Albersheim's 2016 May Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/14/2016
Offered is killer National Football League letterhead with Carl Storck listed as President of the NFL. Storck was a co-founder of the National Football League, as well as the founding owner of the Dayton Triangles. He was also the Triangles coach from 1922 until 1926. Storck served as the secretary-treasurer of the NFL from 1921 to 1939. Upon the death of Joe Carr, he served as president of the National Football League. Citing ill health, Storck only held the title of president until 1941.
Also listed are the cities that had NFL franchises at the time. Listed on the excecutive committee (Storck), L.H. Joannes (the President of the Green Bay Packers), Charles W. Bidwell (Chicago Cardinals owner), Bert Bell (owner of the Eagles and later the head of the NFL), and George Preston Marshall.
This typed letter is written to William Halloran who was an early NFL referee and one of Shorty Ray’s favored men. Storck writes to Halloran regarding an officials meeting in Cleveland, Ohio later in the month. Proxy/secretarially signed “Carl Storck.”