Saturday, March 21, 2020

1925 Pottsville Maroons Gold World Championship Pendant / Frankie Racis

Following the 1925 NFL season, one of the most controversial on record, a banquet was held for the “1925 World Champions”, the Pottsville Maroons, at the Hotel Allan in Pottsville.  Awards and keepsakes were distributed to all members of the team, the team that had won the Championship, which was only the beginning of a larger and more convoluted story.
This gold charm was awarded to Pottsville Maroons guard Frankie Racis at that event. The charm has the  following engraved on it:  “19P25”, “Frank Racis”,”Guard”, “Pottsville Maroons” and “Worlds Champions”. To our knowledge, at this time no other team member’s gold charm has surfaced.  A photograph of this exact charm appears in “Breaker Boys: The NFL’s Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship “, David Fleming, 2007 (11 pages into the photographic section). The awarding of the charms is discussed on page 233.
To better appreciate the Maroons story, rather than repeat what has been covered in past blog entries, I would ask that the reader go back and look at these postings ( please see the entries dated March 26, 2018 and March 23, 2017 in particular).

Unquestionably one of the rarest and most desirable of all Championship charms, and one of the more important pieces of Maroons history. 

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