Historical Football Photos

[RedSoxVT92]

I thought that like BBF, PSF should also have a historical photograph thread.

So feel free to post any pictures that are from anytime in football's past.

[RedSoxVT92]

Canton Bulldogs 1922-23 season

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/f4/250px-Canton_bulldogs.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

Walter Camp, Yale 1878-79 "Father of American Football"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Walter_Camp_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_18048.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

Boston Patriots first AFL game ever, 9/9/60
http://www.mikestanhope.com/DBBP1960.JPG

[RedSoxVT92]

William "Pudge" Heffelfinger 1892, The first professional football player in history
http://www.profootballhof.com/images/content/photos/heffelfinger_110800.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

Charles Follis (carrying football) early 1900's, The first professional African American football player
http://www.profootballhof.com/assets/default/Follis_Action.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

Bart Starr's winning touchdown in the 1967 Ice Bowl
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Ice_Bowl_Photo.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

The Morgan Athletic Club 1898
http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nfl/azchi/morganaccards.JPG

[RedSoxVT92]

Frankford Yellowjackets vs Dayton Triangles 1926
http://ghosts.footballhistory.org/pic_Yellowjackets_Dayton_1926.jpg
Frankfords, Guy Chamberlain (left) and Johhhy Budd (right) chasing Daytons Faye Abbott (Carrying Ball)

[RedSoxVT92]

The Immaculate Reception in the 1972 AFC Divisional Playoff Game
http://www.profootballhof.com/assets/story_image/immaculate_112800.jpg

[ktss12]

The Immaculate Reception in the 1972 AFC Divisional Playoff Game
http://www.profootballhof.com/assets/story_image/immaculate_112800.jpg

This picture has to go.......Franco never caught that ball, it bounced off Frenchy Fuqua, the refs blew the call.....why must you torment me!!!!!

25 years of therapy....down the drain...I think I can hear the voices again...........no you can't............someone help me :( :mad:

[ATLFalcons]

The Most Lopsided Win In Football History!!!!

Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland College 0

http://gtalumni.org/news/ttopics/fall92/images/football.gif

[RedSoxVT92]

The Northwestern Football Team 1889
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/exhibits/football/1889team.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

Jim Thorpe, The most versitle athlete of all time as he won Olympic golds in the Pentathlon and Decathlon (and competed in countless more Olympic events), Football HoFer, Major League Baseball outfielder and even played Basketball
http://www.pacounties.org/carlisleborough/lib/carlisleborough/Jim_Thorpe.jpghttp://www.endzone.it/images/uploads/articoli/thorpe9bis.JPGhttp://www.hello-online.ru/img/120/thorpe-2.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

Curly Lambeau, Green Bay Packers player, coach and founder
http://www.packerpalace.com/blog/Lambeau-Curly4s.jpg

[football junkie]

Broadway Joe Namath -- NFL's first 4,000 yard passer:
http://sportsmed.starwave.com/classic/2001/0111/photo/c_namathleap_i.jpg

Why they called him Broadway Joe:
http://www.onlinesports.com/images/ssg-ujn-16g.gif

[RedSoxVT92]

Ray Guy Super Bowl XV January 25 1981, The greatest punter of all time
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Rguy.jpg

[mordeci]

William "Pudge" Heffelfinger 1892, The first professional football player in history

I see that you chose to keep your baseball-fever name for the sake of continuity, as did I.

Pudge was the first paid player because, at 170 lbs, he was much larger than any of his contemporaries. He also was the first 'wedge buster'. during the days of the mass momentum plays all the players would lock hands and escort the ball carrier down the field. Pudge was the first player to jump over the escorts and put his knees into the chest of the ball carrier. I can see Urlacher doing that.

[RedSoxVT92]

I see that you chose to keep your baseball-fever name for the sake of continuity, as did I.

Pudge was the first paid player because, at 170 lbs, he was much larger than any of his contemporaries. He also was the first 'wedge buster'. during the days of the mass momentum plays all the players would lock hands and escort the ball carrier down the field. Pudge was the first player to jump over the escorts and put his knees into the chest of the ball carrier. I can see Urlacher doing that.

I did not know that, thanks for the info.

[RedSoxVT92]

1882 Rutgers Football Team
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/1882RutgersFootballTeam.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

1898 Colgate Football Team in the Infamous V or Flying Wedge Formation
http://www4.colgate.edu/scene/sept2004/images/13a.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

The Oorang Indians, The smallest town (La Rue, more of a villiage) in history to have a NFL team, and was made of all Native Americans
http://www.gridirongreats.net/images/lassa.jpg......................................... ....................http://www.profootballhof.com/images/content/photos/oorang.jpg
Nick Lassa 1922 Oorang Indians........................................... ..............The 1922 Oorang Indians

[RedSoxVT92]

Warren Moon Edmonton Eskimos 1978, CFL/NFL Quarterback Great, First Undrafted/African American Quaterback Inducted into the HoF
http://www.geocities.com/cfl_historical/Edmonton/Moon.Warren1.JPG

[OswaldTheOsprey]

The Most Lopsided Win In Football History!!!!

Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland College 0

http://gtalumni.org/news/ttopics/fall92/images/football.gif

This record is one that will probably never be broken,
not even by Steve Spurrier!

Seriously, I think that it and Cy Young's better than
500 wins as a baseball pitcher are untouchable.

OswaldTheOsprey:D

[ATLFalcons]

This record is one that will probably never be broken,
not even by Steve Spurrier!

Seriously, I think that it and Cy Young's better than
500 wins as a baseball pitcher are untouchable.

OswaldTheOsprey:D
Yep, the playing field is somewhat leveled now and if any team comes close to it the coach will get blasted.

[RedSoxVT92]

Doug Fluite after the hail mary in 1984 as Boston College beat Miami 47-45 in the final seconds. One of the most memorable plays in college football history
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v13/n18/flutie.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

Pete Henry, a tremoundous tackle for the Canton Bulldogs who despite his size was very swift, and was also a very stong kicker. Inducted in to the HoF in 1963
http://www.profootballhof.com/images/upload/items/medium/01174_3272.jpg

[RedSoxVT92]

Harry Agganis BU 1951, A talented athlete who was the number one draft choice of the Cleavland Browns but instead turned it down to sign with the Red Sox. Sadly he died of a blood clot at the young age of 26
http://www.bu.edu/today/news/photos/agganis.jpg

[mordeci]

Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland College 0
One of my all-time favorite stats from any single game. Total combined first downs by both teams: 0

uh . . . does that fact that I have 'favorite stats' make me a geek? Oh well, if that doesn't thousands of other things do.

[boomer]

Boston Patriots first AFL game ever, 9/9/60
http://www.mikestanhope.com/DBBP1960.JPG
Anyone notice the vertical stripes on the socks of the Denver Broncos ballcarrier? Never quite caught on.:eek:

[Steve_Atwater]

Anyone notice the vertical stripes on the socks of the Denver Broncos ballcarrier? Never quite caught on.:eek:

What can I say, vertical stripes are slimming :p

Seriously, if you are to stink as bad as the Broncos did in their AFL years, you might as well look good doing it.

Denver did win that game, tough.

[OswaldTheOsprey]

The Most Lopsided Win In Football History!!!!

Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland College 0

http://gtalumni.org/news/ttopics/fall92/images/football.gif

Who was Georgia Tech's coach?

OswaldTheOsprey:cool:

[Wolverine]

Bill Alexander, who had a long, distinguished career at Tech:

http://collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=30033

"Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne once said, 'Bill gets more out of nothing than any coach in America.'"

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Bill Alexander, who had a long, distinguished career at Tech:

http://collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=30033

"Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne once said, 'Bill gets more out of nothing than any coach in America.'"

Not for the 1916 Cumberland game. Guess again.

OswaldTheOsprey

[Wolverine]

I guess all those "2's" got to me. I thought the game was in 1922, during the Alexander era, but it was earlier. The coach at GT in 1916 was possibly the most famous name in college football history after Rockne:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heisman

"Heisman's running up the score against a totally outmanned opponent was supposedly motivated by revenge against Cumberland's baseball team running up the score against Tech 22-0 the previous year."

He coached at 8 colleges (primarily Clemson) which probably explains why I never associated him with any particular school.

[OswaldTheOsprey]

I guess all those "2's" got to me. I thought the game was in 1922, during the Alexander era, but it was earlier. The coach at GT in 1916 was possibly the most famous name in college football history after Rockne:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heisman

"Heisman's running up the score against a totally outmanned opponent was supposedly motivated by revenge against Cumberland's baseball team running up the score against Tech 22-0 the previous year."

He coached at 8 colleges (primarily Clemson) which probably explains why I never associated him with any particular school.

He also coached at Auburn. Pat Sullivan (1971) and Bo Jackson (1985)
are the only Heisman Trophy winners from a school Heisman coached at.

OswaldTheOsprey

[C. Snake]

Don't ever talk about THAT play.

[Patriot Reign]

This award winning photograph of Y.A. Tittle of the NY Giants seen exhausted and bleeding from his forehead. It was taken on 9/20/64 after a 27-24 loss to the Steelers at Pitt Stadium.

http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/SSProfiles/30054733/Images/YATittle16x20Clear.JPG