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Posted By: davidcycleback

All I can tell you is that with vintage football collectors, there is very strong demand for college material. Early Notre Dame or U of Michigan material can be as popular, and even as valuable, as Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions. In baseball memorabilia, college baseball is relatively minor, but in football, and perhaps other sports like basketball, college is in high demand. Columbia is an Ivy League school, so would rank as a popular vintage school. In the old days, the Ivy League was an athletic powerhouse, with Ivy League teams winning a majority of the Pre-WWI national football championships. Lou Gehrig played football and baseball at Columbia in the 1920s and was sometimes called 'Columbia Lou.'