Gloversville High School Football Team 1930s Signed Hide Robert Saxy Marshall

ONE OF A KIND RARE HIDE SIGNED BY I BELIEVE MEMBERS OF THE GLOVERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM FROM 1928 - 1931 AND ESPECIALLY DEAR TO GLOVERSVILLE IS ROBERT "SAXY" MARSHALL(AFFECTIONATELY DUBBED GLOVERSVILLE'S "MR FOOTBALL") WHO SIGNED THIS IN THE MIDDLE(PIC 2) - I BELIEVE THIS WAS SIGNED OVER THE COURSE OF A NUMBER OF YEARS BECAUSE MY GRANDFATHER MILTON FRYE SIGNED THIS AT LEAST 4 TIMES IN DIFFERENT SPOTS AND HE WAS A 1931 GRADUATE OF GLOVERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL - MANY REFERENCES THROUGH THE WORDS " PI PHI " AND " TRI PI " & SYMBOLS ALLUDING TO SUCH IN SEVERAL PLACES USUALLY UNDER PEOPLES NAMES - I ASSUME THIS WAS A HIGH SCHOOL FRAT BUT THE ONLY THING I FOUND WAS THIS NAME BEING ASSOCIATED WITH FEMALE FRATERNITIES - I LOOKED FOR DAVE SMUKLER'S NAME ON HERE BUT DID NOT FIND IT UNLESS IT'S ONE OF THE FADED SIGNATURES - HE PLAYED HIS SENIOR YEAR (1930-31) WITH THE GLOVERSVILLE 11 AFTER MOVING BACK FROM FROM NEW JERSEY - HE WENT ON TO STAR FOR THE TEMPLE OWLS ACCOUNTING FOR ALL OF THEIR POINTS IN THE INAUGURAL SUGAR BOWL AGAINST TULANE - LATER HE WAS SIGNED BY AND PLAYED FOR THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES BUT I DIGRESS - THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT NAMES SIGNED ON THIS SUCH AS ROBERT "SAXY" MARSHALL, BOB WHITE, AL SPENCER, MILT FRYE, EV KING, DON HUXLEY, RICHARD WALRATH, WR HELLWIG JR, ARNOLD "CHIPIE" BENNETT, S EVANS, GENE PHILLIPS, ARNOLD BENNETT, SID COHEN, HAROLD H LESLIE, GUS FARTHING, GEORGE, E LUCAS, TEX HOBBS, H LESLIE, & OTHERS THAT I CAN'T MAKE OUT - GREAT PIECE OF GLOVERSVILLE HISTORY! - I sell ALL of my products in.

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