Vintage Sports Moments

Black and white photographs depicting vintage sports activities, including a man swinging a sledgehammer and a football player in action.

Vintage Photograph. Baseball umpire calling out player

Sports Day Rijkswerf - Army Workshops - Marine Aviation Technology, 1978.

The boots with which Bob kicked his way to success in Australia last year. They were made by a one-armed Auckland shoemaker, Peter Ness, who for many years has made boots for star foot-ballers and shoes for champion athletes. Using these boots Bob kicked a total of 72 points in six games in Australia. This included his record-breaking solo effort of 15 points in the final test against Australia. the previous Saturday against these boots converted all six tries and kicked two penalties in eight attempts. July 13, 1951.

Anefo photo collection. Skater Ard Schenk at Ringrijder in Kolkum, Friesland; Ard Schenk in Fries costume in Frisian Sjes. August 15, 1970. Friesland

Anefo photo collection. Netherlands against England 0-1. Referee Pavel Kazakov (USSR) between two border judges. November 5, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. End of the auto race.

Anefo photo collection. Dutch national team trains for match against DDR in Zeist. October 6, 1971. D.D.R., Germany, Zeist

Mr. Gordon Young, NSW Director of National Fitness demonstrates softball. (L-R): Glen McKeller (11), Trevor Nikitin (11), both of Willoughby Pub. School at the Willoughby Park Child Care Scheme. July 30, 1951.

Skater

Batting a thousand (EV007405_H)

Anefo photo collection. The Dutch national team to Israel left, Eddy P. Graafland films. January 25, 1965. Israel

Anefo photo collection. Dutch Athletics Beverwijk, Eef Kamerbeek (action spears). August 23, 1964. Beverwijk

Connie Mack and John McGraw , Baseball managers, McGraw, John Joseph, 1873-1934, Mack, Connie, 1862-1956. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

Anefo photo collection. FC Amsterdam against Roda: JC 2-0. Husers injured. March 10, 1974. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. Older man inspects tennis racket while sitting cross legged on bench in locker room.

Santa Monica, California: November 27, 1927 Ralph Douglas of San Diego will jump from an altitude of 15,000 feet and free fall for 10,000 feet before opening his parachute, thus breaking the old free fall record of 4200 feet. He will use a stop-watch to time the dive, figuring it will take from 25 to 28 seconds. Here he is ready to leap overboard.

Fashionable polo player (OV2019_457)

01/01/1963. Protagonists - Coaches - Villalonga Watch a Real Madrid training session.

Mills Starts Training For Woodcock Fight. -- Mills puts in a spot of hard work digging in a vegetable patch beside a tulip bed in the garden of his training quarters today.Freddie Mills, the world's crusier-weight champion, began training today at a hostelry at the foot of Bexhill, a Surrey beauty spot, in preparation for his British heavyweight championship fight with Bruce Woodcock. May 12, 1949. (Photo by Fox).

Anefo photo collection. OVVD against shots are baseball. Keulenmans hits outside West. Figurine 2 scheme (OVVO) 7 Hanny Urbanus /. August 13, 1961

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Swimming Germany against the Netherlands in Dortmund. On the left a sick Johan Bontekoe and on the bank ineke tigelaar. September 29, 1963. Dortmund, Germany

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Training Zandvoort Grand Prix, Graham Hill (BRM). July 16, 1965. Noord-Holland, Zandvoort

Vintage Photograph. Young boy enjoying a sunny day at the park with his baseball gear.

Hollywood, California: March 16, 1926 Actress Anna Q. Nilsson and Australlian athlete Snowy Baker test each others mettle with bush clubs.

Vintage photograph. Boy wearing vintage football helmet holding football with funny expression

Batting practice (EV007848_H)

St. Andrews's day at Eton, November 30th. 1938. St. Andrew's Day at Eton College, is celebrated by the playing of the annual "Wall Game" - over 200 years old - between the Collegers and the Oppidans.The game, a peculiar game of football played only at Eton and during the winter months, is played between two sides of eleven players each. The goals are strictly unorthodox, one, a gate the other an old tree at the opposite end of the wall. Those taking part are passed from head to foot to escape being bruised against the wall. Goals are extremely hard to score and the game often ends in and draw. November 30, 1938. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Children boxing on grass

Anefo photo collection. Arrival Norwegian and Dutch skaters from Davos O.A. van de Voort, Huiskers, Anderson, Broekman. February 8, 1954. Davos

Low angle view of a football referee signaling a touchdown

Portrait of a baseball umpire (OV2023_147)

Talking winter sports are flight-Lieutenant Peter Gill and Swiss ex-world skiing champion Rudolf Rominger. July 24, 1949.

