Today's Tidbit... Offensive Formations in 1955

Regular readers know I collect football-related advertising premiums and regularly use them in stories. Besides being inexpensive, they typically summarize the previous season, project the coming season, detail the upcoming schedule, and add bonus information of various sorts. Overall, they provide point-in-time summaries of the state of football for a given year, and many offer great commercial art of the period.

Most advertising premiums were small giveaway brochures given to any customer or ne...