Offered is Hall of Fame Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway’s 1977 Granada Hills High School yearbook from his sophomore year. “The Tartan 77” published by Granada Hills High School in Granada Hills, California is a 224-page hardcover with color and black & white photograph and stories about the school’s activities in the 1976-1977 school year. Elway is mentioned as a sophomore quarterback in a football summary on page 68 and pictured in a black & white photo spread across the lower center pages 68-69. The 9 ¼ x 11-inch hardcover features a green, black and white “Tartan” plaid design on the covers, with an inset color photograph of two boys and a girl wearing kilts on an outcropping of rock on the front cover. The caption “Tartan 77” is in black type on the front cover, with “Granada Hills High School 1977” in black type on the spine. Elway’s high school career began at Pullman High School to the San Fernando Valley and continued at Granada Hills for his final three years of football under head coaches Jack Neumeier and Tom Richards. Despite missing five games with a knee injury as a senior, he ended his high school career with 5,711 passing yards and 49 passing touchdowns and was named to the PARADE All America High School Football Team, along with future NFL stars, quarterback Dan Marino and running back Eric Dickerson. Known as a dual-threat quarterback, meaning he was accomplished at running and escaping pressure and had impressive passing ability, he was the number-one recruited high school player in the country, receiving over 60 scholarship offers. Elway played college football at Stanford and his entire 16-year professional career with the Denver Broncos. At the time of his retirement in early 1999, Elway had recorded the most victories by a starting quarterback and statistically was the second most prolific passer in NFL history.

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