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  1. Oct 13, 2022 · October 13, 2022. FBI records and interviews show from the 1920s through the 1940s, Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. emerged as perhaps Pittsburgh’s best known ‘sportsman’ while secretly...

  2. Jul 7, 2017 · Rooney, Art Sr. Biography. Art Rooney Sr. was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 1965. Rooney was also an inaugural member of the Steelers Hall of Honor as a member of the Class of 2017. He wasn't the first in the Steelers organization to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and that is just how ...

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  4. Oct 16, 2022 · Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Post-Gazette archive Art Rooney Sr. in 1939 when he was best known as the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates/ Steelers but was also secretly a leading figure in the city’s racket operations, according to FBI documents.

  5. Oct 16, 2022 · FBI documents and interviews with people who worked with Art Rooney Sr. show that one of the first racket operations that he was involved in was the simplest: the numbers, an illegal private lottery that flourished in the decades before Pennsylvan­ia began running its own lottery.

  6. Jan 27, 2024 · Published. 3 months ago. on. January 27, 2024. By. Alan Saunders. COULTER, Pa. — Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney, Sr. aka “The Chief” was born on Jan. 27, 1901 in Coulter, Pennsylvania, a small town south of McKeesport on the east bank of the Youghoigheny River, about 15 miles from Pittsburgh.

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  7. Jan 27, 2022 · on. January 27, 2022. By. Dominic Campbell. The Pittsburgh Steelers are celebrating the 121st birthday of Art Rooney Sr. today, the founder of the team. Art. Rooney Sr., also known as “The Chief,” was born Jan. 27, 1901 in Coulterville, Pa. and moved to the North Side of the Pittsburgh in 1913 with his family.

  8. Jan 3, 2014 · Art Rooney, Sr. was a story teller, always sharing an anecdote with those who crossed his path, always having a good story to tell about his life, from his days growing up on Pittsburgh's North Side, to his boxing career, to purchasing the Pittsburgh Steelers and seeing them grow into four-time Super Bowl champions.

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