Cool eBay/Football story

[Fballguy]

Very interesting Marc! That would explain why there were three. And that would explain the diversity of signatures on the hats. The one I pictured, in addition to having probably close to 30 Rams signature, also has Doak Walker, Art Donovan, Gino Marchetti, Y.A. Tittle, Joe Perry, John Henry Johnson, Lou Creekmur, Buck Shaw, Bert Bell and others with no connection to the Rams. Plenty of San Francisco and Santa Clara ties there though.

[Fballguy]

One other thing Marc that intrigued me about your hat....It has a couple caricatures on it if I remember correctly. One is visible in the picture you shared. Any idea who drew those? He seemed to have friends in all walks of life. Curious if there's somebody famous behind those.

[smokelessjoe]

Perhaps this helps a little.

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by smokelessjoe

Perhaps this helps a little.

That is awesome. Where is the article from? I'd love to get a copy.

So there's 19 of these hats out there. I wonder where the other 16 are?

[smokelessjoe]

Yikes, sorry about that. I found it online.

The Santa Clara March 26th 1953 newspaper

Here is another article I found with two pics of hats. In the original source you can "sort" of make out some of the text - I'm guessing especially if you had that same hat.

The Redwood
Topics College yearbooks
Publisher Santa Clara College
Collection santaclarauniversitylibrary; americana
Digitizing sponsor Santa Clara University Library
Contributor Santa Clara University Library
Language English
Volume 1962