Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Godfrey, George, 1897-1947 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Former boxing world champion and now referee Max Baer stands between George Godfrey, "the black shadow of Leiperville" (left), and Hank Hankinson during a boxing match between the two men at Olympic Auditorium. Hankinson was the winner of the match after Godfrey threw in the towel in the 8th round. Godfrey's loss was attributed to his age
Date:: August 10, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer, wearing dress pants and a tie, lifting an anvil outside a brick building with a sign reading "KHJ" over the door. The location may be the KHJ radio studio and towers atop the Los Angeles Times building at 1st and Broadway.
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: This photograph is similar to another one of George Godfrey captioned "Doin The Charleston." Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 1925: B1.
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: Heavyweight boxer George Godfrey with his brother in a mock confrontation, both in crouching positions and with his brother holding up a beverage bottle by its neck, outside a brick building. Both wearing suits, hats and ties, and George's hat is a straw boater. Other photographs taken on this occasion show a sign reading "KHJ" over a doorway. The location may be the KHJ radio studio and towers atop the Los Angeles Times building at 1st and Broadway.
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

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