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College football season is upon us and anticipation is building for the upcoming Big Game on November 21st to be played in Berkeley, a rivalry that begin in 1892. There is nothing to get you in the m ...

What an absolutely stunning Art Deco football program from the Yale v. Army game of 1928, a game played at Yale. What makes the program exceptional, however, is the imagery on the cover and inside, a ...

There are many reasons people buy and college vintage college football programs: they went to the college or university; they are looking for a relative in one; or, the simply just love the eye appea ...

"The Game," as the Stanford Cal football rivalry is known, was first played in 1892, seven years after Stanford was founded. Its rival was founded 24 years earlier. The teams meet every year, and alt ...

During the first intercollegiate football game Princeton v. Rutgers played in 1869, the sole suggestions of a uniform were the turbans on the heads of the Rutgers players. In all other respects all t ...

Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the United States is featured in several college football programs from 1935 to 1940. Ford was educated at the University of Michigan, where he played on the foo ...

Whoever was responsible for producing Dartmouth Football programs in 1981 had class and style. Recent covers have become bland and the schools take the easy way out by simply putting images of player ...

Before George Clooney played a letterhead, college football program had a rich history of depicting real leather-heads on program covers.

This vintage University of Connecticut v. Delaware football program cover illustration was done by Joe Watson Little and is one of the best ever produced for a college football program. Little was a ...

Thanks to one of our readers, this program was brought to our attention recently. Auctioned off in May 2007 for almost $24,000. The description below is from the Heritage Galleries sale catalog.It is ...

Bobby Kennedy played football for Harvard in 1945, 1946 and 1947 Harvard Programs. His picture can be seen in Harvard program from this period, making them more collectable and valuable than other pr ...

An exceptional college football program is the 1905 Thanksgiving Day game featuring Penn v. CornellCornell was coached by Glenn ‘Pop’ Warner, very early on in his long and legendary coaching career, ...

It would be difficult for a college in the United States to have a better pedigree than Penn. The University of Pennsylvania was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1740. Franklin was frequently used by ...

The words of Douglas MacArthur, "Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that, upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory," are etched on the walls of the gymnasi ...

Princeton’s mascot is the product of an early identification with the colors orange and black and with the beast itself.It is recorded that the Class of 1869 adopted orange as the class colors in hon ...

Army v. Navy is one of the great rivalries in college football. The game has had a long association with the city of Philadelphia. 80 games have been played in Philadelphia:at Municipal/JFK Stadium: ...

We thought this Yale Record from 1951 captures the spirit of the Yale-Princeton football rivalry very well:Princeton v. Yale is one of the oldest rivalries in college football, dating back to 1873.We ...

Princeton v. Yale is one of the oldest rivalries in college football, dating back to 1873. The first six times the teams met they played under early football rules which are not like today’s rules. B ...

We have previously written about vintage football programs done by talented and well known illustrators, namely, John Held, Jr., Winslow Williams, Willard Mullin, Ellison Hoover and Gib Crockett. Not ...

It took us a while to stumble upon this, John Wayne played college Football for U.S.C. in the 1920s. As a collector of Stanford Football Programs, it was a treat to find him in this Stanford v. U.S.C ...

In anticipation of this year’s 130th playing of “The Game” we look back at the 1974 football program. 1974 featured the “Real Centennial” and Harvard issued a Souvenir Edition program. The program f ...

Early college football games brought crowds that are in general much better dressed than those that attend the games today. Case in point is the cover of the Harvard-Yale Game from 1903 pictured belo ...

The Army v. Navy Football Program 1922, a game played at Franklin Field, Philadelphia has one of the coolest Army-Navy program covers of all times, showing an Art Deco era female between a cadet and ...

Jackie Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players ever. His number, 42, has been retired in perpetuity by every team in Major League Baseball. He won the Rookie of the Year award in 1947 when ...

The first Ivy League college football program is the 1956 program issued for Dartmouth vs. The University of Pennsylvania. The game was held at Franklin Field, Philadelphia on October 6, 1956.Balderd ...

We know the first game between ivy league schools when when Columbia met Yale on November 16, 1872 at Hamilton Park near New Haven, Connecticut.As far as the first program printed for a football game ...

