Captain Jack Creasy and the PHS Varsity Football Team of 1921
This file appears in: Stanton and McMahon's Smoke House
This team portrait captured Jack Creasy (holding the ball) as captain of the PHS Varsity Football Team of 1921. Voted 'Most Popular' by his classmates, Creasy stood out as a leader among his pears.
This file appears in: Stanton and McMahon's Smoke House
Stanton and McMahon's Smoke House
As early as 1912, Frank Stanton and George McMahon, co-owners of the Smoke House (a popular Portsmouth tobacco shop), had sponsored an amateur football team that traveled the Ohio-Kentucky-West Virginia Tri-State region, playing its home games at…