Today's Tidbit... Getting A Head Of The Game

I feel comfortable claiming to be in the top one percent of goofballs who look at one-hundred-year-old yearbooks and sports pages for information and images on old football teams. That experience allows me to note that newspaper and publicity folks in the Teens and Twenties liked to create collages of teams comprised of the players’ faces. The layout allowed the squeezing of many faces in limited space. Here’s an example.

The 1918 Mare Island Marines lost to Great Lakes in the 1919 Rose Bowl.

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