"Father" Lumpkin and Glenn Presnell, two of the Portsmouth Spartan Iron Men

ID: 896 ~ Source: Dr. Louis Chaboudy Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.

This file appears in: The Iron Man Game of 1932: The NFL Spartans Defeat the Green Bay Packers in the Greatest Football Game in Portsmouth Sports History

This file appears in: The Iron Man Game of 1932: The NFL Spartans Defeat the Green Bay Packers in the Greatest Football Game in Portsmouth Sports History

The Iron Man Game of 1932
: The NFL Spartans Defeat the Green Bay Packers in the Greatest Football Game in Portsmouth Sports History

By Derrick C. Parker & Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

On Sunday, 4 December 1932, the reigning NFL champion Green Bay Packers faced off the Portsmouth Spartans in what has come to be popularly known as the Iron Man Game. Played in Portsmouth’s Universal…