NOT!! your Traditional Tabletop Sports Game

Game Play Action from a game of solitaire electric football circa 2024

When Electric Football was created and introduced to the toy and game market in 1949, it was marketed as a tabletop sports game of American Gridiron Football. It was unique from other tabletop sports games in that it had 22 individual miniature “action posed” football figure “players” that would all move independently of each other when the electromagnetic motor mounted underneath the metal game board playing surface, was activated, setting the whole thing in motion.

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