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

Description:: At center, Lee Barnes, a U.S.C. vaulter, is captured falling through the air after he crosses over the bar during a record-setting vault attempt. His body is angled towards camera and facing the ground. He stretches an arm over his head as he passes behind the bar. In front of him, the bar stands at center. On the ground, another athlete stands near the left edge and watches Barnes' jump. Another man stands with his back to camera at center. In the distance, the field stretches back towards the stadium's seats, which line the background.
Date:: [February 27, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Robert H., b. 1889
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three runners in USC uniforms and one runner in a white Stanford uniform are about to cross the finish line on the track at the Coliseum. Officials officials observe. Spectators are seated in the grandstand in the distance.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Three runners in USC uniforms and one runner in a white Stanford uniform jump hurdles on the track at the Coliseum Officials officials in the background observe. Spectators are seated in the grandstand in the distance.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This is a photograph of Bud Houser in the throwing event of discus. He is wearing a track uniform of the University of Southern California, where he was a student from 1922 to 1926. In this photograph, Houser has just released his discus in his characteristic style. In the background, other athletes and onlookers watch the discus [not in frame] as it travels.
Date:: [Between 1922 and 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At center, a Stanford vaulter is captured mid-air as he descends from his vault attempt and lands in the vaulting pit. He appears to right himself in the air with outstretched arms. The pit extends in front of him to the right. In the foreground at left, a meet official stands with his back to camera and looks up towards the vaulting bar. The bar sits high above and to the left of the vaulter at center. Beyond the vaulting event area, the field and stands at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum stretch across the background.
Date:: [circa May 5, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photographs taken at the same dual track meet appear with the articles, “How Trojans Tripped Stanford,” Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D3, and “Boys Outdo Themselves to Run Away with Meet Southern California Scores Easy 82 2-3 to 48 1-3 Win Over Rivals as Records Fall,” Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D1
Date:: [circa May 5, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Charley paddock was a two time Olympic gold medal winner for the 100 meter race and a USC graduate.
Date:: June 16, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 11, 1928, Track Athletes Bear Down in Final Week of Practice Before Olympic Tryouts … Ralph Smith’s vault of 13 ft. 5 in. stamps that young man as a chap to keep track of in competition …
Date:: 1928?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: Reported in the article, "Trojans Picked To Defeat Olympic Club Track Team Here Tomorrow Afternoon," 16 Mar. 1928: B1.
Date:: March 17, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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