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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

So below is the pressbook from The Big Game, the 1936 George Nichols Jr. college football sports melodrama ("Eight all-American stars.. in the plays that made them famous! See them in this thrilling drama of the gridiron!"; "You'll see EIGHT All-American stars on ONE football team!"; "Here's the most exciting football drama in years...featuring EIGHT All-American players in the plays that made them famous!") starring Phillip Huston, James Gleason, June Travis, Bruce Cabot, Andy Devine, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, John Arledge, Ward Bond, and C. Henry Gordon. Also starring in the movie are real life football players Jay Berwanger ("U. of Chicago"), William "Bill" Shakespeare ("Notre Dame"), Robert "Bobby" Wilson ("Southern Methodists"), James 'Monk' Moscrip ("Stanford"), Irwin "King Kong" Klein ("N.Y.U."), Gomer Jones ("Ohio State U."), Robert 'Bones' Hamilton ("Stanford"), and Frank Alustiza ("Stanford")

Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and an interior spread:

 

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is fully searchable!).