However both men needed to have a Pittsburgh-based team in their football league to add legitimacy to their league. So they contacted Berry who put together an all-star team of top players that were named the "Pittsburgh Stars". The Stars were owned by Berry on paper; however Barney Dreyfuss and William Chase Temple, owners of the Pittsburgh Pirates were rumoured to be funding the team. Meanwhile, Shibe and Rogers named their teams after their baseball counterparts. Berry was also named the league's president. In the league's only season, Berry's Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11-0 at the Pittsburgh Coliseum to win the league championship. The A's players decided to call the Stars game an exhibition, and declared themselves the champs. However, the team had agreed to that season-ending championship game against Pittsburgh the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day, and they had lost it. This was recognized by all parties at the time as the championship game. Each team carried a record of 2–2 for league play. Pittsburgh had by far the better point ratio, scoring 39 points to their opponents' 22. Both the Athletics and the Phillies gave up more points than they scored in their league games. Finally Berry used his power as league president and name his Stars the 1902 champions. Berry was a longtime newspaperman. He learned the business as a reporter for the daily "Greensburg Press", covering the city of Jeannette in the local news. He later conducted the "Latrobe Clipper" and founded two papers in Greensburg, the "Morning Star" and "Morning Review". Continuing his journalistic career in Uniontown, he purchased the weekly "Genius of Liberty" and daily "Evening Genius" and established the "Morning Herald". During the later years of his life he turned his attention to labor publications, editing the "National Labor Journal" of Pittsburgh and the "National Industrial Review" of San Francisco.