Vintage 1950s Toys Electric Football

Vintage 1950s Toys

Electric Football

          Electric Football can be traced back to 1929 when Elmer Sas incorporated Tudor Metal Products in New York City. The company survived the Depression and in the late '40s, Elmer's son Norman became president of Tudor and invented the game, Electric Football.

Norman Sas based the game on a vibrating car race game that Tudor already made. The early #500 Electric Football models were crude to the modern eye but were the first tabletop football game which featured actual moving players as they reacted to the vibrations created by the electromagnet motor under the metal field. Actual passing and kicking was also a unique feature of this first of its kind design.

          Electric Football was an immediate hit and became one of the hottest items at Christmas time from the late '50s and '60s and to date has sold 70 million games. Tudor did so well with the game that other companies also entered the market; Coleco, Munro and Gotham. Over the coming years, some of Electric Football's greatest innovations would come out of the competition between the companies.

          The Electric Football  today features many local, regional, national and even international leagues and tournaments with hundreds of coaches participating and  a World Championship tournament and convention.