Description: Boys and girls swim meet, March 1970. Fans watch as young women begin their event. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07635
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Swimming; Sports for women; Sports--Ohio--History
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Boys on the field during a little league football game, October 1968. A referee watches as an offensive player tries to push off a defender. The green jerseys read "Nicklaus Drugs," a small pharmacy chain owned and operated by Charlie Nicklaus, father of golfer Jack Nicklaus, around the Upper Arlington neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07643
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Football; Football players; Football--Ohio--History; Sports--Ohio--History; Sports teams
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group portrait of the Columbus Panhandles football team in 1907. The men are identified from left to right as: John Nesser, Frank Nesser, Reagan Burton, Andy Kertzinger, Chief Henry, Ed Hughes, Joe Carr (founder and manager), Harry Greenwood, Phil Nesser, Fred Nesser, Baker, and Carlise. The Panhandles were one of the first professional football teams to join the American Professional Football Association, later renamed the National Football League, when it formed in 1920. They operated as a professional football franchise from 1920-1922, then again from 1923-1926. At the time this photograph was taken, the team played their home games at Indianola Park in Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05258
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Football; Columbus (Ohio); Sports teams; Sports--Ohio--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Spectators in the bleachers at a little league football game scenes, November 1968. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07631
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Sports; Children; Football--Ohio--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Ohio State marching band performing a half time show for the fans, during the Ohio State University football game versus the University of Michigan in Ohio Stadium, Columbus, Ohio, November 1968. The two teams are long-time rivals and the game is a big draw for crowds each fall. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07632
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Ohio State University Football History; Ohio State University--Athletics; Ohio State University--Football; Ohio State University--Sports--History; Marching bands
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Boys and girls swim meet, March 1970. Fans watch as young men start their event. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07634
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Swimming; Sports--Ohio--History
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Boys and girls swim meet, March 1970. Young men are shown standing on their starting blocks as they prepare for their event. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07636
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Swimming; Sports--Ohio--History
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Boys and girls swim meet, March 1970. Fans and swimmers watch young men competing in their event. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07637
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Swimming; Sports--Ohio--History
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Boys on the field during a little league football game, October 1968. Fans and parents watch from the sidelines as the ball is snapped. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07642
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Sports--Ohio--History; Football--Ohio--History; Football players; Football
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern photographic print made from a glass plate negative depicting a group of Ohio State University football fans and players on the sidelines, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1920. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07844
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Sports--Ohio--History; Ohio State University--Football
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a team photograph of the Oorang Tribe football team with Jim Thorpe in the second row center, October 27, 1922. The team, a National Football League franchise, was sponsored and managed by Airedale terrier breeder Walter Lingo. All of the players were Native American. They were based in LaRue, Ohio, the location of Lingo's kennels. Thorpe served as the team coach and a celebrity spokesperson for Oorang Airedales, and played a few games. The team played two disappointing seasons in the NFL during the years 1922 and 1923. In 1922 their record was 5 wins and 8 losses; in 1923, 2 wins and 10 losses. Jim (James Francis) Thorpe was born in 1888 in Oklahoma to Hiram P. and Charlotte Thorpe. Both Hiram and Charlotte were of European and American Indian heritage and Jim was raised in the Sac and Fox tribes. In 1904 he was sent to a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for American Indian children. While at Carlisle he played multiple sports, including football, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, and track. He left Carlisle in 1909 and 1910 to play professional baseball with teams in Eastern Carolina League in North Carolina. He returned to Carlisle in 1911 for two successful football seasons. In both 1911 and 1912 he was an All-American halfback for football. In 1912 he became the only person to win gold medals in both the pentathlon and decathlon at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. His Olympic celebrity propelled him a three year contract playing professional baseball for the New York Giants. He also played baseball with the Boston Braves and Cincinnati Reds. However, it was as a professional football player that Thorpe was more successful and strongly tied to Ohio. He was associated with four professional or semi-professional football teams in Ohio as a player and coach: the Canton Bulldogs, the Cleveland Tigers, the Oorang Indians based in LaRue, and the Portsmouth Shoe-Steels. His greatest success was with the Canton Bulldogs, which he led to win national championships in 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1919. From 1922-1923 he was a player and coach for the Oorang Indians, a National Football League team comprised of all native players. The majority of the Oorang Indians team members, like Thorpe, had played at Carlisle. The team owner, Robert Lingo, used the team and Thorpes celebrity to advertise his Oorang Kennels Company, particularly his Airedale terriers. Thorpe played another season with the Bulldogs in 1926 and then went to Portsmouth as a player-coach for the semi-professional Portsmouth Shoe-Steels in 1927. This was Thorpes last athletic job. During the 1930s and 1940s he worked a variety of jobs until he died of a heart attack in 1953. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07881
Subjects: Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Football players; Football--Ohio--History; Sports teams
Places: LaRue (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a Cincinnati-area high school cross country track team, November 2, 1965. Courter Tech, or Claude V. Courter Technical High School, was located on the former location of Central Avenue High School, both part of the Cincinnati Public School District. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07894
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Sports teams; Athletes
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)