Ode to Pre-War Football Cardboard

[TanksAndSpartans]

Wow - great Ken Strong items! A Staten Island Stapletons football card - I had no idea that existed.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by DezHood

Wow - great Ken Strong items! A Staten Island Stapletons football card - I had no idea that existed.

Thanks John! The Rogers Peet cards in general are difficult to find. There are four football cards in the set. The Grange is the biggie with Strong #2.

While it's not pre-war, should have posted this baby with my Ken Strong stuff.



jeff

[TanksAndSpartans]

Thanks Jeff. Aren't you forgetting the most obvious Strong card? Let me know if you need me to post it.

[Footballdude]

Just wanna thank everyone for posting these pre-war football items. They are all fabulous. It's these types of items that keep me scouring the antique shops, hoping to score something relatively unknown.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by Footballdude

Just wanna thank everyone for posting these pre-war football items. They are all fabulous. It's these types of items that keep me scouring the antique shops, hoping to score something relatively unknown.

+1

There is a lot of pre-war stuff out there if you hunt for it. Some of it is really cool. One of my collection "subsets" is what I call the "football players in another sport" subset. Here are some examples I have.


George Halas playing for the NY Yankees briefly in 1919. Unfortunately for him but fortunately for football fans, he hurt his hip and felt his baseball career was over so he switched to football.



Walter Camp not only played football but also baseball at Yale. He is the tall fellow in the hat in the back.



I've shown this one before but it fits here. John Heisman as a baseball coach at Buchtel (now called University of Akron).



Nagurski in his wrestling uniform but a football stance. I believe Nags is the only person in both the Pro Football and Pro Wrestling HOF.



Football HOFer Greasy Neale



Ernie Nevers with the St. Louis Browns MLB team.



Football HOFer Benny Friedman playing 3rd base for U of Michigan

jeff

[TanksAndSpartans]

Great stuff! Neale's career is a like a thread that runs through 2 of my favorite pieces of history. He coached Glenn Presnell with the Ironton Tanks who later folded, but had some key players picked up by the Spartans and then later coached the 47-49 Eagles who appeared in 3 title games led by the great Steve Van Buren.

Halas played baseball? That's crazy - I didn't know that. Is that some kind of hand cut card? How rare are those?

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by DezHood

Halas played baseball? That's crazy - I didn't know that. Is that some kind of hand cut card? How rare are those?

That's an old photo. Occasionally you will see photos with fancy edging like this one has. It was done like that on purpose and isn't hand cut.

jeff