1949 · Gottlieb
College Daze
Flat deep royal-blue painted field covering the whole panel, large tilted green american-football pitch with white yard lines, hatched white-and-green end zone at the top of the pitch, crowd suggested as small white and blue speckles along the pitch edge, light honey-brown wooden cabinet frame surrounding the artwork and black dark arcade interior beyond the cabinet.
- Year
- 1949
- Maker
- Gottlieb
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- green
- red
- yellow
Fingerprint: COLLEGE DAZE with pink-red banner, cheerleader in white jumper red skirt climbing flagpole, tilted green football field packed with tiny red-jerseyed players, chain of football-shaped scoring ovals, majorette with mace right edge
A blonde cheerleader in a white jumper and red skirt straining upward on a black flagpole at the lower left, helped by a grinning moustached man in a yellow, red and white sweater printed D·C. A giant tilted green football pitch fills the centre, packed with tiny red-jerseyed, yellow-trousered players running in numbered rows. A chain of American-football-shaped scoring ovals (900, 800, 700 down to 10) zig-zags diagonally across the blue background like a ladder. The word MILLION in enormous curved yellow block letters arches over the field beneath a row of numbered swallow-tailed pennants. A real brown football printed with TRADEMARK, D. GOTTLIEB & CO and CHICAGO is tilted on the right beside a white-uniformed majorette with a plumed hat raising a mace.
Setting
- Flat deep royal-blue painted field covering the whole panel
- Large tilted green american-football pitch with white yard lines
- Hatched white-and-green end zone at the top of the pitch
- Crowd suggested as small white and blue speckles along the pitch edge
- Light honey-brown wooden cabinet frame surrounding the artwork
- Black dark arcade interior beyond the cabinet
Symbols
- Five-pointed stars in yellow, blue and white
- American-football-shaped scoring ovals
- Row of swallow-tailed numbered pennants
- Tilted brown american football
- Red arrow pointing left
- Goal posts
- Yellow yard lines
- Flagpole with flag
- Marching-band mace
- Cloud motifs above the pennants
Lettering
- Large white slab-serif capitals with heavy black drop shadow for the title, painted onto a pink-and-red waving ribbon banner; a curved yellow sans-serif block word million with a red shadow below; small red and black hand-lettering on the brown football; white numerals on coloured football-shaped plaques
Themes
- American football
- College sport
- Cheerleading
- Stadium
- Scoring ladder
- Patriotic school colours
- Fraternity party
Title on it
- College ★ daze
Text on it
- COLLEGE
- DAZE
- THOUSANDS
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- MILLION
- TRADEMARK
- D. GOTTLIEB & CO
- CHICAGO
- D.C
- 900
- 800
- 700
- 600
- 500
- 400
- 300
- 200
- 100
- 90
- 80
- 70
- 60
- 50
- 40
- 30
- 20
- 10
- 8
- 7
- 6
- 11
- 9
- 12
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Lower left, blonde bobbed hair, white long-sleeved top and short red skirt, bare legs, arms raised gripping a black flagpole, straining upward |
| Man | Lower left beside her, short brown hair, moustache, yellow sweater with a red and white chest panel printed d.c, grin, both hands on the same black flagpole |
| Woman | Right edge, white majorette tunic with a flared skirt, white knee socks and boots, tall plumed hat, one leg kicked up, right arm raised holding a long mace |
| Other | About a dozen small cartoon american-football players scattered across the green pitch, red jerseys with white numbers, yellow trousers, white helmets, some running and some in a kicking pose |
| Other | Small white-uniformed players or band members in a loose cluster at the lower centre, partly overlapped by the scoring ovals |
| Creature | A pink pig-like animal outlined in black near the lower right of the pitch, in profile |
Illuminated backglass set into a light honey-brown wooden cabinet frame, photographed in a dark arcade with black surroundings and visible glare. Art is a flat, brightly saturated mid-century painted illustration on a deep royal-blue ground. Across the top a wavy two-tone banner (pink upper half, red lower half) carries the title in large white slab-serif capitals with black shadow, reading COLLEGE then a five-pointed star then DAZE; two small yellow and blue stars float above it. Below hangs a row of five swallow-tailed pennants in green, yellow, pink, red and yellow, numbered 1 2 3 4 5, over the huge curved yellow word MILLION with a red drop shadow. A cream-brown American football, tilted, with red script and block lettering lies on the right. Most of the panel is a large tilted green football field with white yard lines and a hatched end zone, crowded with small cartoon players in red jerseys, yellow trousers and white helmets. Football-shaped scoring ovals in alternating red, pink, yellow and green run in a diagonal chain from the upper left down to the lower right. At lower left a blonde cheerleader in a white top and red skirt and a moustached man in a yellow, red and white sweater pull a flagpole together. Right edge shows a white-uniformed majorette with plumed hat raising a mace.