Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) / Subject: Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Lee Barnes was a part of the track team at University of Southern California from 1924 to 1928. He won gold in pole vaulting at the Paris Olympics in 1924.
Date:: [between 1924-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Lee Barnes lands his jump into the sand pit below him. The pole he used to vault himself over the crossbar is centered between the standard bars. A man in a hat, with back facing the camera, moves to grab Barnes' vaulting pole. Another man stands to the left of the standard bars, with the number "20" on his sweater, watching Barnes land. Lee Barnes was a part of the track team at University of Southern California from 1924 to 1928. He won gold in pole vaulting at the Paris Olympics in 1924.
Date:: [between 1924-1928]
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:: This photograph appears with the article, "TROJAN TRACK TEAM OVERWHELMS OXY, 107 TO 33: BUD HOUSER GRABS OFF TRIO OF FIRST PLACES U.S.C. Athletes Score Clean Sweep in Five Events; Les Heilman Breaks Trojan Record TROJAN TRACK OUTFIT WINS," Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 1926: A1
Date:: [February 20, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lillian Copeland at a track athletics event at the Coliseum in Los Angeles
Date:: [circa 1924-1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Lillian Copeland (center) and 2 other athletes crossing the finish line in a race at the Coliseum. Hurdles and the Coliseum grand stands ate in the background.
Date:: [circa 1924-1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Lillian Copeland was an American athlete who excelled in weight throwing. She has been called "the most successful female discus thrower in U.S. history," and held multiple titles in shot put and javelin throwing as well. In the 1928 Olympics she won the silver medal for the discus throw and in 1932 she won the gold medal in this event.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Reported in : “Nurmi thrill s 45,000 track fans; huge crowd sees Finn bust American record,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 1925: A1.
Date:: April 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photographs of different events from the same track meet appear with the article, "TROJAN TRACK TEAM OVERWHELMS OXY, 107 TO 33: BUD HOUSER GRABS OFF TRIO OF FIRST PLACES U.S.C. Athletes Score Clean Sweep in Five Events; Les Heilman Breaks Trojan Record TROJAN TRACK OUTFIT WINS," Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 1926: A1
Date:: [circa February 20, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two officials watch a track athlete in mid-jump at a track meet at the Coliseum between the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley.
Date:: March 20, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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