[1][2][3] The Pittsburgh South Side basketball team was formed in 1899.
Its first members were Bradley, Leithead, Liebau, O'Donnell, Schmidt, Stamm, and Windeknecht.
[1] The Pittsburgh South Side twice defeated the Buffalo Germans, whose members once claimed that they had never lost a series to any team.
The South Side team made national headlines when it made Harry Hough the highest-paid basketball player in the world on December 31, 1907.
Joseph "Joe" Meech Leithead (born July 17, 1882; died July 2, 1958)[4] played and served as coach and captain of the Pittsburgh South Side team from 1899 through 1907.