GRIDIRON GLORY Penguin Style!
It could be Stambaugh Stadium’s best-kept secret: The Thomas F. Mosure Hall of Gridiron Glory, with its historic collection of Penguin football memorabilia. Located on the Ice Castle’s fourth level concourse, the museum was created to celebrate YSU’s gridiron history, with mementoes dating back to the 1930s and 1940s, and to permanently memorialize Mosure, a 1956 civil engineering grad and a standout Penguin halfback in the 1950s who continued to support YSU and Penguin sports throughout his life. The Hall of Gridiron Glory is open to fans on game days, and by appointment.
Game programs, at right, for an Oct. 6, 1939 Youngstown College football contest against St. Francis University were priced at just 15 cents. Games were played at South High School Stadium then. At far right, a football trophy the Curbstone Coaches presented Head Coach Dwight “Dike” Beede in 1960 to celebrate his 100th win.
Penguins quarterback Frank Beck wore the letterman sweater at left, when he played in the mid-1950s. Football shoes from the early 1960s, and a well-worn helmet, circa 1950s, below, are also part of the collection.
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