Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Sports - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: 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

Description:: Spectators at a wrestling match, probably at Olympic Auditorium. One man is standing, clapping, and yelling.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: LA Daily News city editor Charles Judson participates in a series demonstrating "right" and "wrong" golf swings with local pro golfer and golf instructor Fay Coleman. Judson represents the "wrong" form for each swing.
Date:: [between 1935-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: LA Daily News city editor Charles Judson participates in a series demonstrating "right" and "wrong" golf swings with local pro golfer and golf instructor Fay Coleman. Judson represents the "wrong" form for each swing.
Date:: [between 1935-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: LA Daily News city editor Charles Judson participates in a series demonstrating "right" and "wrong" golf swings with local pro golfer and golf instructor Fay Coleman. Judson represents the "wrong" form for each swing.
Date:: [between 1935-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: LA Daily News city editor Charles Judson participates in a series demonstrating "right" and "wrong" golf swings with local pro golfer and golf instructor Fay Coleman. Judson represents the "wrong" form for each swing
Date:: [between 1935-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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