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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