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Collectors score with old bank Moving cast-iron figures re-create action of early football games; CURRENT PRICES Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices may vary. Cookbook: "Swift's Little Cook," Swift & Co., lift chef's hat to reveal recipes, 36 pages, 1900: $25. Fiesta fruit bowl: chartreuse, individual, 51 2 inches: $30. Advertising bookmark: No. 1 Penny Chocolate Candies, yellow with red trim, celluloid, circa 1890: $55. Depression glass tumbler: pink, Queen Mary pattern, footed, 5 inches: $60. Harold Lloyd doll: jointed, celluloid, flesh color, right hand holding white straw hat, Japan, 1920s, 4 inches: $75. Wiener Werkstatte figurine: dachshund, curled up and sleeping, white glaze, gray collar, circa 1910, 9 inches: $290. Disneyana: salt and pepper shakers, mushrooms from "Fantasia," Vernon Kiln, 1940s, 5 inches: $300. Cocktail dress: black lace over nude silk bodice, Mainbocher, Size 12, 1950s: $410. Case clock: Tall, eight-day, date and second hand, oak, Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1812, 81 inches: $2,200. Gustav Stickley writing desk: No. 720, oak, pigeonholes, two drawers, 1910, 30 inches: $2,760.
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American football, which evolved from soccer and rugby, was
developed on college campuses in the Northeast beginning in 1880.
The first intercollegiate "football" game, between Rutgers and
Princeton in 1869, actually had been a soccer match. Early games
were violent and filled with excessive pushing and shoving. They
attracted crowds of fans. Some 40,000 attended a game in 1893.
James Bowen, a mechanical-bank designer for J&E Stevens of
Cromwell, Conn., created a cast-iron footba...
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