cad Reese, Ed Felix, Tubby Porter, Ron Hazel, Joe Harnett.
Back Row - Mr. Scott, Dr. Rishell, Fred Zipf, Joe O'Conner, Edgar Warfel, Bill Tremain, Red Dolan, Chas. Reed, Raney Lewis, Gene Baker, Snaps Emanuel, Joe Gaffney, Red Shomo and Peter Culliton.
Note: The Gene Baker in the picture is the father of movie actress Carroll Baker who was born in Johnstown.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Terrible Terry McGovern
According to Wikipedia: Terrible Terry McGovern (March 9, 1880 – February 22, 1918) was an American professional box who held the World Bantamweight and Featherweight Championships. He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania as John Terrence McGovern.
McGovern won the Bantamweight Championship on September 12, 1899 when he knocked out Pedlar Palmer in one round by a series of heavy body blows. This was the first world championship bout under Queensbury Rules to end by a one-round knockout. He never defended the title and relinquished it in 1900.
He then moved up in weight and captured the Featherweight Championship from George Dixon on January 9, 1900, by scoring a technical knockout in the eighth round. As a featherweight, McGovern was involved in some controversial bouts. For example he is credited with knocking out Aurelio Herrera in defense of his crown in 5 rounds. Herrera afterwards claimed he had been doped during the fight. McGovern is also credited with scoring a 2 round knockout over Joe Gans. Gans claimed that he threw the fight. He is the only know film clip of McGovern against Gans.
McGovern lost his crown when he was stopped by Young Corbett II in 2 rounds on November 28, 1901. Corbett also won their rematch.
McGovern finished his career with a record of 65 wins (42 KOs) 5 losses and 5 draws. As was common in that era, he also engaged in many No Decision bouts. In 2003, McGovern was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. McGovern is credited as the greatest featherweight of all time.
McGovern spent much of his later life in mental institutions. He died of pneumonia and kidney ailment in the charity ward of King's County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA, on February 22, 1918.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Johnstown HOCKEYVILLE!
Today it's all about Johnstown Hockeyville! We got there early and waited a little over an hour to get in and by the end - the whole place was ROCKIN and I mean ROCKIN to the rafters!
We had pretty good seats.
Along with free food - they even had a band - they were great!
Back end of the arena and more of the crowd coming in.
The floor beginning to get packed.
They put the hockey game on.
Live shot with us at the arena on the big screen.
Back to the hockey game with only a couple of minutes to go....so to help you folks that weren't there - get in the same spirit we felt - enjoy the next set of videos. I broke them down into pieces to give you a better feel for how it all went down.
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