Bobby Grayson and Keith Topping, two of Stanford University football's legendary "Vow Boys," at practice.
Item Overview
- Title
- Bobby Grayson and Keith Topping, two of Stanford University football's legendary "Vow Boys," at practice.
- Date Created
- [circa December 25, 1935]
- Date
- 1935-12-25
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Bobby Grayson and Keith Topping, two of Stanford University football's legendary "Vow Boys," at practice, possibly in preparation for the 1936 Rose Bowl. The "Vow Boys" of Stanford's 1934-1936 football seasons were so named because they swore that they would never be defeated by USC's Trojans. They never were. The legacy of the "Vow Boys" apexed with the 1936 Rose Bowl, which they won against Southern Methodist University. Keith Topping was named Most Valued Player of that game. The "Vow Boys" also went to the 1934 and 1935 Rose Bowls, but did not win those games.
- Caption
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Text from archival nitrate sleeve: Animals - Bulls, sacred, of IndiaPhoto appears to be misfiled under number 12749. Nitrate negative displays number 12662. Text from archival nitrate sleeve 12662: LA9068 (Los Angeles Bureau): Stanford Cards begin final drill. Stanford's Cardinal-hued football players, 38 young men determined to avenge defeats in Rose Bowl encounters in the past two years, today opened their final week of practice for the New Year's Day game against Southern Methodist. Photo shows a group of players with their coaches (L-R: Hamilton; Grayson; assistant coach Nevers; Alustiza; Tiny Thornhill, coach; Coffis and Paulman) Bureaus: Your credit line must read (ACME) 12/25/35.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Bobby Grayson and Keith Topping.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Topping, Keith, 1912-1974
Grayson, Robert H. (Bobby) 1914-1981 - Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Football players--California--Palo Alto
Sports
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .