Thread: If the Redskins change their name, how will it affect the collecting hobby?
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Old 10-03-2014, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by HalChaseCollector View Post
Wrong wrong wrong. This is from a Washington post article

The proof is in a July 6, 1933, edition of the Hartford Courant, which Witten unearthed after the sports Web site MMQB tipped him off about it.

The edition includes a short Associated Press dispatch quoting Marshall saying: “The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.”

Instead, Marshall explains, he gave up “Braves” to avoid confusion with a Boston professional baseball team of the same name. He apparently picked the Redskins name so he could keep the existing Native American logo.
That sure contradicts this article from the July 18th, 1933 issue of the Portsmouth Times.



Who is "wrong wrong wrong" now?
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