Spartan Stockholders Approve Club's Sale to Detroit for $10,000 (6 April 1934)

ID: 876 ~ Source: Portsmouth Daily Times (6 April 1934), Historic Portsmouth Newspaper Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 1934
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"The Spartans passed into football history, as far as Portsmouth is concerned, Thursday night, when the sale of the team for $10,000 to a group of Detroit men, headed by George A. Richards, manufacturer, W. A. Alfs, an attorney, P. M. Thomas and Cyrus Huston, was ratified at a stockholders' meeting." reads the first paragraph of this Portsmouth Daily Times news article about the selling of the Portsmouth Spartans to Detroit.

This file appears in: Peerless Portsmouth and Detroit, the City of Champions: How the Portsmouth Spartans Helped the Detroit Lions Win the 1935 NFL Championship