Lot 66. 1900 and 1907 Football Cabinet Photos. The sepia 1907 photo, 7 ½” x 9”, is superb. It shows 13 players, many wearing union suits with reeded shin guards. Five players have nose guards, including a huge bat-wing model. The photo shows excellent focus and contrast. Except for a heavy crease in the lower right corner, it is free of easily noticeable blemishes. The mount is p with significant pieces missing. In the 1907 photo, which is also 7 ½” x 9”, players wear pants with reeded thigh pads. The players have numbers on their foreheads, and they probably were identified on the mount, which has been trimmed away. Pleasant vintage photo.
Winning Bid $45.
Lot 67. 1908 Real-Photo Postcard of the 1907 Drake Football Team. The message on the back of this postcard, mailed in Jan. 1908, refers to the team’s 13-8 loss to Iowa State. A player apparently wrote the message. During the first decade of the 20th century, Drake, located in Des Moines, enjoyed reasonable success against both Iowa and Iowa State. Vg+ to ex; ex except for a tiny corner crease.
Winning Bid $20.
Lot 69. 4 ½” x 5 ½” Sepia Photo of the 1929 Iowa-Minnesota Football Game. The photo, which captures game action, provides the score, a 9-7 victory for Iowa. It was the Gophers’ first loss in a 6-2 season. The photo shows excellent focus and contrast and is vg with a tiny corner chip.
Winning Bid $25.
Lot 70. 5 1929-32 St. Mary’s Football Programs vs. Alabama (with Don Hutson), Others. St. Mary’s was a football powerhouse from 1915 until the school dropped the sport in 1951. Four programs are for Gaels’ home games at Kezar Stadium; all have the year written on the cover. 1. 1928 vs. the Olympic Club, vg. Mort Kaer, USC All-America, played for the club. 2. 1929 at California, 24 pages, many player photos, pencil writing on cover, g-vg. 3. 1929 vs. Gonzaga, 12 pages, g. 4. 1929 vs. Santa Clara, which also once had strong football teams. Sixteen pages, vg. 5. 1932 vs. Alabama, three punch holes, otherwise ex. Alabama won, 6-0, to complete an 8-2 season. Future College Hall of Fame coaches led each team, Frank Thomas, the Crimson Tide, and Slip Madigan, the Gaels. Among the Alabama players were John Cain, another College HoF member; Don Hutson, in his first varsity season, and Tom Hupke, an NFL lineman for six seasons. Hutson is listed twice on rosters.
Winning Bid $40.
Lot 71. 1938 Colgate at Columbia Football Program with Luckman, Little and Kerr. Two future College Hall of Fame coaches faced off in this game, Lou Little for Columbia and Andy Kerr for Colgate. With future college and pro Hall of Famer Sid Luckman in his backfield, Little had an apparent advantage, but Colgate won, 12-0. Sixteen-page program, excellent Keller cover, vg with one corner of the cover clipped.
Winning Bid $20.
Lot 72. 11 1940-70s Ads with Luckman, Baugh, Grange, Hirsch, Hornung, Gifford. These advertisements are from various magazines and range from about 5” x 11” to 10” x 14”. Willard Mullin, famous for creating the Brooklyn Bum, provided the artwork for an ad in which Sid Luckman and Sammy Baugh endorse Champ Hats. Luckman and Baugh are in separate ads for Vitalis and Spalding, respectively. Others are Crazy Legs Hirsch for Voit, Red Grange for Wheaties, Frank Gifford for Lucky Strike, Paul Hornung for Marlboro (3, same art, different sizes), and Dick Butkus, with other athletes, for American Red Ball Movers. The Grange and Hornung ads average p-f to g-vg. The image area of the others averages ex-m; some have chips or creases in the borders.
Minimum Bid $20.
Lot 73. 20 1940s-70s Football Periodicals with Layne, Tittle, Lujack and Lombardi. These NFL and college stars and others are on the covers of these publications. A. S. Barnes & Co. created the earliest publication in this collection, the 1945 Official NCAA Football Guide, 94 pages, f-g cover, vg to vg+ pages. One of the more interesting items is the 1963 Ford Tele-Viewer. Designed to help viewers in watching football on TV, it contains split pages that can be lined up to provide the rosters of opposing teams. Photos of key players, including Starr, Ditka and Unitas, accompany each roster, ex+. In 1975, Pittsburgh won the penultimate All-Star game, 21-14, ex-m program, 148 pages. Illustrated Football Annual, 1946, Wedemeyer cover, f. Sports Review, Football Issue, 1953, Leon Hart, vg-ex, letter in pencil on cover. 1955, Guglielmi, vg. 1956, large corner chip; otherwise, vg. 1959, p-f cover, ex pages. Football Yearbook (True), 1950 vg-ex. 1958, Jimmy Brown vs. Joe Schmidt cover, g-vg. Dell Pro Football, 1958, Bobby Layne cover, g-vg, looks better with edge tears that don’t affect Layne. 1963 vg. Pro Football (Peterson), 1957 f. 1958, Jon Arnett-Tom Wilson cover, vg. Sport Life, Dec. 1948, Frank Tripucka cover, f. Sport Pix, Feb. 1949, Chappuis cover, vg+. Sport, Dec. 1951, Johnny Lujack cover, “G” and “51” on cover, otherwise vg-ex. Sports Album, Sept.-Nov. 1951, Bobby Reynolds cover, two copies, vg-ex with “a” on cover. Also: Lombardi: The Coach, The Man, The Legend, 1970, vg+. And Sept. 15, 1979 Michigan Football Guide, newspaper supplement, ex-m.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 74. Hires Root Beer 1941 Football Schedules, Army-Navy and Ohio State Programs. The 40-page Hires booklet presents the 1940 All-America team and college and pro schedules for 1941; vg with writing on the front cover. The Army-Navy programs are for 1954 (ex), which pictures Ron Beagle of Navy and Pete Vann of Army, both Heisman Trophy vote-getters, and 1971 (vg). Ohio State is represented by a 1964 media guide (nm-m) and a 1981 vs. Michigan State program, ex. Art Schlichter is pictured as the Buckeyes’ quarterback in 1981.
