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re: The Illustrious Alabama Inspired the Heisman Trophy Pose.
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:43 pm to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:43 pm to SidewalkTiger
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That's news to Frank.
But Alabama has always been known for making false claims decades after the fact.
Eliscu needed inspiration to create what the Downtown Athletic Club requested. Just a player gaining yards, which is what the DAC requested, is broad.
But after he saw the Rose Bowl cover art of the Bama player, which everyone alive at the time who followed football was familiar with, he knew right away what his statue was going to look like.
Ole Frankie then went straight to work assembling some live models from NYU to achieve, in sculpture form, what he saw in a flat image.
The rest, my friend, is history. Alabama has been the motivator, the motivation and the innovator in so many different aspects of college football it is hard to keep track sometimes.
I will soon create a wonderful thread about Bama's inspirational spirit, in the 1960's, that resulted in players from every team and in every division raising up four fingers in the fourth quarter even to this very day.
Roll Tide!
This post was edited on 7/29/24 at 4:48 pm
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Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:53 pm to nicholastiger
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And it took bama forever to win a heisman
careface 4 > 3
Posted on 7/29/24 at 4:56 pm to Smokey Okie
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Eliscu needed inspiration to create what the Downtown Athletic Club requested. Just a player gaining yards, which is what the DAC requested, is broad.
So he used an NYU player as a model.
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But after he saw the Rose Bowl cover art of the Bama player, which everyone alive at the time who followed football was familiar with, he knew right away what his statue was going to look like.
Ole Frankie then went straight to work assembling some live models from NYU to achieve, in sculpture form, what he saw in a flat image.
Well, no, he used the NYU player as a model prior to the Rose Bowl program ever existing.
Posted on 7/29/24 at 5:21 pm to SidewalkTiger
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So he used an NYU player as a model.
Of course. Why would he come all the way to Alabama to just get a stand-in model for life-like effects?
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Well, no, he used the NYU player as a model prior to the Rose Bowl program ever existing.
Well, no, he did not use the NYU player as a model prior to the Rose Bowl program coming into existence.
You are wrong and I've already corrected you once. He got a NYU player that had graduated in 1934 to stand for him in 1935 and the prototype of the statue wasn't available for public viewing until late in 1935.
Try to keep up. Don't be jealous; just accept reality for what it is.
This post was edited on 7/29/24 at 5:22 pm
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