Subject: Whittier College (Whittier, Calif.) / Genre: news photographs / Resource Type: still image / Location: Whittier (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A similar photograph taken during the same game is titled, "Why Football Players Don't Live Long," Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 1925: A3
Date:: October 31, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A procession of academics and distinguished guests moves toward the outdoor amphitheater where the inauguration ceremony will be held for W. O. Mendenhall. Spectators watch from beside the building in the background.
Date:: September 21, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The camera looks across the field at Whittier College during the football between the Poets and the Occidental Tigers. In the near distance, off-center to the left, an Oxy player runs with the ball towards the end zone at left. Ahead of him, a Whittier defender tries to stop him. The remaining on-field players watch the immediate play from a distance. Campus buildings rise in the background at left and fans fill the stands at right.
Date:: [circa October 31, 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Graduates Led By Mrs. Hoover," Los Angeles Times, 11 Jun. 1933: C10.
Date:: June 10, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Leo Calland (left) head coach of Athletics, and Stanford Rohrbaugh, freshman football coach at at Whittier College, on the athletic field. Rohrbaugh wears a football uniform.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: William O. Mendenhall was installed as the president of Whittier College in a ceremony on September 21, 1934. Among the distinguished guests were Lou Henry Hoover, Dr. Robert L. Kelly, and Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
Date:: September 21, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The camera looks across the field at Whittier College during the 1925 football game between Occidental College and Whittier College. Off-center to the left, the majority of the players are tangled up in a pile-up. Oxy Tiger center, Solly Mishkin, carries the ball in front and at the center of the pile-up. He drops to his knees as Whittier's defenders tackle him from behind. Crowds fill the stands in the background. Off-center to the right, a campus building rises behind the stands.
Date:: [circa October 31, 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Student Joyce McGovern holds an open book in the library of Whittier College.
Date:: [circa November 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “Rites Held at College,” Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep 1934: 8.
Date:: September 21, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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