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Northwestern Home Game Programs Gallery
Part 8: 1953 through 1958
Posted 2/26/12; Updated 11/26/13
NU
returned to original football program cover artwork in 1950. Then, in 1953, under the
art direction of Lew Merrell, Northwestern hit on a distinctive program
cover. The style featured a football-shaped photo cutout of some
scene from Dyche Stadium, surrounded by a stylized, fifties-style pen
and ink drawing.
Merrell
changed the format slightly each year, but the football-shaped photo
remained a feature of the cover until NU dropped the style after the
1958 season.
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Sept. 26, 1953
Iowa State
First program to feature the "football photo" style.
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October 10, 1953
Minnesota |
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October 24, 1953
Pittsburgh
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Sept. 25, 1954
Iowa State
1954 brought a slight change to the style, dropping the Willie icon and adding the drawing of the new McGaw Hall.
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Sept. 24, 1955
Miami (O)
For '55, the Willie icon returned (at least, the head did).
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Sept. 29, 1956
Iowa State
A slight change to the design for '56, featuring the Dyche
arches. This cover featured Coach Parseghian for his NU coaching
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Nov. 24, 1956
Illinois
This cover used the same photo of the Chief as the 1953 cover, above.
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Oct. 5, 1957
Oregon State
In 1957, NU returned to the '54 cover style. This cover shows a
scene from Band Day. For the next decade NU hosted Oregon State
occasionally for Band Day.
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Sept. 27, 1958
Washington State - Classic Cover
The
final version of this cover style, for 1958, featured Dyche Stadium and
its goal posts. This particular cover, for the Washington State
game, epitomized the style and ranks as one of the twenty CLASSIC NU PROGRAM COVERS.
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