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Vince Lombardi at the Pro Football Writers Dinner

Date: 02 10 1969
Description: Green Bay Packers football coach, Vince Lombardi, being interviewed at the professional football writers dinner.
Photograph

Pick-Up Football Game

Date: 04 08 1967
Description: Young boys play football.
Photograph

Green Bay Packers Football Stadium

Date: 1957
Description: Aerial view of Lambeau Field (known as City Stadium from 1957 to 1965), home the Green Bay Packers football team, with a full parking lot. The capacity of ...
Photograph

Ronald Reagan as Gipp in the film "Knute Rockne: All-American"

Date: 1940
Description: Ronald Reagan as the character Gipp in the Warner Brothers' film "Knute Rockne: All-American."
Book or Pamphlet

The Fabulous Green Bay Packers

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of a Milwaukee Journal publication commemorating the Green Bay Packers 1967 championship season. The cover features a drawing by Gregg Klees o...
Photograph

Fans at a Badgers Game

Date: 1965
Description: Section of an active crowd of University of Wisconsin students yelling and cheering at a campus rally to work up spirit before a football game. Annotated: ...
Photograph

Pat and Johnny O'Brien

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Description: Pat O'Brien stands next to his son Johnny who plays football for Notre Dame University. Pat is wearing a suit and necktie while Johnny is wearing his footb...
Poster

"Knute Rockne All American" Poster

Date: 1940
Description: Poster for the 1940 film "Knute Rockne All American." Pat O'Brien's face is at the top part of the poster. Ronald Reagan is kicking his leg up in the air o...
Magazine or Periodical

1960 Green Bay Packers Yearbook

Date: 1960
Description: Cover of the Green Bay Packers 1960 Yearbook featuring a photograph from the Packer-Lion game of October 4, 1959 showing Halfback, Paul Hornung on an end s...
Photograph

Jackie Robinson, Rachel Robinson, and Ruby Dee

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Description: Jackie Robinson, Rachel Robinson and Ruby Dee during the production of the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." Robinson and Dee are in costume, with the...
Photograph

Touch Football

Date: 09 1950
Description: Students playing a game of touch football on a dirt field at Norbert College. One team is wearing shirts with "Inmates" printed on the front, other shirts ...
Photograph

Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit

Date: 1962
Description: Green Bay Packer's Quarterback Bart Starr and Center Jim Ringo in formation during a football game against the Detroit Tigers. Two referees observing, and ...
Photograph

Lawrence University

Date: 10 1969
Description: A football player is leaping to avoid a tackle at Lawrence University. Two people are watching from the hillside in the background.
Photograph

Rugby Scrum

Date: 1976
Description: Muddy rugby players in a scrum, a method of restarting play where players line up with their heads down to try to gain possession of the ball. The ball is ...
Photograph

Out for the Season

Date: 1978
Description: A young man is sitting on a football in the grass with his head down resting on his arms which are crossed over his knees.
Photograph

Demon Frolicking with Football

Date: 1979
Description: A boy dressed as a demon with a cape and holding a football is running in front of a brick wall.
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Varsity

Date: 1975
Description: A crowd of students are waving their hands while singing "Varsity" at a football game.

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