Last Team Standing: How the Steelers and the Eagles-- the Steagles-- Saved Pro Football During World War II [Book]

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Tracing the history of the National Football League during World War II, this book delves into the severe player shortage during the war which led to the merging of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, creating the "Steagles." The team's center was deaf in one ear, its wide receiver was blind in one eye (and partially blind in the other), and its halfback had bleeding ulcers. One player was so old he'd never before played football with a helmet.

Fly Steagles Fly - by Eric Nusbaum - Sports Stories

From small town Nebraska to the NFL

Steelers And Eagles

Remembering the Steagles, Pennsylvania's wartime NFL team - CBS Pittsburgh

The true story of the NFL's oldest rookie In 1976, Vince Papale was thirty, a former schoolteacher and part-time bartender, and a season ticket-holder for his beloved Philadelphia Eagles. When he heard that Coach Dick Vermeil was holding open tryouts, he decided to give it a shot. Shocking himself and the coaches, he ran an explosive 40-yard-dash in just 4.5 seconds--a world-class time--and was offered a contract on the spot.