Title: 1961 Gator Bowl Program Penn State vs Georgia Tech - 17th Annual College Football Ephemera
Description: Relive collegiate postseason football history with this original December 30, 1961 official souvenir game program for the 17th Annual Gator Bowl, held at the Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. This historic matchup featured legendary coach Rip Engle's Penn State Nittany Lions squaring off against coach Bobby Dodd's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, culminating in a definitive 30-15 victory for Penn State. The front cover presents a distinct mid-century retro graphic design split into yellow and blue blocks featuring historic illustration work of early football players, stylized arrows, a 75-cent cover price, and a "Fans Flip Card - Tear Here" prompt in the bottom right corner. The back cover serves as a full-page local advertisement for The H. & W. B. Drew Co. located at 30 West Bay Street in Jacksonville, showcasing vintage green and yellow artwork of historical figures with typography detailing their services as printers, engravers, and lithographers serving Florida since 1855. This genuine print publication stands as an objective historical time capsule documenting 1960s bowl game pageantry, team rosters, and regional mid-century advertising.
Product Specifications
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Show Era/Event: 17th Annual Gator Bowl Game
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Publication Year: 1961
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Founders/Venue: Gator Bowl Stadium (Jacksonville, FL)
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Genre: College Football Memorabilia & Ephemera
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Item Type: Genuine Official Souvenir Game Program
Detailed Condition & Flaw Report
This vintage periodical is sold strictly as-is based on a direct physical review of the front and back cover layout scans.
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Overall Condition: Used condition with notable surface wear, handling marks, and material loss on the reverse side consistent with vintage age.
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Spine & Binding: Stable softcover binding with minor color breaking, light creasing, and shelf wear along the vertical spine edge.
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Cover Wear: Front cover exhibits moderate perimeter toning, minor edge nicks, and light handling smudges. The back cover shows significant condition flaws, including extensive skinning and surface paper loss along the top and bottom margins, which obscures portions of the printer's company name text at the top and the lithographer credit line at the bottom.
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Interior Pages & Cleanliness: Complete interior pages are not fully exposed in these cover layout scans, but the visible outer margins show expected uniform vintage age-toning and light yellowing. The visible paper structure appears flat, clean, and free of any prominent modern ink markings, heavy stains, or significant tears.
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Shipping & Store Logistics
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Archival-Safe Protection: Vintage paper programs are highly prone to edge nicks, rolling, or folding if improperly packaged. To protect your investment, this 1961 Gator Bowl Program will be safely enclosed in a protective sleeve, placed between heavy cardboard reinforcement panels, and shipped inside a clean, rigid, crush-resistant box to ensure it arrives flat.
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