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Showing posts with label Players Tobacco Co. Show all posts

30.3.13

Hints on Association Football 1934

From the era of the half-time fag...
John Player and Sons issued a coaching manual into which the 50 cigarette cards of this 1934 issue could be pasted.
 All credit to the original poster at Away From The Numbers.






















3.12.12

Players' Footballers Series 1 & 2 1928

The Players Tobacco Company issued two sets of football cards in 1928-29. 
The first series featured 39 footballers along with 11 Rugby Union and League players.
Series 2 was dedicated entirely to 'soccer'.
The teams represented were drawn from all four divisions (1st, 2nd and 3rd Division North and South).
Blackburn Rovers' skipper  Harry Healless is shown carrying the FA Cup.