South Texas Branch
Open to the public - Jan 1999
Renovated - Feb 2003
Relocated - Aug 2005
Curator - Rick Fray, PSU 1981
I've always been fascinated by sports ticket stubs, ever since I saved my first one from the 1970 Penn State-Army game I attended. For many years I just threw them in a shoebox, but one day realized I had quite a few from Penn State football games, as my Dad had season tickets since the mid 1970's. After a while, I developed a basic checklist, and when I discovered Ebay in 1998, that and the internet opened up a whole new source for obtaining tickets.
My goal is to assemble a premier museum documenting Penn State football tickets, obviously a lofty goal with over 1100 games played over 115+ years. I hope this will be a useful tool to help other collectors to identify the approximate age of ticket stubs that may be missing date information. I will be developing new content, and adding as many ticket images as I can find, many not in my collection. Check back occasionally to see what I've found to spice up the site. I have been able to contact many other ticket stub collectors through the internet and people who have stumbled onto my site, so I hope this will continue to be a good resource for years to come. If you have images of tickets I'm missing that you'd like to contribute to the display, please contact me. Any donations to fill in missing pieces would be greatly appreciated.
I hope you enjoy viewing the tickets from years gone by, and if you have any Penn State football stubs to trade or sell, please email me. You'll also find a link to my collecting needs as well as a "gift shop" for memorabilia items I have for trade or sale.
I relocated from Virginia to Texas in August 2005, so please contact me for current address information.
If you are a collector of football tickets from any school, I welcome contact with you and if you desire I can place your contact information on my links page.
My website was mentioned in the September/October 2000 Penn Stater magazine in a section on websites (Surfing for Sports), starting with Joe Paterno's new one. Thank you to whoever suggested it be featured!
In 2006 I was contacted by Peter Asgard of Asgard Press and asked to contribute some ticket images to a calendar he was putting together of vintage Penn State football programs. Each month has a program and a vintage ticket on it, and some tickets are from the same game. To see the Penn State calendars as well as vintage calendars from other schools he has put printed, click on the calendar below and get a 10% discount!
Regular Season Game Tickets - Updated 1/5/2008
Ticket images from 648 Regular Season Games uploaded!
Milestone Game Tickets - Updated 1/5/2008
Bowl Game Tickets - Updated 1/5/2008
Ticket images from 39 Bowl Games uploaded!
My Want List - Updated 1/5/2008
Gift Shop - Updated 12/27/2006
Links - Updated 4/16/2007
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