Dummy tackle - Harvard – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Dummy tackle - Harvard comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Dummy tackle - Harvard
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Harvard's football practice is the subject here, captured during a dummy tackle, a drill in which a player drove his shoulder into a padded figure to learn how to bring down a runner. Bain News Service, the New York photo agency whose glass negatives make up the George Grantham Bain Collection, sold news and sports pictures to newspapers in the early 1900s, and this plate fits that period, though the record gives no exact date. Coaches of the era relied heavily on drills like this because tackling technique was still being refined in a rough game. Harvard, just across the Charles River from Boston, was one of the sport's leading programs at the time.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,772 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15387 |
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