Lot 191. Rare Chicago High Schools Football Rivalry Circa 1880 Cabinet Photo. . Wonderful sepia photo with the LVHS and HPHS teams in uniform, including some vintage caps, and a football in foreground. Cabinet is 5” x 7”, has a “Johnson & Wilkins, Amateur Photographers” label on the back, has a couple of very minor scratches, shows good contrast and is ex.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 192. 1905 Northwestern Iowa Football Champions Cabinet Photo. Fourteen prep school boys in uniform. Sharp nm photo from West Union, IA, is 7 ½” x 9 ½” on a 10” x 13 ½” mount that has a minor water stain in the lower right corner.
Winning Bid $25.
Lot 193. Photo of the 1930 Notre Dame National Championship Team. This 5 1/8” x 8 ¼” b&w photo, which appears to be a book plate, is sharply focused and well contrasted. Knute Rockne is pictured. The edges are frayed. The photo itself is nm-m.
Winning Bid $25.
Lot 194. 1931 Graham Motor Memorial Tribute to Knute Rockne. Edgar A. Guest eulogized Rockne on the Graham Radio Hour, and the company produced this sepia photograph on the cover of a folder that has Guest’s words reprinted inside. Vg+ to ex.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 195. 13 Photos of 1930s-40s Football Players Including 3 African-Americans. The players, likely on a college team, wear wing-front football helmets. The photos are generally free of creases. Seven have insignificant border stains, and two have more significant stains away from the player’s image. Unusual vintage images.
Minimum Bid $30.
Lot 196. 1938 Original AP Wire Photo of Heisman Winner Davey O’Brien + TCU Postcard. Superb posed action image of the 1938 Heisman Trophy recipient, the fourth to win the award. Great clarity and contrast; technically vg with ¼” border tear. The linen pc of TCU’s Amon Carter Stadium has an ex front and minor damage to the back.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 197. 1930 USC vs. Pittsburgh Rose Bowl Emergency Armband. The Panthers lost to the Trojans, 47-14. The armband gave the owner admission to the Rose Bowl at Gate 27. It is about 2 ¾” x 9”, trimmed somewhat irregularly on the right and has some scrapbook residue on the back. It displays as ex-m. Incredibly rare and unusual.
Minimum Bid $35.
Lot 199. Joe Montana High School Program, Super Bowl Roster. . 1971 Ringgold-Clairton program listing Montana as a sophomore substitute. Vg, one horizontal and one vertical fold. 2. 1982 Super Bowl XVI roster with Montana. Vertical fold, vg-ex.
Minimum Bid $50.
Lot 200. 13 Pennsylvania Big 33 Football Classic Programs - 1960-1998. The Big 33 is one of the premier all-star games for high school athletes. The programs are from 1960, 1970-74, 1976-78, 1980, 1994, 1997 and 1998. For most of these games, players from Western Pennsylvania faced stars from the eastern half of the state. Highlights: 1. 1960 vs. vg-ex. 2. 1974, Joe Montana pictured, ex-m. 3. 1976, Bruce Clarke, Matt Millen, vg+ to ex. 4. 1978, Jim Kelly shown three times, nm. 5. 1997, LaVar Arrington, ex. Other issues average ex-m, many with incidental writing inside.
Winning Bid $45.
Lot 201. 4 1930s-40s Football Publications + 1 from the 1970s. All soft-cover publications. 1. Football by Potsy Clark, 1935, 32 pages, vg front cover with writing on it, ex contents. 2. 1940 Spalding’s National Football League Official Guide, 98 pages, vg-ex. 3. 1948 Football as the Champions Play It published by Jeanette Rubber Co., 30 pages, vg-ex. Pictures Cleveland Browns players. 4. 1949 Mon-Valley High Schools Football Preview, Pittsburgh area publication, 46 pages, ex. 5. 1971-72 Pro Football Guide with a color center-fold that pictures Unitas, Namath, etc. 12 pages, g-vg.
Minimum Bid $40.
Lot 202. 7 1940s-50s Issues of Sport with Football Covers. These covers feature photographs every bit as good as Life’s – and they are in color! All are without labels. 1946: Tom Harmon and his wife. Very small edge chips; otherwise, ex. 1947: Oct., Harry Gilmer, ex+. Nov., Johnny Lujack (Notre Dame), vg-ex. 1948: Lujack (Bears), ex+. 1949: Charlie Justice, ex-m. Dec., Lujack and Sid Luckman, some paper loss along the spine; otherwise, ex. 1955: Jan., Pete Pihos, ex+.
Winning Bid $61.
Lot 203. 3 Magazines with Johnny Unitas Covers Plus a Photo. Unitas is the top QB of his era in a superb photo on the cover of the Dec. 12, 1964 Saturday Evening Post, vg+. Also, May 7, 2001 Sports Illustrated, ex+, and the Sept. 23, 2002 SI, which pays tribute to “The Best There Ever Was,” nm. In addition, an 8” x 10” color photo, nm.
Winning Bid $30.
