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VIDEO ABOUT THE 1925 POTTSVILLE MAROONS
When the Maroons were to meet the Cardinals at Chicago in 1925, it was advertised as the game which would decide the title. Then when the game was over and Pottville had won, the Maroons were hailed as champions in all the newspapers everywhere. It was a week later, in an exhibition game, that the trouble arose and its unfairness should be apparent to all people.
What happened had nothing to do with any game played between National League teams. The Maroons, as recognized champions, were invited to play a game at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, against the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame; and this game was advertised for the "World Championship." The outcome of that game is immaterial, though Pottsville won, 9-7.
What happened is this: The Frankford Yellowjackets, Philadelphia's entry in the league, insisted that playing at Shibe Park (now Connie Mack Stadium) was an invasion of their territorial rights. In other words, that they and not the Maroons should have met the Four Horsemen there, even though the Pottsville team was recognized as champions and the Jackets as all the rest of the nation knew for a week in advance that Pottsville had been selected - No Protest was made PRIOR to this game.
Strange as it may seem the President of the League, Joe Carr, upheld the unsportsmanlike contention and ruled that the offense should call for loss of the championship.
Now the point of the whole thing was that the farfetched charge about invasion of territory, late in the season when most of the teams disbanded, had nothing to do with an exhibition game, the first between a professional champion and college all stars which should have been honored as such. It called for commendation not loss of a championship. If there was any offense, it called for a fine against the club, not against the players who won fairly, on the field of play.
And now we come to the part which was more outrageously unfair than all the rest and which is hard for a later generation to understand. Mr. Carr could not take the championship away by forfeiting a game, because there was no game to forfeit. If he merely had proclaimed that Pottsville had finished on top but had violated territorial rights in an exhibition game, thereby invoking a fine, it would have been all right. But the standing, earned on the field of play, should have stood.
So, what could Mr. Carr do? He had to change the final standings and the only way he could do so was to give victories to the nearest competitor, which happened to be the Cardinals, the team Pottsville had defeated in a game which had been advertised for the title, and the only (way) he could do that was to force that club to play extra games against other league members- late in December, with snow on the ground. He then ordered the Cardinals to meet either Milwaukee or Hammond, or perhaps both; clubs which had disbanded for the season and were without their real players. And all of that came after Pottsville had been heralded as champion by all the newspapers in the country.
And so the motions were gone through. The Cardinals were obligated to play against the team or teams referred to (whether one or two is immaterial) just anything to produce enough games in the win column to put the Cardinals on top. The other team was patched up and said to have contained anybody who could have assembled to make an eleven, even as to recent high school boys. It was a farce, which hardly anybody went to see and which the newspapers of Chicago paid no attention to. Just anything to have an excuse for getting something in the records. The Cardinal manager himself, Chris O'Neil said that he did not want a championship which he had not won on the field of play, but which was forced on him. Chicago newspapers, which had proclaimed Maroons as champions decided the farcial make-up games and would have nothing to do with the buildup of a synthetic champion.
So there is a precious rating to the Cardinals in 1925. That is why Pottsville does not show at the top of the records, but in the runner-up position. A new generation has forgotten the inside facts of the situation. And newspapers such as the New York Times, which have published records, do not know the outrageous way in which the stolen record got there. And new officers of the National League know nothing about it.
That one line which Joe Carr caused to be inserted in the records has outweighed all the truth which has been written on the subject. It constitutes the stolen championship.
We sincerely hope this truthful information reaches the proper sources and that the records be corrected to the credit of honesty and fair play.
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Pottsville Maroons - 10 - 2 - 0 - .833
Chicago Cardinals - 9 - 2 - 1
Detroit Panthers - 8 - 2 - 0 - .800
New York Giants - 8 - 4 - 0 - .667
Akron Pros - 4 - 2 - 2 - .667
Frankford Yellow Jackets - 13 - 7 - 0 - .650
Chicago Bears - 9 - 5 - 3 - .643
Rock Island Independents - 4 - 4 - 3 - .500
Green Bay Packers - 8 - 5 - .615
Providence Steam Rollers - 6 - 5 - 1 - .545
Canton Bulldogs - 3 - 5 - 0 - .375
Cleveland Indians - 4 - 9 - 1 - .308
Duluth Eskimos - 2 - 5 - 1 - .286
Dayton Triangles - 0 - 7 - 1 - .222
Flint Central Indians - 1 - 6 - 2 - .143
Brooklyn Dodgers - 0 - 6 - 1 - .000
.. THE 1925 POTTSVILLE MAROONS STARTING ROSTER ..
