Contemporary NFL games have a whole host of statisticians, numbers crunchers, computer gurus and probably input flunkies that chart every play that occurs during a game. Detailed charts are made and in-depth statistics are soon made available to every member of the media, but as well to the general public via the internet. Things have not always been so complex, nor information so immediate. Game summaries used to be compiled, copied on old mimeograph machines, then distributed by hand or mail to those who were in need of such information. I have been fortunate to acquire a handful of these original summaries. Below you will find the complete package that was put together for the 1963 AFL championship game between the San Diego Chargers and Boston Patriots. Here it is, in black and white.
And yes, Keith Lincoln really was unstoppable on that day…
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Wow. This is fantastic stuff, thank you for sharing. I hope more of these game reports exist, I’d love to see more!
Thanks, Paul. I’m glad you joined the site! I have plenty more of these, and will put more up.
I have collected a bunch of these from the WFL, and have looked at quite a bit at the PFHOF library in Canton. Nice to see some AFL ones. Thanks for the post, Todd.
You know what’s interesting about these, Mark? I have several from a number of different AFL teams, and all are put together differently. There is very little uniformity in these summaries from team to team.
Nice! Todd you must have been extremely excited to aquire this, I know I would be.
Keith Lincoln wasn’t unanimous in the game MVP voting, one might think the 39th vote wasn’t cast, although in reading the pages if the individual that compiled the stats had a vote, it may have been cast for Sweeney. Sweeney and his play on special teams made quite and impression, remarkable enough for the stat person to give him added consideration when he wrote “knocked down by Sweeney ( as usual)”.
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Man, this is super stuff ! ! ! Who wrote this? It looks like he wrote it out right on the spot, as the game unfolded–and he did it in complete sentences ! ! !
When I cover high school football, I take notes for every play, and I write descriptive phrases and draw clusters of stars around big plays. The prose doesn’t come out, however, until I write the actual article. This guy, whoever he was, wrote a fine play-by-play report, right there on the spot.
“Rote crawls over the line to get 2 yards and the touchdown.” (On page 2.) Man, that’s good stuff.
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