Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) / Date: 1928 - 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:: 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:: USC head football coach Howard Jones, instructing his team at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Howard Jones was the celebrated head coach for USC's football team from 1925 to 1940.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a football game between the UCLA Bruins and a Washington team (Huskies or Cougars).
Date:: [between 1926-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Peltzer, the world record holder at the 880 at the time, was particularly interested in running on the Coliseum track, which he praised as a fast track. Two months after this photograph was taken he ran against local racers and set a new Southern California record. During World War II, Peltzer was imprisoned by the Germans because was gay.
Date:: January 11, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: German track star Otto Peltzer works out at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after gaining permission from the German sports federation to run in three races while visited the United States.
Date:: January 11, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a few players on the field during a football game between the UCLA Bruins and a Washington team (probably the Washington State Cougars or the Washington Huskies) at the Coliseum.
Date:: [between 1923-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: John Henry Kuck was an American athlete who won a gold medal in the shot put at the 1928 Summer Olympics setting a new world record at 15.87 m. Before the Olympics, as a student at Kansas State Teachers College (Emporia State University) he was the 1926 national collegiate champion and world record holder in both the shot put and javelin.
Date:: [circa 1928-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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