Everyone knows Lou Gehrig as one of the greatest baseball players to ever live. What most people don’t know is that Gehrig also briefly played football while attending Columbia University. Gehrig is ...

Joe Paterno, the legendary and now infamous Penn State football coach played his college football at Brown University between 1946 and 1949.A picture of Paterno from the 1948 Yale program:We have a n ...

As collectors and dealers in old football programs we love the thrill of a new discovery. So it was recently when we stumbled upon a program for sale on eBay for a Rutgers v. Yale Football Program fr ...

The Army Navy game is one of the country's classic rivalries: "America's Game," a natural rivalry that started in 1890. Our interest is in the programs put together to memorialize each game and there ...

This vintage 1948 Harvard v. Dartmouth football program has an interesting cover illustration. Dartmouth’s mascot at the time was the Indian. The theme for this Harvard home game program cover was th ...

This is the third time we have taken up this subject, which is football games played between Stanford and U.C. Berkeley played under Rugby rules rather than traditional American Football rules.There ...

College football cheer leading is believed to have been created at the University of Minnesota in 1898. Their first group of six cheerleaders were men. Like the horse and buggy, this tradition is dis ...

Famous artists have illustrated college football programs periodically over the years. One of the better known was Russell Patterson. A celebrated and prolific American cartoonist, illustrator and sc ...

Army Navy is one of the oldest rivalries in college football – dating back to 1890, when the teams first met at West Point, pictured below:In addition to being one of the oldest rivalries in the spor ...

Our future 37th President Richard Nixon played football while attending Whittier College. This nice 1932 Whittier vs. La Verne College program features Tricky Dick as a player. He is listed as #29 an ...

We are always amazed at the prices vintage collegiate board games fetch. Our latest example is no different. This version is slightly different than the previous version of the Yale Princeton gam ...

Cover illustrations have a rich history of craftsmanship and artisan-ship. We have previously written about cover illustrations done by long time Army-Navy program illustrator Gib Crockett. Today, we ...

We have previously written about Stanford v. California (“Big Game”) games played between 1906 and 1914 which were actually played as Rugby games instead of under traditional American football rules.

The classic cover of the Harvard v. Yale Football game from 1920 is one of the most sought after by collectors. The leatherheads in action capture the spirit of football for this era.The program also ...

Actor Tommy Lee Jones was a Harvard Man! In fact, he played on their football team and is pictured in their programs from 1968. Jones played offense guard on the undefeated 1968 Harvard team. He is p ...

The University of Pennsylvania-Cornell University football game used to be a big event. The Penn-Cornell rivalry is one of the oldest in college football, first played in 1893. For a long time the ga ...

The first official Ivy League Football Program was published in 1956 for the Brown v. Columbia game played at Baker Field in New York City.What’s that you say, haven’t I seen Harvard, Yale, Princeton ...

The Harvard-Yale game in 1941 was played at Harvard, thus it should come as no surprise that they are making fun of the Yale traditions of depicting the current captain sitting on the Yale Fence.The ...

We are often asked how much a college football program is worth. The cute answer is what someone will pay for it. Having tracked the prices of vintage college football programs for the last 15 years ...

Looking for a long lost relative or a picture of an aunt, uncle, grand father or great grandfather? A great place to look is in vintage college football programs which almost always include a picture ...

One of the oldest rivalries in college football is Cornell vs. The University of Pennsylvania. They have a rich tradition of facing each other every year since 1893, traditionally on Thanksgiving Day ...

A copy of this rare Harvard v. Yale Football Program sold at auction this month for a bit less than $800. This is nowhere near the price that an 1876 similar style of program sold for early this year ...

This very rare Princeton v. Stevens college program from 1875 sold recently at auction for $600. The program is four pages and this particular program has come apart. Never-the-less, an 1875 program ...

William Haines Hall was an illustrator who lived in the Bay Area. Hall moved to San Francisco from Missouri in 1925 and enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts. He then worked as a fashion ill ...

Ivy League Football Programs sometimes contain people who are recognizable beyond the world of sport. This 1984 Pennsylvania v. Cornell program features a picture of the late Christopher Reeves (Corn ...

