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Issue: How Champions Play Football #[nn]
Publication Date: August 1948
 
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Publisher: FlagStreet and Smith
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Indicia Publisher: Street & Smith Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/03/1948
Volume:
Pages: 100
ISBN:
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Price: $0.30 CAD
$0.25 USD
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Content Items: 25 (14 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 775 Lidgerwood Ave., Elizabeth, New Jersey. Copyright 1948 in U.S.A. and Great Britain by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. General and executive offices: 122 East 42nd Street, New York 17, New York.

On-sale date from the publication date listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 2, Part 1B, Number 2. Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals. July-December 1948. Copyright registration number AA93345. Copyright renewed by The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. on October 22, 1975. Copyright renewal number R615624 per U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July - December.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint inerior
Binding: softcover square bound; stapled interior
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Also Inside Tips by Top Experts on *Golf *Hockey *Soccer *Tennis *Skiing *Swimming *Football *Basketball

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: sports
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Jack Kramer (photograph of); Rocky Graziano ? (photograph of); Tony Zale ? (photograph of)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Page 2 unmarked.

A series of black and white sports photographs. Sports identified tennis, pole vaulting, basketball, American football, boxing, ice hockey, and diving. Pictures a mix of professional and amateur athletes.

Identified including tennis star Jack Kramer, National Hockey League game between the New York Americans and probably the New York Rangers, and a college American football game most likely the University of Oklahoma and Army played on September 28, 1946, at Yankee Stadium in New York City.

The boxing scene might be one of the Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale fights.
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How Champions Play

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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How Champions Play The Editor's Foreword

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as The Editor]
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Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Called "Editor's Forward" on the table of contents/index page. Page 4 unmarked.

Includes the indicia and acknowledgment of the creators who worked on the magazine.

Stated that Alfred M. Klein was a writer nationally known for sports writing, that Clem Boddington was well known nationally for his drawings on sports figures and events, S. Robert Powell was a leading comic book artist and creator of The Shadow and Nick Carter comics, and Floyd Torbert who was known for working on "how-to-do-it" technical drawings of sports activities.
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Index

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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[Introduction] A New Look at Sports

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as The Editor]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Synopsis: The editor talks about how this companion publication to the previous How Champions Play focused on fall and winter sports. They also mention how various sports champions were consulted in the development of each story chapter.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Called "Introduction" in the index/table of contents page. Pages 6-7.

The following sports coaches and athletes offered their expertise for this comic magazine: football coaches Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, University of Pennsylvania's George Munger, Army's Red Blaik, Columbia University's Lou Little, and Stanford's Chuck Shaughnessy; Basketball Association of America (BBA)'s Philadelphia Warriors Joe Fulks and former Harlem Globetrotter and free-throw champion Bunny Levitt; swimming coach Bob Kiphuth of Yale University; hockey player and coach of the American Hockey League's Philadelphia Rockets Phil Hergesheimer and hockey expert Buddy O'Connor; basic material on golf from Sam (Sammy) Snead and Bryon Nelson; and soccer coach Elmer Schroeder of soccer's American League Philadelphia Americans.
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Passing Fancy

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Sid Luckman
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Pages 8-11.
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Throw That Block

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Genres: sports
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Pages: 4
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Bringing 'em Down

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Lou Little
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Pages: 4
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Table of contents lists the title as Bringing 'em Down, Low Little.
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How to Kick a Football

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Genres: sports
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pages 20-25.

The table of contents lists the title as "How to Kick a Football, Mills System".
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The T-Man, Clark Shaughnessy

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Clark Shaughnessy
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Pages 26-33.
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10 Best Plays of 1947

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Genres: sports
Synopsis: Ten individual American football plays popularly used in 1947.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Pages 34-43.

The title comes from the table of contents. The sequence only lists a title-like header listing the university name and the play's name.

