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Football Treasures: Artifacts from the 1880s to the Present

Explore football in the Smithsonian's collections with items dating from the late 1880s to the present, including sheet music, memorabilia, football inspired art, and unusual artifacts.


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North Carolina vs. Duke football ticket

Football Boosters / Fairfax, H.S.

Air football helmet

Lithograph of football player Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch

University of Pennsylvania Quakers Football

National Football League 1970 Schedule printed in Braille

Ticket for the Baltimore Ravens vs Washington Redskins football game, 2008

Ticket for the Baltimore Ravens vs Washington Redskins football game, 2005

Football

Football Program for Washington Redskins vs. New York Giants, 1937

Football Program, N.Y. Giants vs. Chicago Cardinals, 1936

Black and white stamp with etching of a man in a football uniform holding a helmet at his right side

20c Jim Thorpe single

Football presented to Bear Bryant after becoming the "winningest" coach in NCAA football history

Howard Cassady

Football Program, New York Giants vs. Cleveland Browns, 1958

North Carolina vs. Wake Forest Football ticket

Philadelphia Eagles Button

Philadelphia Eagles

Harold Jackson

Football used during Princeton Football Games, 1910-1912

1941 Army-Navy Football Program

Autographed Photograph of Football Referee Red Friesell

portrait of leadville football team

Football player with face guard

Electric football board game

Sam Cunningham Football Card

Football, drop kick

Pennant for Wilberforce University football

South Carolina State University football jersey worn by Donnie Shell

Photograph of men playing football

Black and White Reproduction Lithograph of Football Player Charlie Conerly

Black and White Reproduction Lithograph of Football Player Red Grange

Football cleat worn by Lou Groza of the Cleveland Browns

Princeton University Football Shoulder Pads, used by T. T. Pendleton

Photograph of John Steuart Curry sketching a football practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison


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