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Philadelphia Arena

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The Philadelphia Arena was an auditorium used mainly for sporting events located at 46th and Market Streets in West Philadelphia. [1]

55 relations: America First Committee, American Bandstand, American Hockey League, Basketball Association of America, Billy Sunday, Boxing, Canadian–American Hockey League, Cazzie Russell, Charles Lindbergh, Continental Basketball Association, Cow Palace, Duquesne Gardens, Eastern Hockey League, Gene Tunney, George Franklin Pawling, Golden State Warriors, Hal Greer, Joe Frazier, Jules Mastbaum, Lancaster Red Roses (basketball), Lew Tendler, Madison Square Garden, Martin Luther King Jr., National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, National Wrestling Alliance, Oncenter War Memorial Arena, Peter A. Tyrrell, Philadelphia, Philadelphia 76ers, Philadelphia Arrows, Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center, Philadelphia Quakers (NHL), Philadelphia Ramblers, Philadelphia Ramblers (EHL), Philadelphia Rockets, Primo Carnera, Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey, Rodeo, Roller derby, Roller Games, Roy Rogers, Sonja Henie, Spectrum (arena), Stan Stasiak, Sugar Ray Robinson, Syracuse, New York, Triangle Publications, University of Pennsylvania, WFIL, ..., Winter Olympic Games, WPVI-TV, Wrestling, WWE, Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey. Expand index (5 more) »

America First Committee

The America First Committee (AFC) was the foremost United States non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II.

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American Bandstand

American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer.

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American Hockey League

The American Hockey League (AHL) is a 31-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Basketball Association of America

The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946.

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Billy Sunday

William Ashley Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Canadian–American Hockey League

The Canadian–American Hockey League, popularly known as the Can-Am League, was a professional ice hockey league that operated from 1926 to 1936.

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Cazzie Russell

Cazzie Lee Russell (born June 7, 1944) is an American former professional basketball player and coach.

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist.

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Continental Basketball Association

The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) was a professional men's basketball minor league in the United States.

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Cow Palace

Cow Palace (originally the California State Livestock Pavilion) is an indoor arena located in Daly City, California, situated on the city's northern border with neighboring San Francisco.

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Duquesne Gardens

The Duquesne Gardens was the main sports arena located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the first half of the 20th century.

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Eastern Hockey League

The Eastern Hockey League was a minor professional United States ice hockey league.

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Gene Tunney

James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1915 to 1928.

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George Franklin Pawling

George Franklin Pawling (April 16, 1879 - December 2, 1954), was President of the Amateur Athletic Union in the 1910s and the builder of the Philadelphia Arena in the 1920s.

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Golden State Warriors

The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in the San Francisco Bay Area in Oakland, California.

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Hal Greer

Harold Everett Greer (June 26, 1936 – April 14, 2018) was an American professional basketball player.

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Joe Frazier

Joseph William Frazier (January 12, 1944 – November 7, 2011), nicknamed "Smokin' Joe", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981.

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Jules Mastbaum

Jules Ephraim Mastbaum (July 7, 1872 – December 8, 1926) was a Philadelphia movie theater magnate and philanthropist.

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Lancaster Red Roses (basketball)

The Lancaster Red Roses were a professional basketball team based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Lew Tendler

"Lefty" Lew Tendler (September 28, 1898, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 5, 1970, in Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American boxer.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often called "MSG" or simply "The Garden", is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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National Wrestling Alliance

The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is an American professional wrestling organization.

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Oncenter War Memorial Arena

The War Memorial Arena (originally known as Onondaga County War Memorial) is a multi-purpose arena located in Syracuse, New York.

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Peter A. Tyrrell

Peter A. Tyrrell (April 8, 1896 – May 8, 1973) was an entertainment entrepreneur in Philadelphia, most prominently associated with the Philadelphia Arena.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia 76ers

The Philadelphia 76ers (also commonly known as the Sixers) are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

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Philadelphia Arrows

The Philadelphia Arrows were a professional ice hockey team that played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center

The Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center—more commonly known as the Philadelphia Civic Center and the Philadelphia Convention Center, and formerly known as Municipal Auditorium and the Philadelphia Convention Hall—located in Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, was a complex of five or more buildings developed out of a series of buildings dedicated to expanding trade which began with the National Export Exhibition in 1899.

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Philadelphia Quakers (NHL)

The Philadelphia Quakers were an American professional ice hockey team that played only one full season in the National Hockey League (NHL), 1930–31, at the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia Ramblers

The Philadelphia Ramblers were a minor professional ice hockey team based in the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia Ramblers (EHL)

The Philadelphia Ramblers were a minor professional ice hockey team based in the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia Rockets

The Philadelphia Rockets were a minor professional ice hockey team based in the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Primo Carnera

Primo Carnera (October 26, 1906 – June 29, 1967), nicknamed the Ambling Alp, was an Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 29, 1933, to June 14, 1934.

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Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey

The Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college ice hockey program that represents Princeton University.

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Rodeo

Rodeo is a competitive sport that arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later Central America, South America, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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Roller derby

Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating counter-clockwise around a track.

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Roller Games

Roller Games was the name of a sports entertainment spectacle created in the early 1960s in Los Angeles, California — This source is detailed but not neutral; better sources are needed for all of its claims.

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Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye, November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Sonja Henie

Sonja Henie (8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star.

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Spectrum (arena)

The Spectrum (later known as CoreStates Spectrum, First Union Spectrum and Wachovia Spectrum) was an indoor arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Stan Stasiak

George Emile Stipich (April 13, 1937 - June 19, 1997) was a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Stan Stasiak.

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Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith Jr.; May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965.

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Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, in the United States.

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Triangle Publications

Triangle Publications Inc. was an American media group based first in Philadelphia, and later in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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WFIL

WFIL (560 AM) is an AM radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, owned by Salem Media Group and broadcasting with a Christian radio format consisting of teaching and talk programs.

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Winter Olympic Games

The Winter Olympic Games (Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international sporting event held once every four years for sports practised on snow and ice.

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WPVI-TV

WPVI-TV, branded as 6 ABC, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Wrestling

Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds.

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WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a WWE, is an American integrated media and entertainment company that primarily is known for professional wrestling.

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Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey

The Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey team represents Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and is the oldest collegiate ice hockey team in the United States.

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Martin Luther King Arena (Philadelphia), Philadelphia Ice Palace and Auditorium.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Arena

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