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Antique Style WaterMelon Footballs
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 !!
Price: $106.99
1912-1930 Antique WaterMelon Football - Past Time Sports 1912-1930 waterMelon Football-Here is a great football that has become extinct. It was larger then todays modern day ball as it had more girth. It was the first ball used for passing in the game of football. One of its famous first uses was when Knute Rockne brought the passing game to football, for real, when he as a player, brought the forward pass to unknown Notre Dame and used it to beat nationally known and favored Army -35 to 13. That was the year when unknow ND entered the spotlight forever and the forward pass began its climb to being an incredible football weapon. Approx-13 long bending width 23 circumference. So in 1913 the passing game was born and the watermelon football road supreme .This early football was a handfull to grasp and pass. This is a beautiful replica football , handcrafted and hand sewn by Past Time Sports. Specially aged and tanned leather to exactly recapture the rarest of all early footballs. Size ands weight are perfect. Try to wrap your hand around it and throw a pass. You can do it but it is an experience when comparing this old style ball with the streamline look and feel of today's ball. It is made of a old style leather which is specially tanned to give it that museum quality. This ball will send you back to the days of early teens ,twenties and 30s football.
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