Lot 67. 2003 LSU National Collegiate Football Championship Trophy. This trophy is an exact 12 ½” replica of the larger original that resides in the Louisiana State “Hall of Fame Room” in Baton Rouge. These replicas were given to a limited number of key LSU officials. The Tigers were awarded “The National Champion” original trophy after defeating Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl, 21-14. The black and silver trophy reflects the involvement of the Bowl Championship Series, the American Football Coaches Association and the USA Today/ESPN Coaches’ Poll in determining the champion. The replica is made of lacquered wood. A crystal football sits atop the trophy, which is 6” across. Opportunities to own another of these dramatic trophies are likely to be very limited.
Winning Bid $605.
Lot 68. Fabulous Georgia Tech Full-Sized Pennant for the 1952 Orange Bowl in Miami. Future coach Pepper Rodgers kicked a field goal in the fourth quarter to cap a 17-14 come-from-behind victory for Yellow Jackets over Baylor. Under head coach Bobby Dodd, Tech finished fifth in the AP poll with an 11-0-1 record. The gold-on-white wool pennant is about 12 ½” x 32” plus tassels. A yellow jacket is shown at the far left. The text says “18th Annual Orange Bowl Game, Georgia Tech, Miami, Florida, Jan. 1st 1952.” Like new!
Winning Bid $83.
Lot 69. 78 Different Programs from the First Season (1974) of the World Football League. Created to challenge the NFL, the WFL lasted one full season and most of the second. Despite its financial problems, it featured some excellent coaches - Tom Fears, Jack Pardee, Marty Schottenheimer and John McVay, for example. The league also fielded some fine football players at either the end or beginning of their careers - Leroy Kelly, Larry Csonka, Paul Warfield, Anthony Davis, Calvin Hill and Danny White. These 78 programs cover two-thirds of the WFL’s 1974 games. They have a white background at the top, which tends to show rubbing very easily. This condition aside, these programs average ex-m. This is the largest and most comprehensive group of WFL programs that we have seen offered. Charlotte Hornets, 2 programs. The Hornets began the season as the New York Stars. Chicago Fire, 6. The Fire programs don’t have dates. Detroit Wheels, 5. Marvin Gaye was an owner of this team. Florida Blazers, 4. Includes the Blazers’ Divisional Playoff game with Philadelphia. The Blazers won, 18-3; they later lost to Birmingham in the World Bowl. Hawaii (The Hawaiians), 9. One issue focuses on NFL players who will join the WFL in 1975. Houston Texans, which moved to Shreveport, 3. Jacksonville Sharks, 5. Memphis, 8. Coached by McVay, later general manager of the NFL 49ers, the Southmen (Grizzlies) won the WFL’s Central Division title. New York Stars, 6. The Stars moved to Charlotte. Philadelphia, 9. Includes two different covers for the same game. Portland Storm, 8. Shreveport Steamer, 4. Originally the Houston Texans. Southern California Sun, 9. Fears coached this team to the Western Division title. Also, media guides for the Chicago Fire ex-m+ and Houston Texans ex.
Winning Bid $514.