The ten plays are Notre Dame's low lateral from Frank Leahy, University of Michigan's fullback spinner from H. O. "Fritz" Crisler, Southern Methodist University's first down play by Matty Bell, University of North Carolina's end around play by Carl G. Snavely, University of Texas' bootleg play by Blair Cherry, Army's best ground gainer by Lieutenant Colonel Earl H. "Red" Blaik, University of Pennsylvania's favorite play of 1947 by George A. Munger, Georgia Tech's throw back pass by Robert Dodd, University of California's mouse trap play by "Pappy" Waldorf, and Columbia's end run - forward pass play by Lou Little.
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How to Play Championship Basketball

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: sports
Character(s): Joe Fulks
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pages 44-50.
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World's Free Throw Champ, Bunny Levitt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ? (main story)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, sports
Character(s): Harold S. "Bunny" Levitt
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Reprint Notes: from Believe It or Not! daily (King Features Syndicate) 1947-02-24 [The daily panel reprinted in a single panel in "Look Who Wants to Play Basketball!" on page 52.]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Pages 51-54.

The title for this sequence only found in the table of contents. Contains two sub-titles, "Look Who Wants to Play Basketball!" and "How You, Too, Can Become a Champion".
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Phantom Phil Hergesheimer "The Rockets' Red Glare"

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Genres: biography, sports
Character(s): Phil Hergesheimer
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Pages 55-59.

The title in the table of contents is "Hockey Hints, 'Phantom' Phil Hergesheimer".
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Buddy O'Connor Pro Hockey's Peerless Playmaker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Frank Boucher (credited)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, sports
Character(s): Herbert William "Buddy" O'Connor; Elmer Lach; Phil Watson; Frank Boucher
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Pages 60-63.

Frank Boucher, then coach of the National Hockey League's New York Rangers, is credited as the writer of the sequence.
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How Champions Play Soccer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: sports
Character(s): Elmer A. Schroeder
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pages 64-70.

The title listed in the table of contents is "How Champions Play Soccer, Elmer A. Schroeder".
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Want to Swim Fast?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: sports
Character(s): Bob Kiphuth
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Pages 71-75.

The title given to this sequence in the table of contents is "Want to Swim Fast? Bob Kiphuth".
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Get Yourself a Pair of Skis

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Torger Tokel
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Pages 76-83.
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Jack Kramer King of the Tennis Court

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Genres: biography, sports
Character(s): John Albert "Jack" Kramer; Jack's father; Jack's mother; Ted Schroeder; Perry JonesDick Skeen; Ellsworth Vines; Clifton Roche; King George VI; Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; Bobby Riggs
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Pages: 7
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Golf Champions Show You How to Cut Strokes Off Your Game!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: sports
Character(s): Sammy Snead; Byron Nelson; The Duffer; Tension (a spirit); Haste (a spirit)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pages 91-96.

The title in the table of contents is listed as "How to Cut Strokes Off Your Game".
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Bits of Sports!

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, sports
Character(s): Babe Didrikson; Man O' War; Hal Newhouser; Stan Ketchel
Synopsis: Various cartoon factoids.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 97 unmarked.
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First Line: For additional copies of this book...
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Disclose Notes: Page 98 unmarked.

This page lists how to order additional copies of this magazine by sending 25 cents in coin to Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 122 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. Postage could be paid by the publisher. Copyright 1948 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc., New York, N. Y.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Tommy Henrich ? (photograph of)
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Page 99 unmarked.

A series of black and white sports photographs. Sports identified are basketball, baseball, skiing; golf, wrestling, and swimming.

Identified including unknown DePaul University basketball player and possibly Tommy Henrich of baseball's New York Yankees.
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How Champions Play Football

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ? (red background color)
Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: A Street and Smith publication
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Page 100 unmarked.

All red back cover with just the issue's title in white letters in the center and "A Street and Smith Publication" at the bottom of the cover's page. These words are repeated on the spine in black lettering.

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