There is no way he could have actually kicked the ball given his stance and where his leg is positioned. The most surprised person in the stadium is the kicker based on the expression on his face, “ ...

Our theme this month celebrates the military ahead of July 4th. Prior to America entering the war the Army Navy Program had a relatively happy cover. The cover illustration was done by the f ...

The Stanford Indian mascot had quite a year in 1949. He was featured on the program cover in various activities preparing for opponents.It looks like he is going to be outsmarted in this Stanford v.

As collectors of vintage collegiate material, we are always on the lookout for interesting collections of material. What we find fascinating are the specific areas of focus and the depth to which col ...

We are pleased that Collectableivy.com was featured in the October 2012 issue of Country Living magazine.In an article on collecting titled “The Old College Try,” some of our products were featured i ...

Yale football teams have a tradition of photographing the captain of their football teams sitting on the Yale fence. This tradition dates back to the late 19th century. Some highlights taken from Yal ...

One of the most well known Ivy League football coaches of all time was Columbia’s Lou Little. Little played his college football at Penn. Little coached Columbia for a long time, from 1930 to 1956. P ...

We recently found a new set of items that collectors and aficionados of college football programs will like. Marble coasters based on old football programs.The coasters are made of Botticino Marble;M ...

In celebration of one of the oldest rivalries in collegiate football Stanford v. California football game, we share a great piece of vintage art related to the University of California.Published by t ...

Many college football program of yesteryear were illustrated by those with real talent and the Harvard v. Yale Football Program produced in 1927 is no exception. The nice Jazz Era cover shows leathe ...

Two ivy league football covers of 1983 feature a take on the famous a New Yorker’s view of the world. They are the Yale v. Columbia game and the Harvard v. Cornell program. They feature the mascots f ...

In 1889, Yale Football tackle Andrew Graves purchased a bulldog from a New Haven blacksmith for $5.00. the dog was led across the field before football and baseball games, and was famed for his feroc ...

The 1918 Big Game is one that is sometimes referred to as “The Game That Never Was”. If you are a Stanford fan, you probably wish the game was never played; California won the game 67-0. Stanford-Cal ...

Glenn Scobey Warner, also know as “Pop” Warner was a legendary football coach who coached at six schools in total including Cornell from 1897–1898, 1904–1906 and at Stanford from 1924-1932. He won th ...

The Columbia Lion was adopted as a sports symbol by the Student Board in 1910 following the presentation of a blue and white banner with the motto “Leo Columbaie.” George Brokaw Compton of the Class ...

he original Yale Fence, which ran along the Old College in front of Old Brick Row, was a favorite of many generations of students. Plans for new buildings led to its demise in 1888. The original Yale ...

T. Diedricksen illustrated Yale covers in the early 1920s. Who exactly is this mystery illustrator who signed only with his first initial, but created some of the greatest covers in college football ...

Pins featuring the name and colors or your alma mater are a nice way to show affinity to the college you love and support. We’re not sure how far back collegiate pins go; the first reference we could ...

omeyn Berry was an American sports administrator who created the Cornell motto of “The Big Red.”Nicknamed “Rym,” Berry attended Cornell University, graduating in 1904 and earning a law degree in 1906 ...

Nothing gets the heart of a college grad pumping like the song of their school. An ideal gift for the collegiate alumni who has everything? How about a vintage book of songs from their alma mater. Th ...

With football season upon us once again we offer the following scenes of tailgaiting from college football programs including his idealized version from a Stanford v. California program done in 1965: ...

here were many things forgettable about the 1970s. The oil embargo, the cold war, a disgraced president resigning. But perhaps the worst thing about the ’70s were the hairstyles.Thumbing through a 19 ...

We are often looking for information as we research vintage and historical items and the libraries of various colleges and universities are invaluable. And collectors are often reaching out to us ...

Stanford and U.C. Berkeley have one of the oldest rivalries in college football, dating back to 1892. Ninety years after they first met, they played one of the most classic of all college football ga ...

Donald Rumsfeld as a footballer?Indeed. Before he would go on to fame (or infamy depending on your political point of view), Donald Rumsfeld was featured in an Ivy League Football Program.The 1967 Un ...

