Paul Steinberg, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Paul Steinberg

American football player

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1880

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1964

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Paul Steinberg

  • Jacob Paul "Twister" Steinberg (June 4, 1880 – February 1964) was a professional football player in the early 1900s.
  • As a member of the first National Football League, he played with the Philadelphia Athletics in the first professional night game in history.
  • He also won the first, and only, two series of the first World Series of Football with the Syracuse Athletic Club and the Franklin Athletic Club.
  • Steinberg was also the first Jewish professional basketball player.
  • Harry March, dubbed the "Father of Pro Football", referred to Steinberg as, "one of the most elusive, fastest, slickest, shrewdest, and clean backs of the century."

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