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Larry Kelley wins Heisman Trophy...
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December 17, 1936
THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, NY, December 17, 1936
* Larry Kelley wins Heisman Trophy
* Yale University college football
This 56 page newspaper has a banner headline on page 36: "Kelley Calls Football 'Big Business', but Says that It Still Belongs to Players" with subheads and photo. (see)
Tells of Larry Kelley winning the Heisman Trophy out of Yale University.
Other news of the day throughout. Some browning with little margin wear, otherwise good.
wikipedia notes: Lawrence Morgan "Larry" Kelley (May 30, 1915 – June 27, 2000) was an American football player born in Conneaut, Ohio. He played end, for Yale University. While at Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Skull & Bones, and was the second winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1936, the year it was renamed in honor of John Heisman. His jersey number was 19.
Kelley was an All-American end and the captain of the Yale football team. Following his career at Yale, he played for the Boston Shamrocks of the American Football League in 1937. He is a member of the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame. Following his career in football, Kelley was a history teacher and alumni director at the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey.
He taught English at Cheshire Academy and spent 12 years in the glove-manufacturing industry.
To benefit of his nieces and nephews, Kelley sold his Heisman Trophy at an auction in December 1999 for $328,110 to the owner of The Stadium Museum, Restaurant & Bar in Garrison, New York, where it now resides. His health was visibly failing by then after having suffered a minor stroke and having open-heart surgery, and on June 27, 2000, Kelley died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Highstown. It was said to be a suicide by the Highstown police. He was 85 when he died. He was survived by his fourth wife and 18 nieces and nephews.
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