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The first professional football player
In December 20, 1867 his born and in April 2, 1954 he is died and between this years this is story for the frist professional football player
On November 12, 1892, William "Pudge" Heffelfinger day that he is would forever be etched in sports history becomes the first professional football player
when Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Athletic Association paid to him $500 to play as a ringer in a game against its rival Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
For his part, Heffelfinger never recognize that he’d taken the payment. He went on to become a prominent insurance executive and congressman from Minnesota.
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Before Heffelfinger, players had traded their services on the field for expense money, or trinkets that players could pawn back to the team--but no one had ever openly accepted a cash payment to play football
The spot is noteworthy by a historic marker.Although the payment for Heffelfinger's play was not published his presence set off quite a debate as Pittsburgh A.C. protested the presence of Heffelfinger and several other Chicago Athletic Association players in their line-up. Allegheny retaliated with the fact that Pittsburgh had imported players as well. The game ended in a 4–0 Allgheny win. Heffelfinger scored the game's only touchdown on a recovered fumble.
Pudge Heffelfinger, who’d been a star at Yale and was presently on leave from his job in an Omaha railway office to play in exchange for "expenses, for the fabled Chicago Athletic Association team. The PAC offered Heffelfinger and his teammate Knowlton "Snake" Ames $250 apiece to play for their team. At the end of October, the Pittsburgh Press helpfully lithograph an account of these negotiations; shortly afterward, the AAA contacted Heffelfinger and offered to paired his pay if he’d play for their team instead. He agreed, but didn’t tell the PAC officials about it--and, consequently
The AAA and PAC football teams
bitter rivals and sworn enemies, had played one another the month before. In that game, the star of the PAC team had been a mysterious young man who called himself "Stayer." Team officials swore he was just a neighborhood kid who’d never played football before, but he turned out to be A.C. Read, the captain of the Penn State team
The PAC team was angry, as were its fans; the AAA was uppish , and its fans were delighted. The PACers stormed off the field and refused to play until AAA agreed that the game wouldn’t count. For good measure, all bets were off -which appeased the PAC’s partisans but infuriated the people who’d were hoping to get rich on Heffelfinger’s team.Pudge turned out to be worth his paycheck: He scored the only touchdown of the game and the AAA team won in a shutout.
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