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DeWitr Filli are mildly diu retic sad kelp flttti out aawaatea iim left bv tint tits kidaeyi. DeWitt't fill may be juit what yon BCC4 IO rCOCT Editors Note: The idea for a professional football hall Canof fame was first advanced through the pages of the ton (Ohio) Repository. Chuck Such, coauthor of this artiNacle and sports editor of the Repository, assisted the tional Football League in formulating final plans, and citizens of Canton contributed $Q0,000 to construct the new "action" museum dedicated to pro football. job AS director of the National Profes- MYsional Football PROMETOl VIOi: " - j Preliminary model of Hall of Fame shows football motif. W00MI (i - Miiiuif bjuim When a boy Hall of Fame is a dream for somebody who likes those sentimental yarns that sport always seems to spawn. -- Red- Since I left as general manager of the Washington skins to take this post I've been on one of the biggest treasure hunta in sports history. I've traveled the country foohunting for items which have historical ties with pro varitballuniforms of the old greats, early trophies, and ous "firsts" in the evolution of the game. It's funny, but you find mementos as much by luck as woman bedded down her by diligence. About a year ago, a the newspaper. dog with an old sweater, then began to read of She saw an item saying I was looking for memorabilia Jim Thorpe, the great Indian athlete. She remembered that when she was a girl, Jim had given her a sweater awarded him at Carlisle, the Indian trade school. to a ribbon Always great with kids, Jim had pointed sewn in the sweater by an Indian girl and said: "That's decfor good luck. Never remove it" That was a couple of ades ago. Where was the sweater now? Why, of course Proftitiond football history Pro Football's Hall of Fame the dog was sleeping on it! That's how. I got the Thorpe sweater for our display. It still has tb ribbon sewn in The Hall of Fame will open with big ceremonies next of Saturday, Sept 7, when we'll also install 17 members footpro the Hall, all prominent in founding present-da- y ball. But the Hall isn't just displays of old sweaters and Electronic trophies. It's what we call an "action" museum. audio and visual devices will allow you to hear or see those fagames of the past and learn exactly how great were. mous We built the Hall of Fame in "Canton, Ohio, because it is the cradle of pro football as we know it today. On Sept. 17, 1920, a group of men sat on the running boards of cars in the Hupmobile showroom in Canton and planned the first league (which since has become the National Football League) with Jim Thorpe as president Of course, which they played for pay before 1920, especially in Ohio, is a real hotbed of the game, but this was the beginning football. The people of Canton donated $400,-00- 0 of to build the shrine, and the city provided a it old-time- rs big-leag- ue 14-acr- e. park for its site. Some of the items I've collected dramatize how pro football has grown since then. I have the sales papers of the Duluth (Minn.) Eskimos, for instance. The owner sold the team for $1. Today if you wanted to buy a pro team (and million! could find a seller), you'd need about $3 Those Duluth Eskimos, incidentally, have provided me with some of my best finds. Imagine coming across a giant trunk painted in gay colors and opening it to find football outfits and a dismantled female mannequin iron-ribbed recall the famed Canton Bulldog,, fir it ehamptom (left), and the great Jim Thorpe, has a man's job... It can seem mighty tough, especially If he's away from home for the first time. Give him a link with home by mak- Ing sure the USO reaches him. Hell be m little leas lonely, a lot more m re of himself. He's your Investment in freedom. 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