Coffey Club 1918-19

1918-1919

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Coffey Club 1918-19
  • Title
  • Coffey Club 1918-19
  • Date
  • 1918-1919
  • Identifier
  • MSP0308_B001_F06_I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP0308_B001_F06_I03
  • Description
  • Team photograph of the 1918-19 Coffey Club. The Coffey Club, founded in 1910 to promote "clean living and clean thinking," sponsored basketball and baseball teams for young Jewish men. The Coffey Club basketball team drew large crowds to their competitions and events and was a leading independent team in Pittsburgh’s basketball scene. Identified are the following: Row 1, Saul Adler and Isaac Bloom; Row 2, Morris Marks, Ted Marks, Louis Meyers, Isadore Amdursky, Meyer Gefsky, and Goodman Rosenshine.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Sports--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
    Basketball teams--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
    Jewish athletes--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Photographs, 1911-1993, MSP 308, Rauh Jewish Archives, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania Photographs
  • Rights Information
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