Lot 70. 1974 Season Tickets, Media Guide for the World Football League Chicago Fire. Media guide is ex-m. Tickets are unused and still connected at the perforations to form a 9” x 12” uncut sheet of 10 tickets plus the schedule and an advertisement for Carling Black Label beer. These are actual season tickets, not “proofs.” They’re for Section 110 Row 19, Seat 35. The Fire home schedule featured the Houston Texans, Jacksonville Sharks, Florida Blazers, Philadelphia Bell, Birmingham Americans, Southern California Sun, Memphis Southmen, New York Stars, Detroit Wheels and Honolulu Hawaiians. The sheet of tickets is ex-m+. Fire players included former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Virg Carter and Notre Dame All-America Larry Seymour.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 71. 48 Different Programs from the Final Season (1975) of the World Football League. The financially troubled league folded before the end of its second season in 1975. These 47 programs cover more than three-fourths of the games played. They average ex-m+. Charlotte Hornets, 3 programs. Ike Thomas is pictured on one cover. Chicago Winds, 2. Babe Parilli coached this team, which went out of business after five games. Hawaii (The Hawaiians), 6. Calvin Hill joined this team, and Sonny Sixkiller started some games at quarterback. Jacksonville Express, 6. George Mira at quarterback. Memphis Southmen, 5. Paul Warfield and Larry Csonka covers. Philadelphia Bell, 2. Willie Wood coached this team, which included Ted Kwalick. The Bell’s Vince Papale provides one of the league’s success story. A wide receiver, Papale went to a college that didn’t have a football team. Because of his Bell experience, the Eagles give him a try, and he made the roster, 1976-78. Portland Thunder, 6. San Antonio Wings, 6. Shreveport Steamer, 6. Southern California Sun, 6. Heisman Trophy runner-up Anthony Davis of USC is on the cover of one program. On others, Pat Haden, Tom Fears and Daryle Lamonica. In general, six is the maximum number of home games that a team played. These programs generally are more attractive than the league’s 1974 programs. They are accompanied by a 1975 Chicago Winds media guide, which is ex+.
Winning Bid $366.
Lot 72. 5 Army-Navy Football Programs - 1938 (2 Different), 1940, 1941, 1956. Outstanding programs from one of college football’s greatest rivalries and traditions. Army won the 1938 game, and Navy, the 1940 and 1941 contests. The 1956 game ended in a 7-7 tie. The cover of the 102-page 1938 program features artwork by Howard Chandler Christy. Ex-m. A copy of the Nov. 25, 1938 issue of The Log, a Midshipman weekly publication, doubles as a second program. It includes rosters and extensive coverage of the upcoming game. Vg-ex. The comic character “Skippy” occupies the cover of the 156-page 1940 program. Marine Maj. E. E. “Swede” Larson coached Navy to the first of three straight wins over Army. As a player, he contributed to three Midshipmen victories. Vg+ to ex. The 1941 program expanded to 212 pages. Larson and Red Blaik are pictured. Tiny stain, ex. Future Heisman Trophy winner Pete Dawkins is pictured in the 1956 program. G-vg because of paper loss along the spine; cover looks better.
Winning Bid $100.
Lot 73. 1944 Full Ticket - Chicago Bears vs. Washington Redskins at Baltimore Stadium. The green and yellow ticket is from a Sept. 10 benefit exhibition game. The two teams did not meet during the regular season, and each finished with a 6-3 record. This very attractive ticket is printed on thick stock, is crease free and ex-m+.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 74. Full Ticket for the 1922 Army-Navy Game at Franklin Field. Army won, 17-14, to complete a 8-0-2 season. The game featured two All-Americans, Ed Garbisch for Army and W. H. Taylor of Navy. Two-part ticket has a small piece of tape at the top; otherwise, vg-ex. Ex appearance. Clean back.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 75. 1940s University of Texas Ticket Stubs and Pin. The seven stubs are for three 1944 home games - two tickets for Southwestern University, two for Oklahoma A&M (Oklahoma State) and three for Texas A&M. As torn at the gate, the stubs range from vg to ex+. With the stubs is a 2 ½” pin that reads, “For TEXAS I Will.” Hanging from the pin is a 2” copper-colored football. The slogan is closely associated with Texas Memorial Stadium, home of the football Texas Longhorns. University of Texas students adopted the slogan during the 1924 drive to raise funds for the new stadium. Short black line on the pin; otherwise, ex-m.
Winning Bid $92.
Lot 508. 6 Notre Dame Programs - 1938, 1941, 1949, 1951, 1952 and 1955. The 1938 program, from a game against Navy at Baltimore Stadium, is nm. The other programs: 1941 vs. Army at Yankee Stadium, g-vg. 1949 vs. North Carolina, Yankee Stadium, vg+. 1951 at Pitt, ex-m+. 1951 at Penn, ex. 1955 at Penn, vg-ex. Coached by Frank Leahy, the undefeated 1949 Notre Dame team won the national championship. All but the 1951 team finished in the AP top five. Notable individuals pictured are Elmer Layden, Leahy, Leon Hart, Jim Martin, Bob Williams, Jim Mutscheller, Lou Rymkus, Creighton Miller, Bernie Crimmins, Moose Krause, and Paul Hornung.
