One of the oldest football related jewelry items I have come across. This gold medallion displays the old colors of Penn State from 1887-90 on an enamel melon football. Their first colors was a combination of Pink and Black. They changed to the blue and white colors we are accustomed to in 1890.
I included a collotype photo I have of the 1889 team along with the color chant from an old La Vie yearbook I have. Here is a more in depth article on the color exchange https://www.psu.edu/news/campus-life/story/dear-old-state-pink-and-black-blue-and-white. I also took a few snippets of the interesting parts of the article if you don’t want to read.
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