BRAND Wilson Sporting Goods Co.

DESCRIPTION
A stunning vibrant blue V-neck college/varsity jumper from Wilson Sporting Good Co.
The jumper is made in the USA, it still has the original brand label and also a little name tag from the original owner (Bill Fox). The patches are from the Choir Club (front) and Theatre Club (right harm).

The Wilson company traces its roots to the "Schwarzschild & Sulzberger" meatpacking company (later changed to "Sulzberger & Son's") based in New York, that operated meat packing slaughterhouses.
Sulzberger & Son's founded the "Ashland Manufacturing Company" in 1913 to use animal by-products from its slaughterhouses. It started out in 1914, making tennis racket strings, violin strings, and surgical sutures, but soon expanded into baseball shoes and tennis racquets.
In 1915, Thomas E. Wilson, former president of meatpacker Morris & Company, was appointed President by the controlling banks and renamed the company "Thomas E. Wilson Company". The company acquired the Hetzinger Knitting Mills to produce athletic uniforms and a caddie bag company which produced golf balls but soon expanded into footballs and basketballs.
In 1941, Wilson became official provider of game balls for the National Football League (American football), a partnership that continues to this day. Wilson became the official NBA ball supplier in 1946, in a partnership that would last 37 years.
After the World War II, Wilson focused on tennis and signed Jack Kramer, who developed its line of Jack Kramer signed tennis rackets. L. B. Icely died in 1950, but the company continued to expand. In 1955, it acquired Ohio-Kentucky Manufacturing for making footballs.

FABRIC Wool.

YEAR From the construction and the very long waist-band, I reckon this is from the 40s or maybe older...

CONDITION Amazing condition. Never found such an old wool jumper in such a good shape.

SIZE ON LABEL 42. Please see actual measurements and estimated size.

ESTIMATED SIZE men M / women L.

MEASUREMENTS
Chest (pit to pit) - 21.5 inches.
Length - 25.5 inches.
Sleeve (from shoulder with folded cuff) - 21 inches.
Sleeve (from shoulder with unfolded cuff) - 23 inches.