The CFL Alumni Association Legends Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/11/2012
Boy, they just don’t take team photos like this one anymore. What a shame! Offered is a 1926 Queen’s University rugby team photo, a huge framed panoramic affair with all of the members of the squad lined up side by side in a straight line, or so it would appear. In fact, the Queen’s players and staff are standing in a horseshoe shape on the field to keep consistent proportions for everyone pictured from both ends of the frame and right through those in the middle. Queen’s halfback Carl Voss, who is pictured eighth from the right, won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s rookie of the year in 1933. He went on to become the league’s referee-in-chief and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder in 1974. Harry Batstone, a member of both the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, starred for the Toronto Argonauts from 1919-21, winning a Grey Cup in his final season with the Boatmen before going on to claim it again in each of his first three seasons with Queen’s. He is pictured right of center in the middle of the frame, one of four members of the Argonauts we have identified, including Pee Wee Chantler (1927-28), Chuck Agnew (1929), and Bubs Britton (1930). “Queen’s University Rugby Team 1926” is spelled out in white lettering in the bottom center of the 7 3/8” x 52” panoramic print, with the team member’s names written in white lettering on their respective torsos. The photo, which is numbered in the bottom left corner by Toronto’s “Panoramic Photo Co.”, is very nicely preserved with age cracking that belies its 86 years. An incredibly striking display piece!
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