Ashton Cobb Brings Natural Talents to Fruition in Center High School, Earning Scholarship to University of Kentucky .Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, hometown of Ashton Cobb of National Football League free agency, rose originally from a station along the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad route named Seneca Queen Aliquippa, an Indian name, in 1878. By 1905 the successful Jones and Laughlin Steel Company steel mill was situated on the Ohio River at Aliquippa. Since the closing of the mill in the 80’s, Aliquippa’s population has been in decline, suffering from the loss of economic opportunity which it had formerly enjoyed.

Nonetheless, Ashton Cobb’s triumphant football career in Monaca, Pennsylvania of the United States, playing for Center High School placed him in excellent company to aspire to a National Football League career. Such NFL notables as Jonathan Baldwin, Tommie Campbell, famed Pro Football Hall of Fame player and coach Mike Ditka, Pro Football Hall of Fame player Tony Dorsett, Sean Gilbert, Canadian Football player and coach Frank Gnup, Frank Hribar, Ty Law, and Darrelle Revis, as well as Basketball Hall of Famer Pete Maravich, basketball coach Press Maravich, and pitcher Doc Medich and Pete Suder of Major League Baseball all hail from Aliquippa and its environs. Cobb would have been inspired by this overabundance of National League talent originating from his small town and from the Aliquippa School District.

Ashton Cobb joined the Big Blue Nation, the moniker of the fans of the Kentucky Wildcats, on a full ride football scholarship when he graduated high school and chose to attend the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky in the United States. All men’s and women’s intercollegiate athletic teams at UK adopted the Wildcat mascot name in 1995, but the name became the identifying appellation of UK sports after a 6-2 football victory over Illinois in 1909. Head of the military department at the old State University Commandant Philip Corbusier told the assembled students at chapel that the Kentucky football team had fought like Wildcats. Vivid royal blue and white are intrinsically identified by all as the team colors for the Wildcats, worn by football squad members like full ride scholarship recipient Ashton Cobb for over a hundred years, starting in 1894.

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