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Football Cards, Autographs and Memorabilia
14 Lots
 Lot 211. 1950 Topps Felt Backs Football Display Box Top. The cards of this football issue are among the scarcest and most desirable in the hobby. If a complete display box exists, we haven’t seen it. Generally, it’s not even pictured in references. Offered here is the top panel of a box. It is colorful with graphics that include an in-action punter in period uniform, a football with “VARSITY” across it, a gridiron and two pennants, one with “COLLEGE” across it and “PENNANTS” across the other. Additional text reads, “bubble gum, 100 Gridiron Stars – 100!, 100 College Pennants – 100!” This blank-backed panel is affixed to a black background and comes nicely framed for display. Incredibly Rare!
Winning Bid $148.
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 Lot 214. 1950s Victor Vending Football Gum Machine and Game. For 1 cent, this vintage vendor dispensed a gumball and allowed the purchaser to play a game by catapulting the ball in order to achieve a Touchdown, Field Goal or Off Side penalty. Measuring 8 ½” wide x 14” tall x 8 3/8” deep, this vending machine is original and in good working order. Two keys provide access to the interior. The vendor has some spots of wear, and there is some light rust on the lid. It displays nicely and is like to serve as an excellent source of conversation and entertainment.
Winning Bid $138.
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 Lot 215. Early 1920s Green Bay Packers Photo with Curly Lambeau (HoF). The Hall of Fame Packers’ founder and coach is second from the left in a 3” x 4 ½” sepia photo. Five other players are pictured. Vintage steel tip fountain pen on the back identifies the photo as “Green Bay Professionals.” Lambeau formed the Packers while working for the Indian Packing Company in 1919. The team joined the National Football League in 1921. Ex photo with somewhat light contrast and sharp focus. Early photos of Lambeau are rare.
Winning Bid $113.
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 Lot 216. Rare Photo Premium of the 1937 Rose Bowl Champion Pitt Panthers. Following a third-place finish in the 1936 AP poll with a 7-1-1 record, the Panthers faced fifth-ranked Washington in the Rose Bowl. The Huskies also posted a 7-1-1 regular-season record. Led by legendary coach Jock Sutherland, Pitt scored in the first and third periods and then put the game away in the fourth when Bill Daddio intercepted a pass and returned to 71 yards for a touchdown. Daddio is pictured in the 9” x 12” photo, which is matted and framed to 14 ½” x 18 ½”. So are Sutherland and sophomore Marshall Goldberg, who played well in the Rose Bowl and helped to lead the 1937 Pitt team to an unbeaten, once-tied record and the top spot in the AP poll. Goldberg and Sutherland are in the College Hall of Fame. John Michelosen, who later coached Pitt and the Pittsburgh Steelers, is also in the photo. Issued by a Pitt publication, the premium is a thing of beauty because of its rarity. Technically, the photo has a vertical center fold, multiple creases, a small piece of tape over a tear, surface crazing and black added around the edges for reasons that aren’t clear. The premium identifies the players, and the names of those that actually played in the Rose Bow are underlined. This was the only Pitt team to win the Rose Bowl in four attempts. A “must” for Panther fans!
Winning Bid $110.
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 Lot 217. Washington Redskins Collection Including a Football Signed by Art Monk (HoF). These items are from the estate of Wilmer Fields, ace pitcher for the Negro League Homestead Grays in the 1940s. Two items were awarded to his son Billy for his participation in the 1970 Punt, Pass and Kick competition: a 1970 Redskins HNFL medium helmet from Rawlings and a 1970 Redskins team football with facsimile autographs. The helmet shows good use with the side decals intact. The football, with facsimile autographs including Sonny Jurgensen and Sam Huff, is mint and comes with a kicking tee. Autographs are a key part of the collection. Art Monk, the Redskins Hall of Fame receiver, shares a white panel of a mint Tagliabue NFL Official Football with Charles Mann, a four-time Pro Bowl selection who was voted one of the 70 greatest Redskins of all-time. Their signatures are bold, both 10s except for a slight smudge at the beginning of the “h” in “Charles.” A signature on another panel is too light to be read. Mann’s autograph, personalized to “Audrey,” is also on a side panel of a Selig Official Major League baseball. Nm to nm-m signature, mint ball. There are four other autographs, all on 8’ x 10” b&w photos, Curt Knight, Mike Bragg, Brigg Owen and John Hoffman. All are nm-m 8 or better; the first three are personalized to “Wilmer.” Other items are: 1. A 1984 45 rpm record “Hog Wild and Skin Crazy” by the Five Card Draw Band, nm-m in a vg picture sleeve. 2. A 1975 Redskins schedule. 3. Ticket stubs for Baltimore Colts and San Francisco 49ers games, date torn away. 4. A program for a 1970 Cowboys at Redskins game, ex. Kevin Keating authenticated the autographs in this collection.
