Electric Football Timeline 1955 – Tudor Goes on Offense

Electric Football 1955 Tudor No. 500 game

Tudor Goes On Offense

Tudor responds to Gotham’s Electric Football challenge by creating a brand new set of Electric Football players. And Tudor’s No. 500 gets a Toy Guidance Council seal of approval, being part of a toy preview in the Washington Post.

1955 Tudor Electric Football sales catalog page

Tudor Electric Football in the Washington Post

Gotham Goes Big

Gotham comes out with a second Electric Football model called the G-940 Electro-Magnetic Football game. It has two metal grandstands, home and away scoreboards, and becomes the first Electric Football game ever to appear in the Sears Christmas Catalog.

1955 Gotham G-940 Electric Football Game

1955 Christmas Catalogs and ads for Electric Football

There was no question that 1955 would be the most interesting year yet in Electric Football.

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