Description: This card is not perfect but it is a rarity and a beautiful card to add to any football collection. Please look at the photos before submitting an offer. About this card/set - an American football card, though, even if you saw one, you might be inclined to dismiss it. Instead of referring to the sport depicted as football, it is instead called ‘Football – Rugby’. That could lead collectors to classify it as a rugby card instead of American football but it clearly depicts the latter, as evidenced by the uniforms/equipment. The card does not provide the names of the teams shown, though some sleuthing could potentially reveal that information, I suppose. And even the scene shown is a bit jumbled with bodies all over the place. Really, though, it’s a fantastic image of the sport in its earlier days. Now, I suppose the image wouldn’t mean much to a lot of collectors. But I’ve seen enough sets that as soon as I saw it, it immediately became clear — I’d seen this picture before. See, the card was used in a later set issued out of the UK — the 1929(ish) Sports and Games in Many Lands set. Most collectors that are familiar with the set can tell you precisely two things about it. The first is that it contains a Babe Ruth card, which has become somewhat popular in pre-war circles. Ruth is not named on the card but the image certainly pictures him and it’s bought and sold as a Ruth card. Second, they often will refer to it as the Churchman set. Churchman is the tobacco advertisement most commonly seen on the backs but parallel sets were also actually created for British American Tobacco (in 1930) and Edwards/Ringer/Bigg (in 1935 and, like Churchman, an Imperial brand).
Price: 199 USD
Location: Zanesfield, Ohio
End Time: 2024-12-24T13:27:21.000Z
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Type: Sports Trading Card
Sport: Soccer
Card Number: 205
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Season: 1915
