Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Sports - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Tackle during an American Pro Football League game between the Los Angeles Bulldogs and the Rochester Tigers at Gilmore Stadium. The exciting game kept the 17,000 fans on their toes and ended with a victory for the Bulldogs, who defeated the Tigers 48-21
Date:: November 14, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wrestler Dean Detton supported by the referee during his match with wrestler/football player Bronko Nagurski at Olympic Auditorium. Nagurski injured Detton's left arm during the match and eventually emerged victorious, thus retaining his World Heavyweight title.
Date:: November 17, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sandor Szabo and "Big Ben" Morgan wrestle downtown in Los Angeles' Grand Olympic stadium on June 30, 1937. Szabo won the match in 18 minutes in 52 seconds.
Date:: June 30, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wrestling match between Italian newcomer Vincent Austeri and Salt Lake City native Del Kunkel at Olympic Auditorium. It Austeri's first time at the Auditorium and he was victorious.
Date:: March 16, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Heavyweight wrestler El Pulpo grappling with an opponent at the Olympic Auditorium. A nearby referee watches closely. He became known as the "Octopus Man" due to his ability to entangle his adversaries.
Date:: [circa December 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Race horse Enfilade with a bunch of hay in the Santa Anita Park stables. Enfilade is owned by C.V. Whitney
Date:: [March 9, 1946]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Howard Jones, USC football coach from 1925-1940, bowling. Jones led the University of Southern California Trojans to four Rose Bowls, winning all of them. Jones also coached at Syracuse, Yale, Ohio State, University of Iowa, and Duke. He also won the Rose Bowl with Yale. Jones was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.Photo was probably put in the wrong sleeve as it doesn't appear to relate to the WPA Garden Project
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles's Wrigley Field was built in 1925 and torn down in 1966. It was host to minor league baseball teams and home of the Los Angeles Angeles. The field is named after the same Wrigley as Wrigley Field in Chicago, but it actually received the name first and had more on-site parking than Chicago's field does now.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: USC Bruins punt during a football game against the Ohio State Buckeyes Buckeyes at the Coliseum.
Date:: October 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Football players at Manual Arts High School run drills during practice.
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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