Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Sports and People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Harold "Red" Grange, in Chicago Bears sweatshirt and athletic shoes, and C.C. Pyle, in suit and tie, holding hat and cigarette, both on one knee on Coliseum field, with empty seats in background and another man partially visible at right
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Red Grange and George Wilson Collide Today, All-American Stars in Great Coliseum Game, Expect More Than 75,000 Fans to Watch Athletes in Action; Bears Doped to Win,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 1926: 9
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Harold "Red" Grange, in Chicago Bears sweatshirt and athletic shoes, with C.C.Pyle, in suit, tie, and hat, holding cigarette, arm around Grange's shoulder, both standing on Coliseum field, with about 6 other men, some in athletic clothing, and empty seats in background
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: George Godfrey, "The Leiperville Shadow," was the ring name of Feab Smith Williams, a heavyweight boxer from the state of Alabama who fought from 1919-1937. Godfrey twice won the World Colored Heavyweight Championship. In 2003, Godfrey was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Date:: [circa 1926-1927 ]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Army Boxer Stops Rival" [Los Angeles Times, October 15, 1935]
Date:: October 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spectators watching golfers at the Wilshire Country Club with the back of the original club house (designed by architects Hunt and Brun) visible in the background (now a parking lot at the corner of Rossmore Ave. and Beverly Blvd.)
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lee Stratford Barnes was an American athlete who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris in the men's pole vault and won the gold medal.
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige seated next to bleachers. The location may be Thomas Jefferson High School at Hopner and 41st St.
Date:: [circa 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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