For you memorabilia guys...

[00Dawg]

My personal Holy Grail arrived in the mail today:
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It looks like someone's grandparent stuck it in a photo album years ago, and they added what I found to be the most interesting tidbit; a play-by-play from the local paper.
I take it to be the 80-year-old predecessor to ESPN's current functionality.

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[The Maroon Pug]

That play-by-play would make an awesome full wall poster

 

[Shmuley]

Wouldn't the Holy Grail be the '41 Orange Bowl program? Rather than the '37 loss to Duquesne?

 

[PointAfter]

My Dad used to chart games like that while listening on the radio in the early 60's. It gave him a visual of the field position and how many yards were actually being gained and lost.

 

[thekimmer]

I've seen this one and many others....

My personal Holy Grail arrived in the mail today:
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It looks like someone's grandparent stuck it in a photo album years ago, and they added what I found to be the most interesting tidbit; a play-by-play from the local paper.
I take it to be the 80-year-old predecessor to ESPN's current functionality.

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Used to work in University Archives as a student worker way back when. At that time they usually had multiple copies of old game programs, dope books, newspaper clippings as well as other assorted memorabilia including student uniforms back during the cadet days. Loved going through that stuff. Also every school president has the papers from his tenure preserved there which I found pretty boring.

 

[00Dawg]

The '41 is a lot more common.

There's almost always one for sale on eBay.

I've only seen 4 of the '37 version. There was one in the display case in the M Club back in the late 90's, one that sold on eBay about a decade ago for $800, another that sold for $1,200 about 7 years ago, and this one (which I didn't pay nearly that much for). I talked with the gentleman who bought the first one on eBay, and he shared that he'd been looking for one for decades, and that the value was driven by how hard it is to find examples from the earliest editions of the major bowls.

I'm pretty sure there's another in a private collection\store in Miami...I called around back during the '14 trip and had one hit, but the guy wouldn't even discuss what he had from the '37 game as he didn't want to sell it. It sounds like State might have more, and I would expect the same for Duquesne.

 

[Shmuley]

Interesting. Good info.