Jack Cusack was an American professional football manager in the Ohio League.
25 Facts About Jack Cusack
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Jack Cusack served as the manager and owner of the Canton Bulldogs from 1912 to 1918.
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Jack Cusack is responsible for helping revive the Bulldogs following the Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, which eroded public support for the game from 1906 until 1911.
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Jack Cusack ensured that the Bulldogs had a sturdy financial foundation for when they would later enter the National Football League.
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In 1918, Jack Cusack left football to enter the oil and gasoline business in Oklahoma.
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Jack Cusack later worked as an independent oil operator in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Jack Cusack developed a love for professional football during the early days of the Canton Bulldogs franchise, then headed up by Blondy Wallace.
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Kauffman and Jack Cusack escaped the bar, before the police showed up.
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In 1912 this time, at the age of 21, Jack Cusack became the team's secretary-treasurer, at no cost to the team, as a favor to Roscoe Oberlin.
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Jack Cusack later went behind Halter's back to sign a contract with Peggy Parrett's Akron Indians, concerning conditions for a match between the two squads, something Halter was unable to do.
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When Jack Cusack's actions were discovered by Halter, he tried to dispose of Jack Cusack's services through a team meeting.
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However, during the meeting the team sided Jack Cusack, after discovering that he had secured a 5-year lease on League Park for the Pros.
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The result was Halter being removed from the team, and Jack Cusack being named the team's new manager.
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Jack Cusack felt that the Pros had to live down the 1906 scandal and gain the public's confidence in the honesty of the game.
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Just before Canton's first game with the newly revived Massillon Tigers, Jack Cusack signing the Jim Thorpe, the Sac and Fox Indian from Oklahoma who was then rated as the world's greatest football player, and all-around athlete.
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Jack Cusack had Thorpe under contract to play for Canton for $250 a game.
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When professional football took a hiatus for World War I, Jack Cusack returned to the oil business in Oklahoma.
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Hay, who was a very good friend of both Thorpe and Jack Cusack, was acquainted with most of our 1916 and 1917 players, and therefore was in position to organize a team from that foundation.
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Jack Cusack decided to let Hay go ahead rather than withdraw from his oil operations, and so he transferred the lease on League Park to Hay.
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In 1921, Jack Cusack left Arkansas, after contracting malaria, for Canton.
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Jack Cusack hired Cusack to look after his personnel affairs as he felt that he was not receiving his full amount of gate money owed to him.
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Jack Cusack later found out that when Cleveland played in a baseball venue, the stadium personnel would take a larger cut for themselves and leave the rest for the players.
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Jack Cusack soon found himself collecting all of the monies due to every Tigers player.
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Jack Cusack soon became the manager for the Tigers for two games before quitting in 1922.
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Jack Cusack later became an independent oil operator living in Fort Worth, Texas.