Yes it's legit, and looks to be a typical AdFlag example, based on the age, artwork and font.

Good pickup!

Saw this and was curious if its a fantasy piece.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-195...p2047675.l2557

Not a Fantasy piece in the true sense of the term. It is just a reproduction pennant... same style as many that Mitchell & Ness has produced over recent years. Unfortunately someone paid about 6 times what it was worth.

You are right about the 6x. “reproduction”? I don’t think it’s a copy of anything that was ever produced in the 1950’s....

These are awesome!

Football pennants
 

I was looking at some of my Santa Clara football pennants tonight and was wondering about the generic runner/kicker/passer images on them. I have several pennants that include a generic player image (see below). I've seen most of these same images used for other teams, but not the first one (I admit that I haven't serched extensively).

I was curious if anyone has a pennant with this same runner image?

I'm also curious to hear what people think about which one of these pennants might be the oldest.

I think the one with the guy throwing the left stiff arm is the oldest.

Why? I dunno. :p

It is the dirtiest.

The oldest is the small one with the runner that is facing you followed by the one with the player stiff arming with his left arm. Then the other two that are just white would likely by 50’s with the one with pink on it being from the 60’s

Agree with Jason..but I'll say the three oldest are probably pretty close in age. I have a "Los Angeles" Rams version of the small one and the Rams didn't move to L.A. until 1946. The stiff arm RB and the punter style were used pretty commonly for AAFC football pennants and defunct NFL teams (Boston Yanks, New York Yanks) from the 1940s and early 50s. The AAFC existed from 1946-49. The Boston Yanks from 1944-48. The New York Yanks 1950-51.

Interesting to note (to me anyway) the punter graphic made a comeback with Trench in the early 1960s. I've seen Cowboys, Raiders, Packers examples, with the Cowboys and Raiders not existing until 1960. But these are distinctive, because the flags around the stadium look like flags now...compared to the 1940s version (Marc's), in which the flags look like star blobs. All of the 1940s pennants have flags like this.

1940s version (star blob flags)

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1960s version (normal flags)

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