DICK RAUCH - HEAD COACH - PENN STATE
CLARENCE BECK - TACKLE/DEFENSIVE LINEMAN - PENN STATE
CHARLIE BERRY - END/KICKER - LAFAYETTE
FRANK BUCHER - DEFENSIVE END - DETROIT MERCY
HARRY DAYHOFF - WIDEBACK/FULLBACK/TAILBACK - BUCKNELL
EDDIE DOYLE - DEFENSIVE END - ARMY
JACK ERNST - QUARTERBACK - LAFAYETTE
HOOT FLANAGAN - TAILBACK - WEST VIRGINIA, PITTSBURGH
WALTER FRENCH - WIDE RECEIVER - RUTGERS, ARMY
RUSS HATHAWAY - TACKLE/DEFENSIVE LINEMAN - INDIANA
DENNY HUGHES - CENTER - GEORGE WASHINGTON
TONY LATONE - FULLBACK - NO COLLEGE
FUNGY LEBENGOOD - WIDEBACK/PUNTER - VILLANOVA
ARMIN MAHRT - TAILBACK/DEFENSIVE END - DAYTON, WEST VIRGINIA
BOB MILLMAN - LINEBACKER - LAFAYETTE
DUKE OSBORN - GUARD/DEFENSIVE LINEMAN - PENN STATE
FRANKIE RACIS - TACKLE/END - NO COLLEGE
ED SAUER - TACKLE/DEFENSIVE LINEMAN - MIAMI OHIO
HERB STEIN - CENTER/DEFENSIVE LINEMAN - PITTSBURGH
RUSS STEIN - TACKLE/DEFENSIVE END - WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON
BARNEY WENTZ - FULLBACK/DEFENSIVE LINEMAN - PENN STATE
EDDIE GILLESPIE - TRAINER
DR. JOHN G. STRIEGEL - OWNER
1925 TEAM STATS
PASSING
JACK ERNST - 61 COM- 130 ATT - 714 YDS - 8 TDS - 13 INT
TEAM TOTAL - 76 COMP- 165 ATT- 890 YDS - 9 TDS - 15 INT
RUSHING
BARNEY WENTZ - 170 ATT - 656 YDS - 3.9 AVG. - 5 TDS
TONY LATONE - 150 ATT - 593 YDS - 4.0 AVG. - 7 TDS
HOOT FLANAGAN - 144 ATT - 525 YDS - 3.6 AVG. - 5 TDS
WALT FRENCH - 61 ATT - 349 YDS - 5.7 AVG. - 3 TDS
TEAM TOTAL - 592 ATT - 2390 - 4.0 AVG. - 23 TDS
RECEIVING
CHARLIE BERRY - 33 REC - 365 YDS - 11.1 AVG. - 4 TDS
FRANK BUCHER - 13 REC - 194 YDS - 14.9 AVG. - 2 TDS
EDDIE DOYLE - 6 REC - 81 YDS - 13.5 AVG. - 1 TDS
WALTER FRENCH - 4 REC - 90 YDS - 22.5 AVG. - 2 TDS
TEAM TOTAL - 76 REC - 890 YDS - 11.7 AVG - 9 TDS
PUNT RETURNS
JACK ERNST - 27 ATT - 370 YDS - 13.7 AVG. - 1 TDS
TEAM TOTAL - 38 ATT - 617 YDS - 16.2 AVG - 1 TDS
PUNTS
JACK ERNST - 61 ATT - 2164 YDS - 35.5 AVG - 0 BLOCKS
TEAM TOTAL - 71 ATT - 2512 YDS - 35.4 AVG - 0 BLOCKS
KICKING
CHARLIE BERRY - PAT - 29 MADE - 34 ATT - 85%
CHARLIE BERRY - FGS - 03 MADE - 09 ATT - 33.3%
TEAM TOTALS - PAT - 33 MADE - 37 ATT - 89.1%
TEAM TOTALS - FGS - 03 MADE - 09 ATT - 33.3%
INTERCEPTIONS
HOOT FLANGAN - 6 INT - 2 TDS
HERB STEIN - 4 INT - 0 TDS
CHARLIE BERRY - 3 INT - 0 TDS
TONY LATONE - 3 INT - 1 TDS
TEAM TOTAL - 26 INT - 3 TDS
OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE SCORING
OFFENSIVE POINTS SEASON - 270 - 22.5 AVG. PTS. PER GAME
OPPONENTS POINTS SEASON - 45 - 3.75 AVG. PTS. PER GAME
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