1926 Shotwell Candy Red Grange Set (Movie Series)

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	Shotwell Candy Red Grange
Year	1926
Size	2″ x 3″
Images	Black and White
Type	Candy/Caramel
Number in Set	24

1926 Shotwell Candy Red Grange Movie Set Overview

In 1926, Shotwell Candy created two sets of Red Grange football cards. One was a 12-card mostly action set with various shots during his career and the second was a 24-card set featuring Grange in his movie, “One Minute to Play.” Both sets of cards were available in packages of Shotwell Candy’s Red Grange candy bars.

The movie set is blank-backed, unlike Shotwell’s other 12-card set, which had an ad on the backs.

In the movie, Grange plays a high school football star named Red Wade, who wants to play football in college against his father’s wishes. At the time in 1926, Grange had just begun his pro football career. But he was wildly popular out of college already and the movie capitalized on that. Despite being a pro, Grange was only 23 at the time so it wasn’t a huge stretch for him to play a part as a college player.

The set features Grange in various scenes in the movie – both in and out of uniform. The cards are pretty rare and not easy to find. Even at only 24 cards, the set is not very easy to assemble. While all of the cards are valuable, the ones featuring Grange in playing poses are generally more desirable to collectors.