Mayo John Dunlop Auction

[cfhofer]

DezHood,

Given your recent comments regarding Doggie Trenchard and early Pittsburgh Professional Football Teams I thought you may enjoy these two pics. They are 8x10 cabinet photos of the 1899 Duquesne Country and Athletic Club (DC&AC). Some consider this team the first great professional football team. These photos were acquired from the estate of Charles Gelbert (far right, on knee with a nice right-eye shiner). Doggie Trenchard is behind Gelbert.

Cheers

Mark

[TanksAndSpartans]

Wow - nice - thanks Mark. Great items!

[jefferyepayne]

Awesome photos, Mark! Very, very nice. Been looking for a photo of that time for quite a while.

jeff

[TanksAndSpartans]

Looks like Langdon "Biffy" Lea played for the AAA as well. Now I'm curious who else among this group played football after graduation.....

[jefferyepayne]

John Spano wrote an excellent series of articles on the Mayo set for Gridiron Greats a few years ago and it talks about all of the cards and what he was able to dig up about the players.

Highly recommend it if you can snag those editions.

jeff

[TanksAndSpartans]

Thanks Jeff. I figured GG would have something - I put it on my To Do list to order that back issue.

On a related note - I see what you mean about Hinkey now - wow lots of articles about him. Where are you with the set btw? You just need the Dunlop?

[revmoran]

Looking at John's articles, a number of the players coached in the college ranks - as for the pros, he mentions that Frank Hinkey coached the Dayton Triangles of the NFL in 1921 and Thomas Trenchard played for professional football teams in Western Pennsylvania including Latrobe and Allegheny - a lot of the players pictured served in the Spanish American War and some in WW I

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by DezHood

Where are you with the set btw? You just need the Dunlop?

For my second set ;-) It's no great secret as they are both listed on the SGC registry but I have two complete sets of Mayos minus one Dunlop. Have had plenty of chances to pick up a second but would rather spend the $$$ on something else.

Selling my triples and quadruples for anyone interested ...

jeff