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Re: (rshsdepot) Passenger car from Staten island to B&O connection for Philly; addendum to long time ago topic
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From: "Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
To: "RSHS Depot" <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:55 AM
Subject: (rshsdepot) Passenger car from Staten island to B&O connection for Philly; addendum to long time ago topic
: I was reading a book about Ken Strong, the All-American football player, a "triple-threat" All-American running back at New York
: University, dubbed the next Lou Gehrig until a minor league industry ended that career.
:
: When he first came to the NFL he played for the long forgotten Staten island Stapletons (the Stapes). This was a semi-pro football
: team that took over the Hartford Blues National Football League franchise in 1929. They never did so well in the NFL, lasting to
: 1932, the franchise skeleton becoming the Portsmouth Lions who a few years later became the Detroit Lions.
:
: Anyway, Stapleton is on Staten Island, just a little southwest (east on the SIRT) from St. George. In reading I came across a
story
: about how the Stapes would avoid having to take a ferry for the train to Philadelphia. They had a special Pullman car that they
: boarded in Stapleton, it would be carried over the bridge to Cranston, I think it was Elizabeth, it read, where the car was
switched
: to a waiting B & O train to Philadelphia to play the Frankford Yellow Jackets. So this is a late example of through passenger
: traffic, albeit private, from Staten island onto the mainland.
: The return trip was less privileged, they had to take a ferry just like anyone else.
:
: Ken Strong went to the New York Giants after the Stapes folded, the MVP of the "Sneaker Game" NFL Championship in 1934, he would
: become one of the first NFL players to jump to another league, playing for the Brooklyn Tigers in the second A.F.L. in the
: mid-thirties. Banned after that league folded by the NFL he played semi-pro ball, touring with a tea of All-Stars, by 1940 playing
: on the Long island Clippers in the minor league American Association, playing for the New York Americans of the third A.F.L. in
: early 1940s. later back on the New York Giants he served as the first kicking specialist in football, directly helping to lead
: football out of the restrictive substitution rules of the day. When he retired at a record age at the time, he had set the NFL
: scoring record. Yes sports did exist before TV. Ken Strong is in both the college and professional Hall of Fames...
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End of RSHSDepot Digest V1 #1039
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