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Preliminary model of Hall of Fame shows football motif.
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,