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78 Different Programs from the First Season (1974) of the World Football League.
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.
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