Football Programs

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Dan- I have a 1931 College of the Ozarks at Arkansas and have 17 others from the 1930's. I have a great friend in Little Rock who has a 1912 Arkansas at Washington (St. Louis) shaped like a football and a hand full of one-sheet programs from the 1918-30 period.

The programs from schools that were small like Arkansas during the pre-1940 era are fairly scarce opposed to programs from some of the larger schools around the country. Attendance at Arkansas games rarely exceeded 10,000 in that early period and was much less pre-30.

The strength and popularity of the Ivy League schools is apparent in the amount of programs from the pre-40 period that are available on eBay. Same goes for the the larger west coast schools and what was then the Big Nine.

I seldom see any pre-40 much less pre-30 programs from the southern schools, even the current SEC members. One of my prized programs is a 1929 Henderson State at Centenary in Shreveport with Cal Hubbard playing for the Gents. I love finding the programs from not only Arkansas but the smaller schools around the state like Henderson and Ouachita Baptist. I was SID at Henderson for many years and a played a year at Arkansas Tech, well didn't really play but was on the team!

[jefferyepayne]

Great D-Day photo, Jeff!

Love all the various programs in this thread.

jeff

[revmoran]

I have the radio broadcast from the Pearl Harbor Day Giants game on my website
http://www.hapmoran.org/Other/Radio.mp3

My parents were at the game, I heard about it every December 7. Also, if you look in the program my father is listed among the all-time Giants scoring leaders.

This is my favorite program - obviously



But I'm also happy with a run of early Giants championship programs -

[jefferyepayne]

WOW!!!!

That's a heck of a run, Mike.

jeff

[LuckyLarry]

Really enjoyed learning about your Dad!
Larry

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Mike those are really special, I can't imagine how cool it is with the emotional connection to the programs!

[Dan Carson]

Thanks Mike for the information. Both of my folks are from Arkansas and I still follow the Razorbacks. I should say I follow there football, baseball, & basketball teams.

Dan

[jefferyepayne]

I'm a big fan of the Pottsville Maroons and have lots of Pottsville items. I've only got two programs, though, as they are hard to find.

Not in very good shape but I've never seen another Coaldale program


1927 Pocket Schedule


Buffalo Rangers vs. Pottsville


The Rangers were an original NFL team but were called the All-Americans. Many believe they were hosed out of the 1921 NFL championship by a dirty deed by George Halas of the Chicago Bears. The Buffalo team change their name to the Bisons in 1927 and were out of the league a couple of years later.

jeff

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Dan- Glad to know there is a Razorback fan out west!

[revmoran]

The Giants mentioned at the bottom were the pre-Mara Giants - the Charles Brickley Giants that lasted only one year.

[jefferyepayne]

That's nice, Mike. From looking at records, seems to be from 1922. I thought Brickley Giants had folded after the 1921 season? Does this mean they stayed around after leaving the NFL? If so, I did not know that.

jeff

P.S. Any chance "Berry" on Holmesburg is Charlie Berry?

Awesome schedule Mike. Love the Thanksgiving Day game announcement, I had always bought the NFL story of the Detroit Lions starting this tradition. Great stuff.

I'll take a photo today of the old Hub Furniture Store here in Ellensburg and post it later. The mural on the side of the building must be 75-90 years old.

[TanksAndSpartans]

I know I'm a little late to the thread (been busy with work recently), but I really enjoyed seeing all these programs. I remember there was a program (Jeff, not sure if that is where you got yours) in the first MSB auction from the Florida leg of the Grange tour. That auction also had the 32 championship program from the Bears/Spartans game. I checked with the MSB guys and they said it wasn't the one on Pawn Stars (History Channel). I think there are only about 4 of these known and they all might have smoke damage from a fire in the Bears offices. I do recall seeing a nice one come up at Heritage within the last year.

The Tuffy Leeman's Day program was nagging at me last night and I finally realized why - the Winter 2015 issue of Gridiron Greats has an article by Mar-tin Jay.cobs titled "NFL's Forgotten Games of 12-07-41". Its not clear why, but even though it was the final Sunday of the regular season, there were only three games scheduled - Bears/Cardinals, Giants/Dodgers, and Eagles/Redskins.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by DezHood

I know I'm a little late to the thread (been busy with work recently), but I really enjoyed seeing all these programs. I remember there was a program (Jeff, not sure if that is where you got yours) in the first MSB auction from the Florida leg of the Grange tour. That auction also had the 32 championship program from the Bears/Spartans game. I checked with the MSB guys and they said it wasn't the one on Pawn Stars (History Channel). I think there are only about 4 of these known and they all might have smoke damage from a fire in the Bears offices. I do recall seeing a nice one come up at Heritage within the last year.

The Tuffy Leeman's Day program was nagging at me last night and I finally realized why - the Winter 2015 issue of Gridiron Greats has an article by Mar-tin Jay.cobs titled "NFL's Forgotten Games of 12-07-41". Its not clear why, but even though it was the final Sunday of the regular season, there were only three games scheduled - Bears/Cardinals, Giants/Dodgers, and Eagles/Redskins.

Teams in the NFL back then didn't necessarily start or finish on the same weekends. My bet is this had to do with the availability of the stadiums they often shared with baseball. All of the other teams that year had already completed their schedules.

jeff

[revmoran]

This was interesting to me because the coach Earl Potteiger was coach of the NY Giants for their first championship season in 1927