In celebration of a season saved this week... I thought I'd share pictures of this medal and ask if anyone had more information about it.

This is a rather small (35 mm) silver medal produced by Victor D. Brenner. It is cataloged as Smedley 15... and that's about all I know. Most of Brenner's medals are works of portraiture. This one, clearly, isn't. This medal shows a highly detailed football game, with at least 16 players represented (I'm having a hard time counting heads, even with the medal in front of me), including one of the players nearly upside down in the scrum, plus a referee waving a flag in the middle.

After some digging, I finally found another auction appearance for this one, in the July, 1993, Presidential sale, where a white metal specimen was sold as lot 334. Unfortunately, that listing only had a description of the medal itself, with nothing of the history behind it. (It also suggests that they could find only one other modern auction appearance to that date, of an electrotype in the 1978 NASCA Irwin Stoff Sale, which I don't have.)

Could anyone share some history of why Brenner produced this medal that is so atypical of his other works?