One of our favorite periods for Princeton football programs is the 1960s when covers for Princeton Athletic News were illustrated by Bill Canfield. Canfield was sports cartoonist and staff artist at ...

One of the best depictions of the mascots of the Ivy League schools is from this Princeton Cornell football program from 1978. The school's mascots are:  - John Harvard  - The Y ...

F. Earl Christy was an American Artist who lived from 1882-1961. His oeuvre includes many works of art relating to early college football, with a particular emphasis on the Ivy League. This post we f ...

The English plate maker Wedgwood issued a set of commemorative plates for Dartmouth College when it celebrated its bicentennial in 1969. The plates were originally sold at Campion’s, a long-time reta ...

We are pleased to once again be featured in the September, 2015 issue of Country Living Magazine, highlighting our expertise in vintage football programs in their resource guide.We offer a wide range ...

Ballons feature as a motif in Ivy League football programs on and off over the years:Cornell v. Brown 1962:Princeton v. Dartmouth 1974:Princeton Cornell 1966:Dartmouth Yale 1974:We have a nice select ...

We recently acquired a new football program from 1951, Columbia v. Navy, and were drawn to it by the beautiful cover illustration done by the well-known illustrator Willard Mullin.Inside, the program ...

As Frank Sinatra most famously sings, Fly Me To the Moon:Fly me to the moonLet me play among the starsLet me see what spring is likeOn a, Jupiter and MarsIn other words, hold my handIn other words, b ...

Brown is in some ways the most below-the-radar of the Ivy League schools and the hardest to find quality football programs from.The Brown mascot is a bear whose nickname is “Butch Bruno”. For sixty ...

One of the potentially greatest illustrators of college football programs gave us a brief glimpse of his genius and then went on to pursue other interests.Thomas Byrd Epps was born in Dayton Ohio on ...

In anticipation of the summer Olympics and celebrating the history that Harvard men and women have played in the competitions we offer the following delightful images.A classic early 20th Century Har ...

College Football Programs featuring Yale and Columbia during the 1930s and 1940s often took on a transportation theme as seen in this program from 1935:The 1949 program for the game played at Columbi ...

This spectacular cover illustration was done for the Columbia homecoming game played at Baker Field in 1958.The illustration was done by Willard Mullin a famous sports cartoonist and his nickname was ...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act into law in 1958, allowing Alaska to become the 49th state on January 3, 1959. The Army Navy Football Program of 1958 celebrates this hi ...

F. Earl Christy was an American Artist who lived from 1882-1961. His oeuvre includes many works of art relating to early college football, with a particular emphasis on the Ivy League. His works were ...

Cornell’s recognized nickname is Big Red; its colors, Carnelian and White — the shade of carnelian has varied over the years. The team mascot is the Cornell Bear, a cheerleader dressed in bearskin, a ...

Well, new as of 1934. We recently found this vintage advertisement for a new Wedgwood tea set in a University of Pennsylvania v. Yale Football program from 1934. The set was designed by Professor Edw ...

The slogan “For God, For Country, and for Yale” comes from the song Bright College Years which was written in 1881. The final verse of the song is “Where’er upon life’s sea we sail: “For God, for Cou ...

Stanford v. California is one of the oldest rivalries in college football, first played in 1892. A program from their fifth meeting, held in 1897, sold at auction recently for an impressive $3,640.Th ...

Harvard University Band’s bass drum, is towed on wheels and measures approximately 8 feet across. She’s big enough to have her own name, “Bertha”. It is the largest playable natural skin bass drum in ...

Before he went on to wider renown as a political cartoonist, Henry Payne illustrated several Ivy League football program covers, including these two humorous Princeton programs in 1984 and 1985. Payn ...

“The Thrill of Victory…The Agony of Defeat.” I thought of this old ABC Wide World of Sports tagline when looking at this 1926 Stanford v. California Football Program cover recently.The front of the c ...

These beautiful illustrations were created by Bernard Wall and feature women of the Ivy League in idyllic poses.A full-figured Cornell baseball lass:A Columbia University girl yachting:University of ...

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