Johnny Weissmuller demonstrates his golf swing in front of a group of unidentified S.M.U. football players, Pasadena, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Johnny Weissmuller demonstrates his golf swing in front of a group of unidentified S.M.U. football players, Pasadena, 1935

Date Created

December 28, 1935

Date

1935-12-28

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the headline, "How Stanford and S.M.U. Players Spend Their Spare Time Before the Battle," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: A15.
Johnny positions his golf club before the ball, while a group of ten of the players watch him.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4336 - Billy Stamps. Johnny Weissmuller Harry Shuford Arthur Johnson John Sprage John Stuffleborne Loamon Phillips Shelly Burt J R Smith Maurice Orr Bill Tipton Cecil Colville Bob Turner S.M.U Team at Hotel Scenes 12-28-35. [stamped:] Jan 3-1936
Handwritten on negative: Johnny Weissmuller + S.M.U. Team 12/28/35
Text from newspaper caption: JOHNNY (TARZAN) WEISSMULLER SHOWS MUSTANG PLAYERS HOW IT'S DONE A group of the Southern Methodist players paid a visit to Brookside Park yesterday where they saw many of the country's leading golfers in action in the Pasadena Open. Here's Weismuller, demonstrating his driving form for edification of the interested players.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Weissmuller, Johnny, 1904-1984
Southern Methodist University
Brookside Park (Pasadena, Calif.)

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Golf--California--Pasadena
Football players--California--Pasadena
Actors--American--California--Pasadena