It's Football Season! Show your vintage football memorabilia

[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.

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by perezfan

The materials, style and construction of the statue are strikingly similar to the Muller Basdball 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 Awatd. 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.

Only a matter of time until somebody objects to the all white subjects depicted on the trophy and they replace it with something more race ambiguous.

Just kidding (but sadly I wouldn't be shocked)...Great piece Mark.

Rob

[yankeesjetsfan]

Great stuff guys. I'll throw up some pics of my few vintage Jets items later in the week.

Mike