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Editors' Note: The idea for a professional football hall of fame was first advanced through the pages of the Can ton (Ohio) Repository. Chuck Such, coauthor of this arti cle and sports editor of the Repository, assisted the Na tional Football League in formulating final plans, and citizens of Canton contributed tiOO.OOO to construct the new "action" museum dedicated to pro football. MY job as director of the National Profes sional Football Hall of Fame is a dream for somebody who likes those sentimental yarns that sport always seems to spawn. Since I left as general manager of the Washington Red skins to take this post, I've been on one of the biggest treasure hunts in sports history. I've traveled the country hunting for items which have historical ties with pro foot ball uniforms of the old greats, early trophies, and vari ous "firsts" in the evolution of the game. It's funny, but you And mementos as much by luck as by diligence. About a year ago, a woman bedded down her dog with an old sweater, then began to read the newspaper. She saw an item saying I was looking for memorabilia of Jim Thorpe, the great Indian athlete. She remembered that when she was a girl, Jim had given her a sweater award ed him at Carlisle, the Indian trade school. Always great with kids, Jim had pointed to a ribbon sewn in the sweater by an Indian girl and said: "That's for good luck. Never remove it." That was a couple of dec ades ago. Where was the sweater now? Why, of course THE STORY BEHIND Pro Football's Hall of Fame the dog was sleeping on it! That's how I got the Thorpe sweater for our display. It still has the ribbon sewn in it. The Hall of Fame will open with big ceremonies next Saturday, Sept 7, when we'll also install 17 members of the Hall, all prominent in founding present-day pro foot ball. But the Hall isn't just displays of old sweaters and trophies. It's what we call an "action" museum. Electronic audio and visual devices will allow you to hear or see games of the past and learn exactly how great those fa mous old-timers were. We built the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, because it is the cradle of pro football as we know it today. On Sept. 17, 1920, a group of men sat on the running boards of cars in the Hupmobile showroom in Canton and planned the first league (which since has become the National Foot ball League) with Jim Thorpe as president. Of course, they played for pay before 1920, especially in Ohio, which is a real hotbed of the game, but this was the beginning of big-league football. The people of Canton donated $400, 000 to build the shrine, and the city provided a 14-acre park for its site. Some of the items I've collected dramatize how pro foot ball has grown since then. I have the sales papers of the Duluth (Minn.) Eskimos, for instance. The owner sold the team for SI. Today if you wanted to buy a pro team (and could find a seller), you'd need about $3 million! Those Duluth Eskimos, incidentally, have provided me with some of my best finds. Imagine coming across a giant iron-ribbed trunk painted in gay colors and opening it to find football outfits and a dismantled female mannequin Professional football history will recall the famed Canton Bulldogs, first champions (left), and the great Jim Thorpe,
