Football players
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
1940s Chicago Football Scrapbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1012
Content Description
This collection consists of 5 scrapbooks pertaining mainly to football in the Chicago-area. Most of the clippings orginated in the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Subjects featured in the scrapbooks include the annual Chicago Tribune All-Star Charity Games, the NFL Chicago Bears, and other college bowl games.
Dates:
1941-1946
All-America Football Conference (AAFC) Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_618
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 100 All-America Football Conference regular season and pre-season exhibition game programs. This collection excludes post-season playoff game programs and all-star game programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, data about the participating teams, and advertisements.Formats include...
Dates:
1946-1949
American Football League (AFL) Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_615
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 400 American Football League regular season and pre-season exhibition game programs. This collection excludes post-season playoff game programs and all-star game programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, data about the participating teams, and advertisements. The programs tend to become longer and more...
Dates:
1960-1969
College Football Annual Publications - Magazine Format Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBC_199
Scope and Contents
This collection contains annual publications in magazine format devoted primarily to college football. The magazines mostly cover major college football teams and conferences in the United States. 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...
Dates:
1946-2001
Homer C. Selby Portsmouth Spartans Football Team Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1006
Content Description
This collection consists of 30 letters and telegrams to and from Homer Clifford Selby (1880-1959) about the National Football League's Portsmouth Spartans franchise located in Portsmouth, Ohio. Selby was a local shoe company executive, who in late 1931 assumed leadership of a local committee charged with rescuing the Portsmouth franchise from debt and insolvency. Selby remained involved through the end of the 1933 season, but the committee's work was unsuccessul and could not pay down the...
Dates:
1931-1934
John DeWitt Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1003
Content Description
The primary item in this collection is one personal scrapbook kept by Princeton University football player John R. DeWitt during his time on the team from 1901-1903. The scrapbook includes news clippings, ephemera, photographs, telegrams, and other items. The collection also includes a few loose items. Materials in the scrapbook are chronologically arranged, and cover the 1902 and 1903 football seasons (with emphasis on the 1903 victory over Yale) and the 1903 and 1904 seasons in track and...
Dates:
1899-1931; Majority of material found within 1902-1904
Mid-Twentieth Century Football Scrapbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1011
Content Description
This collection consists of 21 scrapbooks in loose-leaf binders about college and professional football in the years after World War Two. Spanning the years from 1946 to 1957, the scrapbooks mostly contain newspaper clippings, but also include magazine articles, programs, and game charts. The scrapbooks cover football on a national scale, though many scrapbook have an on pro and college teams from California and on the University of Notre Dame. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown...
Dates:
1946-1957
Pre-1940 College Football Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBC_610
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 2,400 college football game programs dating from the nineteenth century until 1939. The collection emphasizes prominent major college football teams, but hundreds of different four-year colleges from all parts of the United States are represented. Holdings for schools from the West are particularly strong. Most of the programs are from after 1921 with fewer than 100 programs for games from 1920 or before. The programs typically contain pictures, articles,...
Dates:
1874-1939
Pre-1970 National Football League (NFL) Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_610
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 1,750 National Football League regular season and pre-season exhibition game programs dating from the 1920s until 1969. This collection excludes post-season games and all-star games. Most of the programs are from after 1940 with only about 75 programs for games from before 1940. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team...
Dates:
1926-1969
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
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