A collection of sporting autographs, comprising: Manual of Rugby League Coaching, c. 1940s signatures of 5 distinguished Yorkshire and Lancashire rugby players on inside of front thick paper wrapper, including Trevor Foster of Bradford Northern, who had 16 caps for Wales and toured with the 1946 British "Indomitables" to Australia and New Zealand. Other signatures are James Crossley, "Barney" Hudson, Tommy Sale and ?Duncan Jackson. In a pamphlet, 56 pages, illustrated with photographs and line drawings. (b) Alan Ball, the 1966 England Football World Cup winner, signed under his image on front cover of Blackpool F.C. programme v Brentford, League Division Three, 20 September 1980. (c) Football: 19 autographs, most of Southend United players with a few of their opponents, Reading, on front and back covers and one inside page of the programme for Southend United's home match v Reading, Division Four, 13 January 1978. Signatures include Colin Morris, Derrick Parker (twice), Tony Hadley, Micky Laverick, Alan Moody, Steve Yates (Southend) and Steve Death (Reading). With: a complimentary match ticket. (d) Football: 13 autographs of Cardiff City players, including the legendary John Toshack, in the programme for their away match against Derby County, Second Division, 3 February 1968. All the players have signed against their printed names, including a substitute and Brian Clark, who joined Cardiff City officially two days after the match (he was famously to score the winning goal for Cardiff against Real Madrid in 1971). John Toshack was a Welsh international and also became a key player for Liverpool. (e) Football: 5 autographs of Arsenal players from the 1957-58 season, in programme for their home match against Birmingham City, League 1, 19 October 1957. The signatures are by Stan Charlton, Dennis Evans, Bill Dodgin, and Jack Kelsey, the world-class Welsh goalkeeper who starred for Wales in the 1958 World Cup (there are two signatures by him). The programme lacks 2 pages and the rear cover. (f) Snooker: autographs of the professional billiards and snooker players Claude Falkiner and Thomas Arthur (Tom) Dennis, who are shown in action in a mounted photograph dated "Nott [ingha]m 6-2-36". The signatures, with a third autograph, are on the mount. (g) Comedy acrobatics: The Talo Boys, multiview photograph, 7.75 x10.75 inches (9.5 x 27.25 cm) showing group portrait and the men performing various acrobatic feats, signed on the back "To Mr. Goodwin with best wishes and good luck. The '5 Talo-Boys', Princes Theatre, Bristol, 2.9.1936". The group was still performing in the 1950s, and a video is available on YouTube from that time.