Dave Good and others presented stories about Manchester College to elementary school students visiting campus.  He used this football, that had been housed in the Old Museum (basement of Communications Building - now torn down) - to relay an interesting story.  Dillon Bender, of the athletics department, added to this tale:

In 1933 Manchester did play Notre Dame's "B" team.  Dillon Bender

The legendary story, from Dave Good: In the 1930's, Manchester's football team was scheduled to play Notre Dame.

To start the game, the football was to be dropped onto the playing field from an airplane.

There was an unanticipated amount of wind during the "drop," and the football landed in a field on the opposite (east) side of the Kenapocomoco River. A different football had to be used for the game.

Following the game, Manchester College students went searching for the windblown football and retrieved it. This is the football contained in the archives today.