Historic football panoramic photo in HA - 1925 Giants vs Bears - Grange rookie year

[Ribbens]

http://sports.ha.com/itm/football-collectibles/photos/1925-new-york-giants-vs-chicago-bears-at-the-polo-grounds-panoramic-photograph-historically-significant-image-featuring-red-1-/a/7123-82143.s?ic2=myconsignmentspage-lotlinks-12202013

[RollieFingers]

http://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F3%2F9%2F5%2F0%2F13950657%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D

[revmoran]

I'll be watching that - but not sure if it has the eye appeal to motivate me to bid - i tried to knit it together

https://storage.googleapis.com/mjmsports/1925%201.jpg

[jefferyepayne]

Yeah, I've been watching it as well. Thanks for outing it! :)

jeff

[Blcmmh]

Great piece, I will be watching as well.

[revmoran]

What do we think it will go for? I'm high bidder at the moment - but don't let that hold you back, I'm not going the distance. I have a couple of nice panoramas, including a 1924 shot of Pottsville fans and a 1927 banquet for Hinkey Haines, with Lou Gehrig in the foreground. Possibly my favorite, and least valuable, is the Akron Cab Company football team. Below each image is a link to a larger file if anyone is interested.

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj277/revmoran/1924%20Pottsville%20at%20Atlantic%20City%202.jpg
https://storage.googleapis.com/mjmsports/1924%20Pottsville%20at%20Atlantic%20City%202.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj277/revmoran/1927%20Haines%20Banquet%20panoramic.jpg
https://storage.googleapis.com/mjmsports/1927%20Haines%20Banquet%20panoramic.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj277/revmoran/Akron%20Cabs%20Football%201926.jpg
https://storage.googleapis.com/mjmsports/Akron%20Cabs%20Football%201926.jpg

[pariah1107]

WOW, WOW, and WOW! Great panoramas rev!

[Blcmmh]

Great panoramas Mike !!!! I also have the Pottsville one, it's my favorite. Im going to watch this auction very closely

[CowboysGuide]

Wow...love that 1926 shot of the Akron Cabs!! Any chance the names of players are on the back or how to find out who's who?

[revmoran]

No names on the back of the Akron Cabs Football team and no luck in searching newspapers for articles either. One thing on that 1925 Bears at Giants photo - you can certainly see why Tim Mara made his money at that game - so different from most photos from the 1920s where the Polo Grounds has vast sections of empty seats - like this shot of Glenn Campbell running for a TD for the Giants in a 1929 game
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--aQcDnhj08Q/VxuaspEq4hI/AAAAAAAARJg/BJWWoj_1pM0aUnO3zET1TDPM1GFl43-FgCCo/s576/1929%2BCampbell%2BTD%2BPolo%2BGrounds.jpg

[TanksAndSpartans]

I didn't see in the HA description that they identified Grange. I see a figure in a coat that looks likes his raccoon coat near the 35. Is that him?

[Ribbens]

Is there another picture of him in that coat so we can verify the match?

[TanksAndSpartans]

A Google images search for "red grange raccoon coat" turns up several, but I couldn't magnify the figure at the 35 enough.....

[revmoran]

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/heres-a-pose-of-harold-red-grange-the-nations-football-idol-as-he-on-picture-id515136762

Can't see much in the Heritage scan

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PsvtSbQ331c/VxwfAkGqABI/AAAAAAAARJ4/CNbaBIQRh-sq2ibRrj9tq6v07-_rAZIVwCCo/s510/2.jpg

[Ribbens]

Here is another picture from November 1925 before joining the Bears.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/red-grange-second-from-left-wearing-raccoon-coat-seated-news-photo/514952790

[Ribbens]

The item sold for 3400.00

[jefferyepayne]

$4063 with Bidders Premium.

Expected it would go between $3K-5K so it ended up right in the middle.

What a historic piece!

jeff

[Blcmmh]

Unfortunately I was the under bidder. What a great piece !

[TanksAndSpartans]

Mike - nice job honing in on the unknown figure - sure looks like Grange to me.