by Greg Nichols For reasons that had nothing to do with Eisenhower, Taft-Hartley, or the Supreme Court, the air above Braddock was electric on November 6, 1959. It was game day, and the Tigers were playing their biggest rivals, neighboring…
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The Final Outcome: Braddock Tigers Football and the Strike of 1959
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Posted in Contemporary History, Sports History
Posted in Contemporary History, Sports History
The Legend of the Braddock Tigers
by Greg Nichols Big Bertha, a massive driving sled, haunted the Tigers’ dreams. It was rare for high school football teams to use sleds in the late 1950s, and rarer to see anything larger than a two-man version. Big Bertha…
Tagged with: braddock, chuck klausing, edgar thomson works, eisenhower, football, greg nichols, monongahela river, pennsylvania, steeltown, strike, striking gridiron
Posted in Contemporary History, Sports History
by Greg Nichols Big Bertha, a massive driving sled, haunted the Tigers’ dreams. It was rare for high school football teams to use sleds in the late 1950s, and rarer to see anything larger than a two-man version. Big Bertha…
Posted in Contemporary History, Sports History
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