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John Smith's astonishing collection of 461 members of the College Hall of Fame all authenticated by James Spence and encapsulated by SGC.
Lot 415. John Smith's astonishing collection of 461 members of the College Hall of Fame all authenticated by James Spence and encapsulated by SGC. Most are blank 3 x 5s, almost all have the players name typed at the top and their teams starting with their college typed at the bottom. Anything otherwise, or addition, is noted on the biographical list available, as is anything other than a name signature in ink. Some of the cards have a tiny rubber stamped date on the rear in the lower right corner showing when the card was signed. The highlights of the collection includes players such as Ernie Davis, Knute Rockne, Frank Loria, Guy Chamberlain, Joe Guyon, Paddy Driscoll, AA Exendine, John Maulbetsch, Bennie Friedman, Paddy Driscoll and Pop Warner. There are 21 HOF’ers from Notre Dame (Hunk Anderson, Wayne Millner, etc.), 17 HOF’ers from Michigan (Fritz Crisler, Kipke, Bump Elliott, Ron Johnson, Harry Newman, Schembacher, Ernie Vick, etc.), 13 HOF’ers from Army (Earl Blaik, Bill Carpenter, Ed Garbisch, Harvey Jablonski, John McEwan, Elmer Oliphant, AM Weyand, etc, 11 from Navy (Slade Cutter, Tom Hamilton, Frank Winkhorst , Ron Beagle, etc), 11 HOF’ers from Alabama (Johnny Mack Brown, Paul Bryant, John Cain, J Pooley Hubert, etc), 10 HOF’ers from California (Stanley Barnes, Babe Horrell, Matt Hazeltine, etc.), 2 HOF’ers from Harvard (Hamilton Fish and Endicott Peabody), 5 HOF’ers from Yale (Pudge Heffelfinger, Hank Ketchum, Bill Mallory, Amos Alonzo Stagg and Mal Stevens, 14 HOF’ers from U Southern California (Johnny Baker, Howard Jones, Mike McKeever, etc) and 12 HOF’ers from Stanford. In addition there are 46 signatures from players in both the Collegiate and Professional Hall of Fames, The balance are divided into eras, with players who played in 1910 and prior (13), players who played from 1911-1919 (26), players who played from 1920-1929 (26), players who played from 1930-1939 (51), players who played from 1940-1949 (41), players who played from 1950-1959 (47), players who played from 1960 on (44), and a group of 44 Coaches from schools other than the above. Detailed lists of the players in all categories mentioned above, which includes details on each card or an alphabetical list is available on request and there are several other scans on our web site.
Winning Bid $15,197.
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