Winning Bid $152.
Lot 509. 1968-70 NFL-AFL Gold Round Base Houston Oilers Bobble Head. This figure has the NFL logo between the player’s feet, and there is a round decal on the bottom. The jersey is blue with an “Oilers” decal, and the gray helmet has red, blue and gold stripes. The figure has two tiny hairline cracks (1/8” or less) at the base of the helmet, a chip on the helmet stripes and a couple of very small chips on the jersey. Nice nm doll, and very nice for this issue.
Winning Bid $75.
Lot 510. 100 Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, and Other Periodicals with Football Covers. Vintage collection with most from the 1930s-70s. SI leads in quantity with 70 issues, 20 from the 1950s-60s and 65 from the 1970s or earlier. Among stars on the covers are Bart (Starr), Beban, Bear Bryant 2 covers, Ross Browner, Earl Campbell 2, Csonka, Anthony Davis, Dickerson, Foreman, Gabriel, Calvin Hill, Lombardi, Muncie, Steve Owens, Simpson 2, Sims, Stabler, Staubach, Tarkenton 2 and Unitas. Also, Walter Payton’s first cover (11/22/76) and the WFL cover with Csonka, Warfield and Kiick. Fourteen Life issues, half from the 1930s or 1940s. Notables on covers include Luckman, Justice, Kyle Rote, Lujack in a rare 1940s color cover, and Namath. Look, Time, Boy’s Life, Newsweek, Sport andESPN provide covers with Staubach, Jim Brown, and others. A Saturday Evening Post has a Rockwell cover. As a bonus, eight magazines have articles inside on Hirsch, Blanchard and others. In the March 30, 1963 Post,Ernie Davis writes an illustrated article titled “I’m Not Unlucky.” Battling leukemia, Davis died six weeks later. The magazines, most with labels, average vg to ex.
Minimum Bid $100.
Lot 662. High School Yearbook Featuring Marion Motley, Future Pro HoF Football Star. Motley played scholastic football at McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio. Among the schools opponents were Massilon, coached by Paul Brown. Subsequently, Brown coached Motley at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station during World War II. In 1946, rejoining Brown, Motley became one of the first four players to break pro football’s color barrier. He and Bob Willis joined the Cleveland Browns, coached by Brown, of the new All-America Football Conference. Motley was a Hall of Fame fullback in eight seasons. Besides averaging 5.7 yards per carry during his career, he helped to making Otto Graham an effective passer by providing outstanding blocking. Motley is pictured on Page 166 of the vg-ex 1939 “McKinleyite” yearbook, and his ability as a passer is referred to on another.
Winning Bid $92.
Lot 663. Wood Bleacher Seat from New Orleans’ Tulane Stadium, home of the Tulane Green Wave, the Sugar Bowl for almost 50 years and the New Orleans Saints 1967-74. The final game there was Super Bowl IX in January 1975. Pittsburgh defeated Minnesota, 16-6. With “22” engraved on it, the seat is 17 ¾” wide x about 5 ½” deep and 1 ½” thick. An engraved metal plate says, inside a football, “My Seat from Tulane Stadium, New Orleans, La.” It also says “NCAA, NFL, Sugar Bowl and LHSAA (Louisiana High School Athletic Association).” The stadium was demolished in 1980.
Minimum Bid $50.
Lot 664. 1939 Redskins Program with Heisman Winner Davey O’Brien on the Cover. In 1937, O’Brien succeeded Sammy Baugh as TCU’s quarterback. For the next two seasons, he played the college game better than his predecessor. In 1938, he led the Horned Frogs to the national championship and won the Heisman Trophy. He had less success as a pro with the Eagles. G-vg program with the center spread loose.
Winning Bid $25.
