Lot # 27: 14x17 Wheaties Ad Featuring Wes Fesler

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A 1930's Wheaties Advertisement featuring Ohio State's Wes Fesler and Notre Dame's Joe Kurth. This ad featured facsimile signed photos of each, personalized to All-American boy and Radio star Jack Armstrong.

At Ohio State, Fesler would play baseball, basketball, and football, being selected team captain in the latter two sports. Fesler would become Ohio State's head coach in 1947 and helped develop Vic Janowicz into the school's second Heisman Trophy winner. He would be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954 and be a charter member of Ohio State's Varsity O Hall of Fame in 1977.

All signatures of Kurth and Fesler are facsimile copies on the advertisement.  Entire ad measures 14x17.

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