Page 1 of 2
The First Issue of CC
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:49 am
by Ken Crippen
For those interested, I have posted a full version of the very first issue of "The Coffin Corner" on the PFRA website. You will see several redactions, which are the personal addresses of the people listed in the issue.
http://profootballresearchers.com/coffi ... n1Full.pdf
Re: The First Issue of CC
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:12 pm
by JohnR
Redactions, redactions, REDACTIONS! I'm so sick of trying to glean info from redactions!!!
Re: The First Issue of CC
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 10:13 am
by NWebster
Re: The First Issue of CC
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 10:10 pm
by TanksAndSpartans
Thanks Ken - do you have the hard copy - in the comic book world, the #1 issues are worth quite a bit
I've seen that logo before on eBay - sometimes the old issues come up for sale.
Re: The First Issue of CC
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 7:22 am
by Ken Crippen
TanksAndSpartans wrote:Thanks Ken - do you have the hard copy - in the comic book world, the #1 issues are worth quite a bit
I've seen that logo before on eBay - sometimes the old issues come up for sale.
Unfortunately, not. Bob left me the PFRA archives when he passed and it was not in there. We got this scan from the HOF.
Re: The First Issue of CC
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:33 pm
by TanksAndSpartans
Too bad, maybe someday one will surface. It was a good read. I recognized one of the players on the All-Star team as having a football card - Doggie Trenchard.
Re: The First Issue of CC
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:02 pm
by sluggermatt15
Thanks for posting, Ken. This is an interesting piece of history. It's great to look back on the old days.
Re: The First Issue of CC
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:40 pm
by ChrisBabcock
George Bozeka had copies of this at the recent Buffalo area PFRA meeting. What I found interesting was that the CC actually preceded the founding of the PFRA. I always thought it was the other way around.... As in, the organization was founded and then someone said “Hey, we need a newsletter!”
Re: The First Issue of CC
Posted: Fri May 03, 2019 9:55 am
by TanksAndSpartans
The article about the 1898 All-Star game mentions Princeton and Penn styles and not knowing what this meant, I asked a college football expert. Just wanted to share his reply with the group because I thought the formations were pretty cool.
The jist of his reply is the Princeton style brought ends into the backfield:
- _ends_back.jpg (40.79 KiB) Viewed 16038 times
And George Woodruff, Yale Grad and later Penn coach devised "Guards Back":
- _guards_back.jpg (26.49 KiB) Viewed 16038 times
Re: The First Issue of CC
Posted: Fri May 03, 2019 12:55 pm
by rhickok1109
TanksAndSpartans wrote:The article about the 1898 All-Star game mentions Princeton and Penn styles and not knowing what this meant, I asked a college football expert. Just wanted to share his reply with the group because I thought the formations were pretty cool.
The jist of his reply is the Princeton style brought ends into the backfield:
_ends_back.jpg
And George Woodruff, Yale Grad and later Penn coach devised "Guards Back":
_guards_back.jpg
That is cool stuff. "A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges," by A.A. Stagg and H.L. Williams (1893) is full of diagrams like that. Of course, that was before the offense was required to have at least 7 players on the line of scrimmage and backs were allowed to be moving forward when the ball was snapped.
https://ia600904.us.archive.org/9/items ... agiala.pdf
