Ode to Pre-War Football Cardboard

[obiwin]

The only one I might question is your guess on Hull.

(My understanding is you believe Hull to be in the dark shirt with his right arm around Bacon.)

Hull's face seems rounder to me in the 1881 and 1883 photos than your 1882 photo. Outside of that, it does sort of look like him though.

[orly57]

Here are mine:

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Beecher

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Beecher

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Bronko

[cfhofer]

Great group of cards. Thanks for sharing.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by obiwin

The only one I might question is your guess on Hull.

(My understanding is you believe Hull to be in the dark shirt with his right arm around Bacon.)

Hull's face seems rounder to me in the 1881 and 1883 photos than your 1882 photo. Outside of that, it does sort of look like him though.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I see what you mean. I'm not very good at matching faces on pictures so can't really tell.

jeff

[TanksAndSpartans]

Nice cards! I'd like to see the Hinkey and Nagurski next to each other. Made me think of a type collection where the one card of each type was the "best player" in the set - completely subjective and you'd probably want a rule like no duplicating players, but it would be interesting to see what people came up with.

[jefferyepayne]

Imperial sized cabinet photos of the 1929 and 1930 World Champion Green Bay Packers. These two team photos are stacked with HOFers and All-Pros ... Lambeau, Blood, Dilweg, Michalske, Hubbard, Lewellen, Herber. Lambeau even played in a game in 1929 so he's listed as a player/coach!





jeff

[cfhofer]

Picked up a nice group of 1886 Yale football cabinet photos. I've never seen the second photo before.

[buchner]

see you got the seller to end early. I was concerned with the top photo because Geo. Watkinson's head from Yale's 1885 team photo is superimposed over Hefflefinger's head (highest one in back row, head much larger than the others). Is it cut into the photo or copied that way? The second photo might be 1885 but its missing many of the top players except Gill and it looks like captain Peters? Anyway, nice photos.

[cfhofer]

Good call..the second photo is from 1885. Stagg is to the left of Peters (captain) and Woodruff is to the right of Gill.

Yes, George Watkinson died from fatigue/malaria immediately after playing the 1886 Yale-Princeton game. Since he was a starter and key player it looks like Pach Bros took his 1885 photo, reversed it and glued it over another player. It was professionally done and was likely a tribute to Watkinson.