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SPORTS e 1 LAW. r f) The new museum for play-for-pay football in Canton, Ohio, is loaded with smiles, sentiment and action mese 1906 uniforms typify old-time displays. By RICHARD McCANN Director of Ho National rrobttional FootboH Hall of Fom as told to Chuck Such hose use on a football team I still can't fathom. We have championship pennants, too, one from the Providence (R.I.) Steamrollers of 1928. In those days, layers on championship squads received gold footballs. Now that's one item I have yet to find to add to the museum. Speaking financially, you've probably heard how the old Itars played for as little as $5 a game. That's true, but here was big money to be had, too. Back before the de flated dollar, Jacksonville, Fla., paid Ernie Nevers $15,000 or signing a contract. Two games later the club went Bankrupt, but Nevers had the cash. College coaches played pro football on Sundays to pick lip extra money. Knute Rockne is associated with Notre ame, but graybeards in Massillon, Ohio, will tell you: "Rockne? oh, you mean the fellow who played with the aid pro Tigers." Of course, the Nesser brothers, great players for the Columbus (Ohio) Panhandles, will dis pute this. They played pro games against Rockne six times , in a row, and each time Rockne was on a different team! But in the Hall of Fame, we have Rockne's helmet, and it's one he used at Massillon. WE also have probably the most extensive collection of old team photos in the world. But not all the star play ers are shown ; some were camera-shy in those days. You see, on Saturdays they were simon-pure amateurs at some col lege and aiming for Walter Camp's AU-American list On Sundays they were miles away butting heads for bucks. Guy Chamberlain was a college coach who used to play end for the Canton Bulldogs to fatten his wallet Against Can ton's great rivals, the Massillon Tigers, he found to his astonishment that the player opposite him was his star college lineman, a six-days-a-week amateur. Although we've accumulated enough historical items to give visitors a completely new show every six months, we're still looking for relics of the era of Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, and Jim Thorpe. I want two Thorpe items in particular. ONE 13 the shoulder pads Thorpe wore. Many opponents claimed that Thorpe had sheet-metal or iron ribs fitted into them; no man, they said, could hit as hard as Thorpe did with just human muscle. But Jack Cusack, now a Texas oil millionaire but once Thorpe's mentor, denies this. He bought Thorpe's equipment and says it was the same as other players used. Everybody is pretty sure the equip ment still exists, but nobody knows where. And the other Thorpe treasure we' want is his collec tion of Olympic medals. The medals were taken away from him when it was discovered he had once played baseball for $50. Football is very proud of Thorpe and the role he played in developing the game, and we'd give those medals proper honor. Once we received a tip they were in a Wash ington, Pa., shop where they had once been displayed, and we wasted no time in trying to track them down. Unfor tunately, all we found was the placard on which they had once been mounted. Somebody else had long since taken the medals. We wonder where they are today and how we can get them for Pro Football's Hall of Fame. it president of major pro league. Thorpe carries bail for Canton against Columbus Panhandles in 1919 game (right). vi &mz-. y -? -if t ' J . Q 1 $ gunm By PERIODIC PAIN Every monch Deborah was sunk hy fmntthnal mtnslrmal dtttrtu. 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