Description: Photograph of members of the Young Americans basketball team, 1908. They were a member of the Central Basketball League. Their final season (1910-1911) they were called "The Homestead Steeltowners." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06316
Subjects: Sports; Photography--History; Basketball teams; Sports teams
Places: Pennsylvania
 

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: 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: 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: Portrait of Parley Pratt from "Historical and Biographical Souvenir of the Ohio School for the Deaf," published in Columbus, Ohio, in 1898. In addition to a history of the school's operation, the book includes "portraits and biographical sketches of representative alumni" such as Pratt. His biographical sketch states that Pratt was born in Pennsylvania in 1838, and lost his hearing due to illness at the age of 3. His family moved to Cincinnati in 1848, and Pratt was enrolled in the Ohio School for the Deaf around age 10. After graduating, he was appointed foreman of the school's shoe shop, a trade which he continued to follow throughout his career. He was recognized for introducing baseball to the Ohio School for the Deaf, and was manager for the school baseball club the Independents during their successful 1879 tour around the country. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 362_4H629_Pratt
Subjects: Deafness; Ohio School for the Deaf; Baseball--History; Baseball teams; Sports--Ohio--History;
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: The photograph shows eleven young men dressed in turtlenecks playing football in a field. They are lined up with an older man in a suit, perhaps a coach, standing behind them. The young man on the far left wears a soft helmet. Farm buildings and trees lie behind them. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley 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: AV30_B01F01_54
Subjects: Football--Ohio--History; Sports--Ohio--History; Sports teams
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot 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)
 

Description: The Cleveland Indians won the American League championship in 1948, the year this pennant was produced. The Indians went on to win the World Series later that year. The team also set an attendance record of 2,602,627 in 1948 and lead American League in batting average and E.R.A. (earned run average). The pennant is made of red, white, and yellow felt with red and white lettering and measures approximately 8.5" x 23.75" (21 x 60 cm). Although professional baseball in Cleveland dates back to 1869, Cleveland played in the first American League game April 24, 1901 at Chicago. Due to rain, all of the other games scheduled for that date were rained out. The Cleveland team, known as the Blues in 1901 and the Broncos in 1902, became the Naps in 1903 in honor of future Hall of Fame player Napoleon Lajoie. When Lajoie left the team in 1914, the name Cleveland Indians was chosen for the team. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1660_1820896_001
Subjects: Sports; Baseball; Sports teams; Flags; Cleveland Indians (Baseball team)
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga 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
 

Description: Dated ca. 1864, this is a photograph of the Ripley, Ohio, Cricket Club. The athletes' names are handwritten on the reverse; Will B[...], Jeff Johnson, Charlie D. Campball, J.Z.A. Portar, Chambars Leggeff, Frank Osborn, Howard Johnson, Bailey Hudson, Henry Stroutemburg (field captain), John K. Greenbow (field captain), and Hugh Hood. Written later is "Charles Delavan Campbell, third from left standing." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1125_01
Subjects: Cricket; Photography--Ohio; Athletes; Sports teams
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)