Pittsburgh Stealers
Encyclopedia
This page discusses the Pittsburgh Stealers semi-professional football team. For the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team see Steelers
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The Pittsburgh Stealers were a semi-professional
American football
team based at Western State Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
. The team was part of the Pittsburgh Semi-Pro Football League.
Steelers
Steelers usually refers to the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football team which plays in the National Football League. It may also refer to the following sports teams:Association football...
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The Pittsburgh Stealers were a semi-professional
Semi-professional
A semi-professional athlete is one who is paid to play and thus is not an amateur, but for whom sport is not a full-time occupation, generally because the level of pay is too low to make a reasonable living based solely upon that source, thus making the athlete not a full professional...
American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team based at Western State Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
. The team was part of the Pittsburgh Semi-Pro Football League.