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davidcyclebackThanks Adam. A wrestling card collector mentioned to me that one was found and sold.
I have a pile of the original art for the 1930s-50s wrestling cards. My retired dad and his friend visited and were looking through my stuff. They got the biggest kick at the wrestling art, as they remembered watching the wrestlers on tv as kids ... My dad said he always thought it was 100% real, but, remembering back, the action ended just before commercial time ... He said the getting old Bronco was only a wrestling referee when he was a kid, but that didn't stop him from taking out a wrestler from time time time if the wrestler didn't follow commands.
Below is the original art for the 1930s card. Nagurski was 6'2" and 235 pounds, which is a decent size fullback in today's NFL. Can you imaging how hard it was for a college football player to tackle him in the 1920s?!?