Minimum Bid $15.
Lot 75. 1946 East-West Shrine Football Game Program with Doak Walker. Stars from the East and West played to a 7-7 tie in this game. The 56-page program has a 1” chip missing from the lower left of the front cover and has a stain along the spine that shows on about one-half of the inside pages. Besides Walker, the program pictures such stars as Chuck Drazenovich, George Savitsky and Walt Schlinkman.
Minimum Bid $15.
Lot 76. 2 WWII-Era Military Football Programs, Photo of the 1946 N.Y. Giants, Etc. Like their major league baseball counterparts, many NFL stars played military football during World War II and immediately afterwards. A Dec. 9, 1945 program pictures Crazylegs Hirsch as a member of the El Toro Flying Marines, who faced the Fleet City Blue Jackets in the LA Coliseum. Besides Hirsch, Paul Governali, Frank Quillen, Harley McCollom and Walt Clay were on the team. The Blue Jackets, a top service team, had at least 11 NFLers, including Buddy Young, Charles O’Rourke, Val Jasante, Aldo Forte, Harry Hopp, Ed Kolman and Paul Patterson. All are pictured in the 18-page program, which has cover artwork by Lon Keller. Vg-ex. The cover has three tears of ½” or less. A second military program, from Oct. 6, 1946, features Saint Mary’s College vs. Alameda Naval Air Station at San Francisco’s Kezar Stadium. Jim Phelan coached the Gaels. Ex 14-page program with a tiny cover tear. Accompanying these programs is a 1940 Sacramento vs. San Francisco Junior College program, vg, score in pencil on the cover. Finally, a circa 1960 photo of the 1946 New York Giants, NFL Eastern Champs, nm.
Winning Bid $35.
Lot 77. 2 Michigan Football Programs – 1948 vs. Oregon and 1956 vs. UCLA. The 1948 Wolverines went undefeated and finished atop the Associated Press poll, while the 1956 team went 7-2, good enough for seventh place and one first-place vote. Norm Van Brocklin is pictured as a junior quarterback with the 1948 Oregon team. Michigan featured such familiar names as Pete Elliott, Alvin Wistert and Chuck Ortmann. Vg to vg+ 42-page program. Ron Kramer led the 1956 team, which defeated UCLA in its season opener, 42-13. The 64-page program is vg. As a bonus: The 2 ½” x 4 ½” Peek’size Football Guide 1961, which has 48 pages focusing on the Big Ten and Michigan colleges and high schools. Ex.
Winning Bid $20.
Lot 78. 1950 Chicago Bears Media Guide. This 32-page guide has small photos of such future Hall of Fame members as George Connor, Sid Luckman and Bulldog Turner, as well as Bears coaches George Halas and Paddy Driscoll. Vg copy with a vertical crease, several smaller creases and cover wear.
Winning Bid $35.
Lot 79. 1954 Sugar Bowl Program: Georgia Tech vs. West Virginia. Led by Pepper Rodgers, the Yellow Jackets easily dispatched the Mountaineers, 42-19. The 104-page program is rough, but it also has some significant merits. The cover is missing, and so are the photos of several West Virginia players. At the same time, it provides useful information on the Sugar Bowl, and it pictures such notables as Bobby Dodd and Rodgers for the Ramblin’ Reck and Sam Huff, Joe Marconi and Bruce Bosley for the team from Morgantown.
Winning Bid $10.
Lot 80. 1956 Tom Hamilton’s Pigskin Football Board Game by Parker Brothers. This game appears complete, with the exception of three player pieces for one team. Included are original game pieces, cards, rules, “Chart-o-Graph” scoring pad and the “field” game board. The lid features fantastic graphics. One flap is detached but present; vg with ex-m contents. Hamilton had a College Hall of Fame career with Navy in the mid-1920s and later served as athletic director at Pitt.
Winning Bid $40.
