Football -- United States -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Professional Football Annual Publications - Magazine Format Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_195
Scope and Contents
This collection contains annual publications in magazine format devoted primarily to professional football. The magazines mostly cover the National Football League and its rival leagues. Some magazines also provide information about football teams and leagues at other levels. The magazines published prior to the season—or sometimes during the season—generally included reviews of the previous year’s season; team and players statistics; and previews of the upcoming—or in-progress—season,...
Dates:
1935-1997
Professional Football Leagues (NFL and AFL) All-Star Games Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_625
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 40 professional football all-star game programs. Leagues represented include the National Football League (NFL, 1922-) and the American Football League (AFL, 1960-1969). The collection includes mostly NFL Pro-Bowl programs with a small number of AFL All-Star game programs. The programs typically contain photographs, statistics, and rosters of the players on the All-Star teams. Many programs also contain articles about the history of the All-Star game,...
Dates:
1951-1991
Professional Football Playoff and Championship Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_620
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 75 professional football playoff and championship game programs. Leagues represented include the National Football League (NFL, 1922-); the All-America Football Conference (AAFC, 1946-1949); and the American Football League (AFL, 1960-1969). The collection includes 41 Super Bowl programs. Inscribed signatures are present as noted. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the game. Some...
Dates:
1948-2013
Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 1001
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers consist of a group of notebooks compiled by football coach Reginald W. P. "Reggie" Brown. Five notebooks (1904, 1905, 1905, 1911, and 1914) document Brown’s years as an assistant coach at Harvard University. One notebook (1928) comes from his stint as the head football coach at Boston University. The 1904 and 1905 notebooks chronicle the events of those Harvard seasons through clippings, practice notes, games notes, play diagrams, game...
Dates:
1904-1997; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1939
Roger Ellis Professional Football Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10103
Scope and Contents
Papers related to the professional football career of Roger Ellis. Materials include original contracts from the American Football League, the National Football League, and the Canadian Football League; correspondence and ephemera from his playing days from several teams including the New York Giants, New York Titans, New York Jets, the Oakland Area Football Club, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Montreal Alouette. The correspondence documents the daily life of a professional football...
Dates:
1957-2008; Majority of material found within 1957-1964
San Francisco Bay Area Football Scrapbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1010
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 51 scrapbooks, most measuring 10.5 x 15 inches, covering primarily college and professional football in the San Francisco Bay area. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown person and contain clippings dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sources include San Francisco and Oakland newspapers, as well as other newspapers and magazines. Clippings include game reports, new stories, images, cartoons, advertisements, and other content. Scrapbooks 1 to 10 are...
Dates:
1945-1953
Ted Coy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1007
Content Description
The Ted Coy Papers document the football career and life of Edward H. "Ted" Coy (1888-1935), best known for being a two-time All-American football player at Yale University. One scrapbooks and two photo albums contain materials, including photographs, correspondence, school records and ephemera, related to Coy's athletic, academic, and social activities at the Hotchkiss School. One scrapbook includes mainly newspaper clippings documents the 1909 Yale football season. One scrapbook contains...
Dates:
1902-1932; Majority of material found within 1902-1909; 1928-1929
The Yale-Harvard Game Board Game
Collection — Box MSSP10108 Box: [Barcode: 00000039198775]
Identifier: MSSP_10108
Scope and Contents
One board game for two players designed to simulate the annual Yale vs. Harvard football game. The box cover depicts about 12 players in a scrum on a football field. Players wear either blue for Yale or red for Harvard, and the cover features Harvard and Yale pennants on the top left and the top right of the box. The box also features a referee watching the action, a grandstand filled with fans, and a single goalpost.The cardboard game board depicts a football field with cheering...
Dates:
1894
United States Football League (USFL) Team Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP 543
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of media guides for the original incarnation of the United States Football League during its three seasons of play in 1983, 1984, and 1985. The media guides typically contain pictures, articles, bios, and statistics about the players on the teams, as well as pictures, information, and bios about coaches and other team personnel, including owners, administrators, trainers, and cheerleaders. The guides usually also contain historical and contemporary information about...
Dates:
1983-1985
XFL Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP 544
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of media guides for the original incarnation of the XFL during its only season of play in 2001. The media guides typically contain pictures, articles, bios, and statistics about the players on the teams, as well as pictures, information, and bios about coaches and other team personnel, including owners, administrators, and trainers, as well as advertisements. Many of the media guides contain several pages of information about the team’s cheerleaders. Formats...
Dates:
2001