After his father died, Gottschalk helped support the family by playing semipro football.

Dean moved on to play semipro football for the Oklahoma City Strike Force, the first of many stops in a vagabond career.

At least it is rarely this way on the playing field, where Robert Walsh, in the unsung world of semipro football, nearly always gets his way.

Came autumn and rent bills and Farrell found work playing semipro football.

After that, I took up semipro football.

He retired to Nevada, played semipro football and became a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas.

"I went years without knowing about semipro football until my buddy told me about it," he said as he stood on the sideline.

McGill, who works as an engineer for Amtrak, said: "Once you get into semipro football, it's all about business.

Chris Mongeau was ineligible for college play because he had played a year of semipro football and had signed with an agent.

Fighting is not part of semipro football as practiced in the United Football League.