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: 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: 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: This 40-page scrapbook compiled by the Timken Company documents the opening of the Pro Football Hall of Fame on September 7-8, 1963. The scrapbook was presented to Senator Frank Lausche, who was also a former governor of Ohio. The Pro Football Hall of Fame expanded in 1971, nearly doubling in size. By the end of the twentieth century the museum grew two more times and drew crowds of 200,000 people annually. The scrapbook measures 8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3203_4418080_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Sports; Football; Football players; Athletes; Pro Football Hall of Fame (U.S.); Parades; Galleries and museums
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 1960s photograph shows Fawcett Stadium and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The Pro Football Hall of Fame opened on September 7, 1963. The facility was expanded in 1971, nearly doubling in size. By the end of the twentieth century the museum expanded two more times and drew crowds of 200,000 people annually. This photograph measures 2.75" x 2.75" (6.99 x 6.99 cm). John A. Fawcett Stadium, named for a member of the Canton Board of Education, was completed in 1939. At the time it was the largest high school stadium in the United States. The stadium was renovated in 1997. Five teams call the field home: Glen Oak, McKinley, and Timken high schools, Malone College, and Walsh University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3048_3655556_001
Subjects: Sports; Architecture; Football; Football players; Athletes; Pro Football Hall of Fame (U.S.); Stadiums; Schools
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: A large football player figure stands above a sign reading "Campus Activities" outside of a Borden Burger on North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. Beneath the sign is a painted poster featuring a Bible verse from John 14:6. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B12F307_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Football players; Ohio State University -- Athletics;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Members of a little league football team sitting on the bench in their uniforms during a game, November 1968. An injured player is also seen cheering his team on. The boys wear jerseys reading "Worthington" as well as helmets labelled with their names View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07630
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Football--Ohio--History; Football players; Children
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of an early football team preparing to hike the ball, ca. 1910-1920. The young men are playing in a rural field against a backdrop of farm buildings and a windmill. The photo was possibly taken in the Upper Sandusky, Ohio, area. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07826
Subjects: Sports--Ohio--History; Teenagers; Football players; Sports teams
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a football player carrying the ball against a defender during a game, taken by Jeffrey Rycus of Columbus, Ohio. The image was one of ten to win Honorable Mention in the Professional category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B01_06
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Football players; Sports teams; Athletes; School sports
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern photographic print made from a glass plate negative depicting Ohio State University football player Chic Harley punting the ball, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1916-1919. Harley played for Ohio State 1916-1917 and 1919. He was an All-American all three years that he played, and was the first Ohio State player to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. His college career was interrupted in 1918 when he served as a fighter pilot in World War I. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07842
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Football players; Ohio State University--Athletics
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Eleven slides of the Big Ten championship game between Ohio State and Michigan held on November 23, 1968 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. Ohio State fullback Jim Otis scored four touchdowns and rushed for 143 yards, leading the Buckeyes to victory with a score of 50-14. Ohio State went on to win the Rose Bowl against Southern California that year. It was the first Big Ten title for Ohio State since 1961 and the first Rose Bowl victory since 1958. The slides measure 2" x 2" (5.08 x 5.08 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3111_3735546_001
Subjects: Sports; Education; Universities and colleges; Football; Sports rivalries; Stadiums; Football players; Athletes; Crowds
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph identified as the 1898 Central High School football team. The chalk board in the front row reads "C.H.S. Champions, 1898." There were multiple Central High Schools in Ohio during the 1890s--the one seen here may be in Columbus, Canton or Cleveland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS3511
Subjects: Portrait photography; Football players; Athletes; Sports teams
Places: Ohio