 In the league's only season the championship was awarded to All-Lancaster Red Roses over the Bethlehem Bears in a controversial move.In January 1926, James H. Gildea, the owner/manager of the Coaldale Big Green football club, began pushing his idea for a football league in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.Gildea's intention was to organize a circuit of teams that were well established and successful but unable to compete financially with the teams of the National Football League.