Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud? You decide ... here's Chapter 10

With these Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud stories I'm turning just a tiny bit of that energy just a few degrees away from cards (we'll still have plenty of them here) for a different kind of cardboard. What am I doing? Simple ... this is an occasional dip into some random ticket lots -- a show and tell showing something small with a story.

This time? This one's going serious vintage as it's a college football ticket that was not in the box.

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and tell me if you think it's a Ticket Stud or a Ticket Dud.

THE DETAILS ...
The Category: College Football
The Events: Army Black Knights at Yale Bulldogs on Oct. 28, 1933
The Results: Army wins, 21-0 (one of seven Army shutouts that year)
The Attendance: 50,000 (estimated) at the Yale Bowl
The Face: $3.30
The Cost (for me): $8

The Ticket Studs (Key Players): I wasn't able to find game details for this one but Army went 9-1 that season and had four players with All-American honors of some type -- halfback Jack Buckler, quarterback Paul Johnson, guard Harvey Jablonsky and end Peter James Kopcsak. Army Coach Garrison H. Davidson was in his first season of his five-year stint that ended with a 35–11–1 record, while Yale went 4-4 for a coach who lasted only one year.

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What's Buzz-worthy: I was doing a deep dive on the site of a paper dealer -- a place selling cards, comics, magazines, books, cut advertisements and tons of other random pieces of history -- and happened upon this one. It's very clean -- at least on the front -- with a back that has a ton of extra paper still attached as it had been pasted into a scrapbook decades ago. I knew that there wouldn't be any real pro player potential here given the era and the teams (the NFL started in 1920 and no names above played), but I liked the look here a lot. Aesthetically, it's a ticket that would look really good in a slab even with a low grade due to the back. Would it have been nicer for it to be a year where some names have larger places in the history books? Sure, but it wouldn't be $8, either.

Stud or Dud? As with everything, it's in the eye of the beholder. For me and for that price, I liked it ... I think it's a cool Stud of a ticket. I've seen mangled modern tickets with higher prices, too. What will I do with it? It'll go into a box with all my other oddball tickets and stuff.

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