It's Football Season! Show your vintage football memorabilia

[Bill Rayburn]

Here are some of my football prints.

[Bill Rayburn]

A few more.

[effe]

1913 Milwaukee Normal School (now UW-Milwaukee)


1931 Packers/Dodgers ticket


1933 Packers/Giants program (only Packers home game ever played at Milwaukee's Borchert Field)

[perezfan]

WOW... amazing stuff, everyone. Bill... What an incredible collection of Football Prints.... just insane!

Here is a pretty cool early figural piece.... the original circa 1880 prototype statue used to create the Walter Camp Award. Perhaps not as iconic as the Heisman, but they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

[Huysmans]

Hey Mark,

I love it! Its visually stunning.
Do you know the artist?

[Bill Rayburn]

Great piece Mark...I assume by being a "prototype" it is one of a kind? And thanks for the comments on the prints

[perezfan]

Perhaps "prototype" was the wrong word. Although I've never seen another example, I suppose others were likely made. Maybe it was a popular figural piece in its day. Not sure how many (if any) others have survived, but it's got to be a very small number.

The materials, style and construction of the statue are strikingly similar to the Muller Baseball Statues of 1868 (Pitcher and Striker). I do not know the artist, or how this piece was selected to be the subject of the Walter Camp Award. I haven't taken the time to do the research. But regardless, it's pretty amazing that this same figural is still in use to this day.

[vintagesportscollector]

Originally Posted by Bill Rayburn

A few more.

Fantastic prints collection Bill, Love it!

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

Fantastic prints collection Bill, Love it!

I have the one of the player in red football sweater with the ball tucked under his arm...talking to the girl under the goalpost. I believe it's titled "the goal". Have it packed away since my last move. Haven't checked it out in a while. Do you have any history on that one?

[Bill Rayburn]

Thanks Joe, Rob I don't have additional info on that piece. I have seen it cropped and in different publications. Most that I have seen have the title you mentioned.

[Showdawg]

Just obtained this.....:-)

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by Showdawg

Just obtained this.....:-)

Very, very cool! You going to wear it for luck when you watch your Browns?

[cmoore330]

Originally Posted by Bill Rayburn

Here are some of my football prints.

That print collection is incredible! Thank you for sharing, and please leave a few for the rest of us!