Anne Shirley, RKO Radio star shown in her new skiing outfit of heavy black mackinaw, Durable for all winter sports

In Between triumphs on the track Olympic champion Duncan Gray has plenty of time for little nephew plenty of time for little nephew Brien. Here he is, with Brien on the box seat. August 16, 1932.

Anefo photo collection. Cyclist Jules Maenen Debutant Tour de France 1954. 24 June 1954

Finns playing Kykka, the national game, 1936. Artist: ENA

Vintage Photograph. Older man inspects tennis racket while sitting on bench.

Vintage photograph. Football referee calling touchdown

Anefo photo collection. Training PSV Europe Cup match Real Madrid, footballer Romario Training snow. 27 February 1989. Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant

Vintage Photograph. Boy wearing a football helmet and holding a football.

Anefo photo collection. Rolf Smitshuysen Hoela hoops in all positions. October 29, 1958

Anefo photo collection. Swimming championships in the Netherlands in Heerlen. Johan Bontekoe. August 5, 1961. Heerlen, Limburg

Anefo photo collection. Hiking march Paris Amsterdam, Mr. Doornekamp from Amersfoort runs the trip on clogs. October 15, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Fausto Coppi

Steve Donoghue's Farewell To The Turf -- Steve Donoghue unsaddling his last mount "Highlander" after finishing third in the Final Plate. Lord Derby is on left.Steve Donoghue, the king of jockeys who has spent 34 years in the saddle rode his last race at the Manchester meeting yesterday. He rode "Highlander" in the final Plate and finished third. Pegonas won the race and Donoghue was at first to ride this horse but gave it up to ride the favourite, "Highlander", and make sure of victory for his last race. November 28, 1937. (Photo by Topical Press)

Low angle view of a youth league pitcher standing with a baseball catcher and planning

Boy kicking a football

Anefo photo collection. Visit Koning Olav to Philips in Eindhoven, image man with bicycle. September 10, 1964. Eindhoven

1940s THREE PRETEEN BOYS FOOTBALL PLAYERS WEARING KNICKERBOCKERS FILLING BALL WITH AIR SWIPED FROM AUTOMOBILE WHITEWALL TIRE

Anefo photo collection. Ajax against ADO 1-0 Michels. May 22, 1969

Vintage photograph. Pitcher about to throw baseball

Dressin, as the track guard dressin

Anefo photo collection. Interim proceedings of the Association of Exercise Meesters against KNVB on Vitesse Trainer Bulatovic, Mr. Janssen van Raaij. September 13, 1974

Golfer and canine caddie (OV2019_639)

Two boys in boxing posing. Två pojkar i boxningsposering.

Anefo photo collection. Preparations for World Cycling Championships, around the bike, du Bois, van der Horst, Brackets, Wagtmans, Dolman. August 17, 1966

Anefo photo collection. Mowing the grass in the limits. August 2, 1960

His final morning of road work. Ossie Steward is ready for his fight with Atilio Sabatino at the Stadium to-night. March 13, 1939.

Anefo photo collection. European skating championships in Deventer, Ard Schenk (head). January 23, 1966. Deventer

United States: c. 1967. A lifeguard at a pool gives the thumbs up sign.

Vintage photograph. Portrait of smiling boy wearing football helmet holding ball

Anefo photo collection. Fishing competition Parliament against press at Barneveld. September 16, 1971. Barneveld

Flying males in art, Buildings in Los Angeles, 1904, California, Los Angeles, I will call on you, Stadt mit Fliegendem Mann', United States of America

Vintage Photograph. Bill Hucabee. Model Released. Man in hockey goalie uniform holding hockey stick ready for play. Frame 1

Anefo photo collection. Swimming the Netherlands-France.Tilburg Geertje Wielsma Alex Jony. July 26, 1953

Anefo photo collection. Training Feijenoord I.V.m. UEFA match against Eintracht Frankfurt. Feijenoord Trainer Vaclav Jezek. December 10, 1979. Rotterdam, South Holland

Mel Patton - Athletics. September 02, 1947. (Photo by Wide World Photo)

1960s DEJECTED BOY WEARING HELMET AND PADS SITTING HOLDING FOOTBALL IN FRONT OF HOME TEAM DEFEATED SCOREBOARD

Anefo photo collection. Preparations European skating championships Heerenveen. January 21, 1971. Friesland, Heerenveen