Winning Bid $102.
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 Lot 218. 68 Notre Dame Football Media Guides, Reviews and Other Annuals, 1944-2003. Softcovers unless otherwise noted, these publication are concentrated in the 1950s and 1960s. Media guides constitute almost half of the collection. The 1951-86 guides have color covers and b&w photos. Beginning with 1989, the guides have color and b&w photos. For 1951-54, the university issued the Football Preview, each edition with about 40 illustrated pages; the issues average vg+ to ex. The Sports Publicity Department produced the Dope Book, in a similar format with 46-56 pages, for 1956-65, ex overall. The Football Guide, with 82 or 96 pages, served as the media guide for 1967-77; four issues are vg, and the others are ex. More recent media guides, which generally are ex or better, include the Blue & Gold Illustrated 1986 Yearbook, the Football Preview for 1989, 1990, 1993 and 2002, the Football Yearbook for 2003 and the school’s 1995 Fiesta Bowl media guide. For decades, the university’s student publication, The Notre Dame Scholastic, produced an annual “Football Review” issue. “Reviews” are present for 25 seasons, 1944, 1950, 1951, 1953-68, 1973, 1974 and 1987. The 1944 issue is g-vg, complete with the covers largely detached but still holding on. The other issues average vg-ex. For 1981, 1983 and 1984, the Sport Information Department generated reviews in a production titled Irish Eye, two ex and one vg. There also are programs for the 1980-82 Blue-Gold Games, vg-ex, and the Spring Prospectus for 1968, 1969, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1992, ex. The 1966, 1973 and 1977 teams, all represented in the collection, won national championships. Publication covers show such stars and coaches as Tony Rice, Lou Holtz, Vagas Ferguson, Allen Pinkett, Frank Leahy, Johnny Lattner, Ralph Guglielmi, Ara Parseghian, Joe Theismann, Tom Clements, Tim Brown, Rocket Ismail and others.
Winning Bid $125.
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 Lot 219. 1978 National Football League Near Set of 277 TV Slides. Each season, the NFL distributed a set of 35mm slides to be used by the sports departments of television stations. Each NFC and AFC team is represented by 11 slides featuring players, the head coach, actions scenes or the team logo. This set is missing the slides for the Cowboys, Eagles and Redskins. The AFC is complete. Highlights include James Lofton, Fred Dryer, Alan Page, Archie Manning, Dan Dierdorf, Pat Tilley, Roger Wehrli, Jim Plunkett, Otis Armstrong, Elvin Bethea, Earl Campbell, Marv Levy, Art Still, Bob Griese, Joe Klecko, John Madden, Cliff Branch, Ken Stabler, Jack Tatum, Gene Upshaw, Mel Blount, Jack Lambert, Dan Fouts and Steve Largent. Nm-m.
Winning Bid $125.
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 Lot 220. 1979 National Football League Near Set of 299 TV Slides. The NFL distributed these 35mm slides to television sports departments. Generally, 11 slides represent each NFL teams. Players, head coaches, action scenes and team logos are featured. The Philadelphia Eagles are absent from this set. Among the highlights are Alan Page, Danny White, Gary Danielson, Jack Reynolds, Archie Manning, Phil Simms, Dan Dierdorf, Pat Tilley, Roger Wehrli, Joe Montana, Doug Williams, Bert Jones, Ozzie Newsome, Jan Stenerud, Larry Csonka, Harold Jackson, Mark Gastineau, Mike Webster, Lydell Mitchell and Kellen Winslow. Nm-m.
Winning Bid $138.
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 Lot 240. Wayne Gretzky Autograph – on a Mario Lemieux Photo (!) and Other Autographs. Actually, the signature is on the cover of the program for Lemieux’s 1999 charity golf event, and that’s where our consignor caught up with the Great One! The autograph is a bold 10. Inside, next to their photos, are autographs of Johnny Bench, John Elway, Mario Lemieux, Jim McMahon, Joe Morgan, Dan Quinn and Lynn Swann. Among these autographs, the Bench is especially strong and attractive. In addition, the program is signed also by Kevin McClatchy, former CEO and lead owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The autographs are bold 9s and 10s. The program comes matted and framed to about 11” x 14”. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $138.
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