The Philadelphia Record
November 1, 1893

Wheelmen to Play Football

A game of football that will greatly interest local wheelmen will be played at Philadelphia Ball Bark on Saturday, November 18, between teams from the Century and Park Avenue Wheelmen. The game last year resulted in a tie, neither side scoring. The probable line-up is:

The Philadelphia Record
November 5, 1893

Bicycle Club Football Match.

To the local wheelmen the football contest between Century and Parkside Avenue will have even greater interest than than the contest yesterday between Princeton and Pennsylvania. Century, in football as in baseball and general athletics, and all other lines of sport, has felt itself the peer of the local cycling organizations. Last year the Park Avenue wheelmen gave them a battle royal at football, which showed that "Bunny's" boys were no small pumpkins at the game themselves, and were able to leave the field at the close of the contest with the proud satisfaction of having sent the Century men down the street practically defeated, as they had not been able to score against the yellow and black. Earlier this season both teams began to shape up for a repetition of the contest, and both sides were guilty of unsportsman-like conduct in trying to "ring in" crack college players to strengthen their respective sides. There was a wordy war over this state of affairs, which at one time threatened to cause the abandonment of the game. Matters have been straightened out, however, and the contest will take place on the Philadelphia Ball Grounds, Broad and Huntingdon streets. This game should be one of the most exciting witnessed here this season, and, as the members of the two clubs hate each others intensely, and are closely matched in weight and condition, those who delight in kicking, biting, gouging, head punching, hair-pulling and other beautiful points of this health-giving and life-destroying game are likely to get their full money's worth.