Rare 1953-57 LEE CORSO Original 8.25x10 Inch FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY Wire Photo

Description

For sale we offer an amazing Lee Corso original 8 1/4 x 10 inch wire team photograph.  It is in really nice condition and marked on the back.  It reads Florida State University halfback Lee Corso Best Back in Dixie?  We have never seen another one like it.  He attended Florida State 1953-1957 so we are not sure which year it was taken.
Corso was born in
Cicero, Illinois
on August 7, 1935.
[3]
[4]
[5]
At age 10, he moved with his family to
Miami
and later attended
Miami Jackson Senior High School
, where he played
quarterback
. A baseball prospect, he was offered a ,000 bonus to sign with the
Brooklyn Dodgers
as a
shortstop
.
[2]
However, he chose college, playing football and baseball at
Florida State University
(FSU), where he was a roommate of football player and actor
Burt Reynolds
and future
University of Miami
baseball coach
Ron Fraser
. While at FSU, Corso earned the nickname "Sunshine Scooter" for his speed on the football field.
[6]
As a defensive player, he set the school record for most career interceptions (14), a record that stood for more than two decades until it was broken by
Monk Bonasorte
.
[7]
Corso was also a member of the
Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity
. He was the starting quarterback for the South in the 1956
Blue-Gray Game
, though his squad lost to the
Len Dawson
-led North team, 14–0.
Thanks for looking and please let us know if you have any additional questions.  It will be shipped in the top loader it is photographed in.