1950 · Chicago Coin
Fighting Irish
Outdoor american football stadium, pale blue sky, packed bleachers and crowd, green pitch with white yard lines and hash marks, yellow goalposts and wide gold-brown wood-grain frame.
- Year
- 1950
- Maker
- Chicago Coin
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
Made by
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- green
- yellow
- blue
- red
Fingerprint: FIGHTING IRISH in red arch over pale blue sky, diagonal view of green football pitch with eleven green-and-gold players mid-play, tall scoring ladder with maroon arch down left edge, yellow goalposts at right, stadium seating and crowd behind far sideline, brown band showing numbered football shapes along bottom, sports competition theme
A diagonal, high-angle view of a green football pitch with eleven green-and-gold players mid-play, dominated by the huge arched red FIGHTING IRISH title over a pale blue sky. Down the entire left side runs an unusual maroon-headed scoring ladder topped by the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 and the cursive word Million, with paired score boxes running from 900 000 down to 100 000. The bottom strip reads TOUCHDOWNS over ten numbered football shapes. Green cursive Chicago Gun's sits directly above the main title.
Setting
- Outdoor american football stadium
- Pale blue sky
- Packed bleachers and crowd
- Green pitch with white yard lines and hash marks
- Yellow goalposts
- Wide gold-brown wood-grain frame
Symbols
- Brown american footballs in a numbered strip
- Yellow goalposts
- Yard lines and hash marks
- Maroon arch with numerals 1 2 3 4 5
- Boxed score numerals
Lettering
- Large arched red block capitals with white and yellow outline for the title; flowing green cursive with white outline above it; white cursive script on the maroon left arch; plain white numerals in bordered boxes
Themes
- American football
- College football
- Sports
- Team nickname
- Gridiron
Title on it
- Fighting irish
Text on it
- Chicago Gun's
- FIGHTING IRISH
- Million
- 1 2 3 4 5
- 900 000
- 90 000
- 800 000
- 80 000
- 700 000
- 70 000
- 600 000
- 60 000
- 500 000
- 50 000
- 400 000
- 40 000
- 300 000
- 30 000
- 200 000
- 20 000
- 100 000
- 10 000
- TOUCHDOWNS
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 20
- 44
- 17
- 21
- 72
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | About eleven american football players scattered across the pitch in running and blocking poses; dark green jerseys with white/black numerals, bright yellow-gold helmets, yellow trousers; visible back numbers include 11, 20, 44, 17, 21 and 72 |
| Other | Dense speckled crowd of tiny grey-and-white figures filling the stadium seating behind the far sideline |
| Other | Small figures and players in yellow and white near the far sideline at upper left, partly obscured by the title |
Framed backglass illustration of an American-rules football scene, tilted slightly so the field runs diagonally from lower left to upper right. A pale sky-blue sky fills the top, with a large arched title in red-and-white outlined block letters reading FIGHTING IRISH, and cursive green script above it reading Chicago Gun's. A green pitch with white yard lines and hash marks occupies the lower two-thirds, with tall yellow goalposts at the right and packed grey-and-white stadium seating plus crowd figures behind. Eleven players in dark green jerseys, yellow/gold helmets and yellow trousers are spread across the field in running poses, several with legible black jersey numbers. Down the left edge runs a tall scoring ladder: a maroon arch headed 1 2 3 4 5 with white cursive Million, above two stacked columns of boxed values from 900 000 / 90 000 down to 100 000 / 10 000. Along the bottom a brown band reads TOUCHDOWNS above ten brown football-shaped ovals numbered 1 to 10. The whole piece is bordered by a wide gold-brown wood-grain frame.