1888-1910 Large WaterMelon Football - Past Time Sports

Here is the Rarest and most extinct of the antique footballs. This 1880-1910 style WaterMelon Football is much larger than any football in the modern era. It was used exclusively for the earliest games of football, where there was no passing. Where there was only laterals and dropkicking. It was the large ball used in the famous flying wedge days. Much larger than any other football - with a bending length of over 15 inches and with a large circumference of 25 inches around. These type balls were used in the 1880s even before the leather football helmet. This rare ball was eliminated around 1913 with the first NCAA passing football changes that made the ball smaller for pasing. But , the above pictured large, beautiful, antique style football is of fine leather and hand stitched and hand sewn . Use it to dropkick and latteral but remember No Passing !!