Jacques (Jack) Creasy, organizer and manager of the Portsmouth Shoe-Steels
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Jack Creasy graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1922, having played four years of varsity football. He led the team as captain during his senior year and later played semi-professional football with the Portsmouth Smoke House and the Presidents. In 1927, at the age of 25, Creasy purchased the equipment of the defunct Presidents and organized the Portsmouth Shoe-Steels, signing Jim Thorpe as player-coach of the city's first truly professional football team.
This file appears in: Jim Thorpe and the Shoe-Steels: Portsmouth, Ohio's First Professional Football Team
Jim Thorpe and the Shoe-Steels: Portsmouth, Ohio's First Professional Football Team
In Portsmouth, Ohio, the birth of professional football involved one of America’s greatest athletes of all time — Jim Thorpe — and one of the city’s most forgotten civic leaders — Jack Creasy. Jim…