Curtis McFadden broad jumps during the S.C. and Stanford dual track meet, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Curtis McFadden broad jumps during the S.C. and Stanford dual track meet, Los Angeles, 1934

Photographer

Coffey, Fred Everett, 1891-1947

Date Created

[May 5, 1934]

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Notes

Description

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum track stretches across the foreground. Just beyond it, U.S.C. Trojan, Curtis McFadden, appears to hover in mid-air at center as he broad jumps. He is viewed from the side and faces right. His legs extend straight in front of him as he leans his chest towards his legs. His arms fly back behind him. On the far side of the landing pit, several meet officials stand in a row alongside the pit and face towards camera. A marker behind and to the left of McFadden reads, "23 6." The stadium's seats stretch across the background.
This photograph appears with the articles, “How Trojans Tripped Stanford,” Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D3, and “Boys Outdo Themselves to Run Away with Meet Southern California Scores Easy 82 2-3 to 48 1-3 Win Over Rivals as Records Fall,” Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D1

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: TRACK, S.C. VS. STANFORD, 1934
Text from newspaper caption, Leaping Right Down His Coach's Throat Here's Curtis McFadden of the Trojans making his winning jump of 24ft. 5in. in yesterday's meet with Stanford. McFadden had to fight his way into the event, his name not even appearing on the original entry list although he had the best competitive mark of the S.C. jumpers. Crawford and Olson of the Trojans made it a clean sweep by taking the other two places. [Times photo by Fred Coffey]. [Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D3]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles
Jumping--California--Los Angeles
Track athletics--California--Los Angeles

Names

Stanford University
University of Southern California--Track and field
McFadden, Curtis N., 1911-1982
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.013625

Latitude

-118.287837

Resource type

still image