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Oblong atlas folio. One colour lithograph game board, mechanical moving metal football, and line marker on parallel tracks across football field, two volvelle metal pointers at each end, game statistics & call plays printed in red & black on either side, w/ original 3 dice and "Scoreboard" sheets for players laid-in, printed instructions mounted on verso of lid. Colour-lithograph illustrated game box, cover art of football players, and title, red, white & blue colours, red bottom box (couple minor splits at corners, minor scuffing, edgewear), still a VG complete exemplar. First edition of this pioneering football sporting game foreshadowing the modern Fantasy Football leagues, and designed so that players could follow and play along with radio broadcast games during the Great Depression. First developed by the pair in 1933-1934 during the depths of the Great Depression, while Mazer (1903-1951) was on sabbatical from Columbia University, and Berolzheimer (1902-1995), owner and partner in Cal-Cedar Pencil Factories in and inventor of a local locksmith and hardware company in San Leandro, CA (Ry-Lock Co., Ltd.), as well as owner of a printing firm, designed and first issued the game in 1934. They would later add a Baseball game, "Foto World" and later reached out to Elmer Layden of Notre Dame to reissue the game in 1937. Mazer focused on designing the game by using statistical probabilities of the various plays in football, and it proved very popular. In 1937, Mazer's wife Eleanor Ellis advanced him $ 5000 to buy out Berolzheimer's share in Cadaco, and the company name was changed to Cadaco-Ellis, and moved to Chicago. The company rejected buying and adopting Monopoly, as well as Cootie, but would go on to sevelop and market Tripoley, Yankee Doodle, Pigs in clover, Ethan Allen's All-Star Baseball, Treasure Hunt, a version of Scrabble, and even the first electric Football game -- "Foto-Electric Football" in 1938. No copies in Worldcat; See: Bruce Whitehill, Cadaco-Ellis and Cadaco, The Big Game Hunter (2025).