|
Wheeling Ironmen
The Wheeling Ironmen were a professional American football team based in Wheeling, West Virginia, and played their home games at Wheeling Island Stadium. The team began play in 1962 as a member of the United Football League, where they played for three seasons until that league dissolved. The Ironmen won the UFL championship during their first two seasons in the league. Wheeling became a charter member of the new Continental Football League in 1965, along with four other former UFL teams. Financial difficulties prompted the team to file for bankruptcy in April 1968, and also vote to give up their COFL franchise. Later that month the team announced they would in fact stay in the league, and hold a fundraising drive. Prior to the start of the 1968 COFL season the team changed their name to the Ohio Valley Ironmen. On December 15, 1969 the COFL revoked the Ironmen's franchise for failure to meet the league's financial obligations; the league itself collapsed a few months later. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is a city in Ohio County, West Virginia, Ohio and Marshall County, West Virginia, Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The county seat of Ohio County, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains within Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, the state's Northern Panhandle. It is the List of municipalities in West Virginia, fifth-most populous city in West Virginia and the most populous city in the Northern Panhandle with a population of 27,062 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Wheeling metropolitan area had 139,513 residents in 2020. Wheeling is located about west of Pittsburgh and east of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus via Interstate 70 in West Virginia, Interstate 70. Wheeling was settled in 1769 on land contested between colonial Province of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Colony of Virginia, Virginia, and later grew to become Virginia's largest city west of the Appalachians. During the American Civil War, Whee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeling Island Stadium
Wheeling Island Stadium is a stadium used mostly for American football and soccer located on Wheeling Island in Wheeling, West Virginia. The original portion of the stadium was dedicated on June 10, 1927, but a large concrete seating section was added in 1987. The stadium seats 12,220 in two stands along either sidelines, the end zones are empty. Wheeling Island Stadium usually hosts high school football and soccer events but can host concerts, hosting Styx and REO Speedwagon most recently in 2009. President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at the stadium on September 27, 1962. The stadium is owned and operated by Wheeling Park High School. The stadium is also the home of the "Super Six." Each year Wheeling Island plays host to the West Virginia State Football Championships for Class A, AA, AAA. The stadium is considered one of the best high school stadiums in West Virginia, mainly due to capacity and layout of the facility. There is plenty of parking adjacent to the stadium, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Football League (1961–1964)
The United Football League was a professional American football minor league that operated between 1961 and 1964. It had eight teams, primarily based in the Midwestern United States. The league was founded in 1961 as a minor league alternative to the National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a Professional gridiron football, professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National ... (NFL) and American Football League (AFL). Based in the Midwest, it drew many of its players from the Big Ten college conference. Among its more notable feats, it became the first football league to operate teams in both the United States and Canada when it launched the Quebec Rifles in 1964, and it revived the names of the Cleveland/ Canton Bulldogs and Akron Pros, two early-era NFL teams. After the league folded following the 1964 season, the more amb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continental Football League
The Continental Football League (COFL) was a professional American football Minor league football (gridiron), minor league that operated in North America from 1965 through 1969. It was established following the collapse of the original United Football League (1961–1964), United Football League, and hoped to become the major force in professional football outside the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL). It owed its name, at least in part, to the Continental League, a proposed third Major League Baseball organization that influenced MLB significantly, although never played a game. Four Continental Football League contributors are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the most of any league not considered a major league: coach Bill Walsh (American football coach), Bill Walsh, quarterbacks Ken Stabler, Doak Walker and Steve Van Buren (the last two were inducted as players but were coaches in this league). Sam Wyche, Bob Kuechenberg, Garo Yepremian and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at each end. The offense (sports), offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped Ball (gridiron football), football, attempts to advance down the field by Rush (gridiron football), running with the ball or Forward pass#Gridiron football, throwing it, while the Defense (sports), defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance the ball at least ten yard, yards in four Down (gridiron football), downs or plays; if they fail, they turnover on downs, turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the Glossary of American football#drive, drive. Points are scored primarily b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit organization, not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used ''AP Stylebook'', its AP polls tracking National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA sports, sponsoring the National Football League's annual awards, and its election polls and results during Elections in the United States, US elections. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters. The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Football Alliance
The International Football Alliance (IFA) is a semi-professional, outdoor, 11-man American football summer Minor league football (gridiron), minor league that operates internationally in both Mexico and the United States. The IFA's inaugural season began play in 2025; initially intending to have six teams, the four teams that have played at least one game in the inaugural season are playing under independent schedules. As of June 2025, the IFA has only 2 active teams: Huntsville, which was hastily formed following the departure of the Alabama Beavers and retained the much of the same coaching staff and players; and Ohio Valley, which merely claims to be “affiliated” with the IFA. Premise The IFA's aim is to "deliver the highest level of American football," and "build a unified and solid American football ecosystem in Mexico," while the league mission statement reads: "The International Football Alliance mission is bridging the gap in international professional football by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manny Matsakis
Emmanouel M. Matsakis (born April 16, 1962) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently head coach of the Ohio Valley Ironmen, a minor league football team. Matsakis has also served as the head football coach at Emporia State University from 1995 to 1998, at Texas State University in 2003, at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas from 2013 to 2014, and at Defiance College from 2018 to 2020. Playing career Matsakis is a 1984 graduate of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where he was a four-year letter winner and a three-time First Team All-Ohio Athletic Conference selection as a kicker. He still currently holds the school record for longest field goal, a 54-yarder in 1981. He played for the Indianapolis Colts during the 1987 NFL season in which the league used replacement players due to a strike. Coaching career Emporia State Matsakis was the 19th head football coach for Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas and he held that position for four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football Teams In West Virginia
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continental Football League Teams
Continental may refer to: Places * Continental, Arizona, a small community in Pima County, Arizona, US * Continental, Ohio, a small town in Putnam County, US Arts and entertainment * ''Continental'' (album), an album by Saint Etienne * Continental (card game), a rummy-style card game * ''Continental'' (film), a 2013 film * Continental Singers, a Christian music organization Companies * ContiGroup Companies or Continental Grain * Continental AG, a German automotive parts and technologies manufacturer * Continental Airlines, a former American airline * Continental Electronics, an American radio transmitter manufacturer * Continental Films, a German-controlled French film company during the Nazi occupation of France * Continental Illinois, a defunct large bank * Continental Mortgage and Loan Company (later known as Continental, Inc.), the former name of HomeStreet Bank * Continental Motors, Inc., a Chinese manufacturer of aircraft engines * Continental Oil Company, the orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports In Wheeling, West Virginia
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Football League (1961–1964) Teams
United Football League may refer to: *United Football League (Philippines), an association football league in the Philippines *United Football League (1961–1964), an American football league which operated from 1961 to 1964 *United Football League (2009–2012), an American football league which operated from 2009 to 2012 *United Football League (2024), an American football league which started play in 2024 See also *United League (football), a British association football league *United Indoor Football League *United States Football League * *United League (other) United League may refer: Sports *United League Baseball, an independent baseball league, founded in 2006, which operates in Texas *United Baseball League (proposed), a planned third North American baseball major league that folded without playing a ... * UFL (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
