Mount Union borough
"At no time were the Bricktowners dangerous", 1927
Mount Union's nickname was not something the town only called itself. In the winter of 1927 the Democratic Watchman of Bellefonte, eighty miles away in Centre county, reported two Mountain League basketball games against Mount Union High and both times called the visitors the Bricktowners, without explaining it to anybody. The passages below are printed exactly as the pages read, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. Nothing has been rewritten, summarised or added to.
28 January 1927. "From the opening whistle the red and white tossers took the lead and held supremacy throughout the forty minutes of play. At no time were the Bricktowners dangerous. When the first session terminated, the score stood 28-6." — 11 March 1927. "Bellefonte High passers successfully invaded Mount Union, last Friday evening, and returned home with a 49-28 triumph neatly tucked away. The Bricktowners proved easy for coach Riden's aggregation and at no time proved dangerous."Democratic Watchman (Bellefonte), 28 January and 11 March 1927, both p. 8 · character 0 of the scanned text
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Checked 2026-09-01 · Mined from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive
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