However a purchasing scandal forced him from his position in 1931, which soon developed to a jury indictment of Schooley on embezzlement and misdemeanor charges.

However the Pittsburgh Press reported on January 5, 1908, that he resigned from his officiating duties, because he could not arrange to with his employers to get away two nights of the week at referee games.

[1] After his career in politics, Schooley founded the Pittsburgh's amateur hockey team, the Yellow Jackets in 1915, and became the manager of the Duquesne Gardens.

In late October, 1920, the United States Amateur Hockey Association was formed, with Yellow Jackets officials Schooley and William S. Haddock serving as co-founders and respectively acting as the league's secretary-treasurer and president.

[6] According to former sports reporter Paul Sullivan, who covered hockey for much of his life for the Pittsburgh Gazette Times, the USAHA was not a completely amateur league.

Sullivan noted that even though the USAHA was called an amateur league, "They didn't come down from Canada because they thought Pittsburgh was a nice place."

In 1923, Schooley had invited Lionel Conacher, a future Hall of Famer, to come and ref in Pittsburgh in February 1923, "to see if the crowd would take to him".

Schooley then asked Conacher to play with the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets in a four-game series against his former teammates, and the Toronto Aura Lee hockey team, and against the Hamilton Tigers.

After seeing how well the fans took to Conacher, Schooley made him the team's captain, and asked him to invite a number of his friends to play for the Yellow Jackets.

The Yellow Jackets stopped playing when the United States Amateur Hockey Association folded at the end of the 1924–25 season.

In the fall of 1925, the former Yellow Jackets players entered the National Hockey League as an expansion team named the Pittsburgh Pirates.

After five seasons in Pittsburgh, the Pirates left the city and became the short-lived Philadelphia Quakers, due to issues related to the Great Depression and the failure to find a replacement for the aging Duquesne Gardens.

Shortly afterwards, Schooley along with partners James Callahan and Horace Townsend created a second iteration of the Yellow Jackets by taking over the Niagara Falls franchise in the International Hockey League and transferring it to Pittsburgh.

Three days before the team was to depart for Antwerp to begin Olympic play, the New York Post reported that Schooley had resigned as manager amid rumors of unspecified friction, which he denied.

However, after a series of newspaper attacks against the Armstrong Administration, Schooley was transferred to the position of city clerk in charge of the Pittsburgh public works division.

In 1926, he helped elect John S. Fisher, Governor of Pennsylvania as well as assist Charles H. Kline in getting re-elected mayor of Pittsburgh.