Two boys who wrestle. Halland. Nordic

Anefo photo collection. Football heads, Kaneman. September 16, 1955

HS Vanderbilt - Newport, R.I., Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell

Anefo photo collection. Reims against Feijenoord. Europe Cup. Kopa (Reims). February 6, 1963

The anniversary of the last victory over the Ottoman army in 1715 is celebrated yearly in the beginning of August by Sinjska alka, an equestrian competition in which ceremonially dressed horsemen try to hit a small ring (alka) with their lance while galloping. Date: circa 1930s

His Share Of The Kill - One Leg Of The Zebra -- An African bushman of Tanganyika returning home with his share of the kill - one leg of a zebra. He carries his long bow and poisoned arrows in his other hand. The bushmen of Tanganyika, East Africa, are very skilfull. Archers - they need to be because it is their main means of livelihood. They used long poisoned arrows and a zebra hit in a vital spot runs only about 300 yards before it drops dead. The hunter must then dress his victim carefully, f

Vintage photograph. Middle aged man in white dress shirt and trousers waiting to swing tennis racket in front of cloud background

Anefo photo collection. First day National swimming championships in swimming pool Den Hommel in Utrecht, Linda Faber. July 23, 1972. Utrecht

Greenbrier Tennis Festival, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell

Young woman and young man playing badminton

Anefo photo collection. Cyclists Fritz Siefert (left) and Rudi Theissen (right). May 22, 1952

Portrait of American football referee holding ball, pointing

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as teaching material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology 1948-1958. Optische Anstal C. P. Goerz, Berlin.

Historic photograph, female fencer, around 1929

Fly Fisherman Al Caucci

Couple ice skating, historic photograph, around 1911

Anefo photo collection. Fietsieval in Stadium (training). Johnny Kraaijkamp comes out at Rika Janssen after Rondje. August 17, 1967

Anefo photo collection. Jack de Nijs on roller skate, in training before 10 March (at Rozengracht at Westerkerk). February 24, 1966

Greenbrier Tennis Festival, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell

STEVE MCQUEEN in THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963), directed by JOHN STURGES.

Dutch Star Gets Hollywood Treatment -- Fanny Blanders-Koen, the Dutch Olympic games star, gets glamorized in one of Hollywood's most fashionable beauty salons. On the left Fanny has her hair put in pin-curls, and on the right, the finished product. The great runner and jumper, who won four Olympic gold medals, is in Los Angeles to compete in the Coliseum Relays tonight. May 20, 1949. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Portrait of jockey

Poll photo collection. Scotland - The Highlands. Bagpipe player blows on his instrument during the Highland Games, a nineteenth-century continuation of traditional clan games from the highlands of Scotland. 1934. Great Britain, Scotland

The Moon at Highfield Riding School's gymkhana at Punchbowl. September 6, 1939.

Playing Retro Golf with Hickory Clubs

Bill Fisher Worlds Champ Over 70yrs Sculler...This shot showing him after his 81st birthday row from Drummoyne to Parramatta return to Drummoyne a distance of about 15 miles. He broke his own record of two hours ten minutes by five mnts taken at his Drummoyne Boat shed... January 11, 1955. (Photo by Gordon Herbert Short/Fairfax Media).

Boxing - Henry Armstrong, The world's light and welter weight champion to fight Ernie.Roderick at the harrying stadium on Thursday May 25th, In Training at Clacton -on-sea.La and Mrs. Armstrong, wife and daughter of Henry Armstrong having a cycle ride while the husband *****.Armstrong's wief and daughter go for an outing while Henry trains for a fight at Harringay against Ernie Roderick. May 20, 1939. (Photo by Sports and General Press Agency Ltd.)

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Sports at the police school in Suriname. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

Greenbrier Tennis Festival, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell

Anefo photo collection. TV recording Avro for "strongest man in Europe" in the RAI (during Firato); Dutchman Gerard du Prie during "Guldens Lift". August 30, 1982. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Wants two London Bouts - Lightheavy Champion Archie Moore ***** to the tick of the round timer after a brisk workout gym here yesterday, for his non-title fight next Monday with Howard King. Moore told British promoter Jack Solomons, in a trans-Atlantic phone conger station yesterday, this he's willing to fight two bouts for him in London. Me wants to fights heavyweight on March 13 and then remain in England to take on Yoland Pompey, the originally scheduled Lighteavy title for, in June. February 28, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto)

Close-up of a coach holding a whistle and shouting

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