Elmer Boyden's spectacular triumph over Percy Niersbach at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Item Overview

Title

Elmer Boyden's spectacular triumph over Percy Niersbach at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Photographer

Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Anderson, H. C.

Date Created

March 20, 1926

Date

1926-03-20

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Elmer Boyden's (University of California at Berkeley track team member) wins a half-mile race with Percy Niersbach (University of Southern California track team member) coming up on the right, in the Coliseum, with track officials watching.
Reported in "Long String of Bruin Victories Is Broken," Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar 1926: A1.
Caption for similar photograph taken at the same event: At the bottom is the finish of the half-mile, displaying Elmer Boyden's spectacular triumph over Percy Niersbach. [Photos by George Watson and H. C. Anderson, Times staff photographers]

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Track, U. S. C. vs. California

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Boyden, Elmer Everett, 1902-1961
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Niersbach, Percy, 1905-1992

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.013823

Latitude

-118.288047

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles