1924 Johnny Blood McNally St Johns Yearbook - Packers HOFer + Signed Auto

Description: Thanks for looking. Up for consideration are the following 2 Johnny Blood McNally items. 1924 Johnny “Blood” McNally St Johns Yearbook / Annual - Green Bay Packers HOFer (1963 Inaugural Pro Football HOF Member) - Excellent condition hard covered book with no issues or spine damage. Johnny Blood & Red Grange signed / autographed Pro Football HOF Pamphlet From Wikipedia John Victor McNally Jr. was born as the fourth of six surviving children to parents, Mary and John McNally Sr.[2] A native of New Richmond, Wisconsin, McNally graduated from high school at age 14. He never played high school sports, but earned letters in football, baseball, basketball, and track at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. McNally transferred to Notre Dame in 1926, but never played a down for the Fighting Irish, and left school to play semi-professional football. He did not earn his degree until 1946 after retiring from the game. Professional career In 1922, while working for a newspaper in Minneapolis and still answering to the name John McNally, he and a friend, Ralph Hanson, heard they could make extra money by playing football for a semipro football team in the city. They decided to try out under fake names, which would protect McNally's amateur standing in case Notre Dame agreed to take McNally back someday after having been kicked out. They headed over to the team's practice field on McNally's motorcycle. "On the way there", McNally said, "we passed a theater on Hennepin Avenue, and up on the marquee I saw the name of the movie that was playing, Blood and Sand with Rudolph Valentino. Ralph was behind me on the motorcycle, and I turned my head and shouted, 'That's it. I'll be Blood and you be Sand.'" McNally made the team, but it was a few years before he made football history while playing with the Green Bay Packers and five other NFL teams.[3] Starting in 1925, McNally made a tour of pro football franchises—the Milwaukee Badgers (1925–26), Duluth Eskimos (1926–27), Pottsville Maroons (1928), Green Bay Packers (1929–33), Pittsburgh Pirates (1934), the Packers again (1935–36), and the Pirates again as player-coach (1937–39)

Price: 1750 USD

Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin

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