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[Football game] – Historic Reproduction

[Football game], c1902. — historic photograph
[Football game], c1902.. Historic photograph from the Sports collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures [Football game] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The record gives little detail about this scene beyond its title, but it places the picture in about 1902, when American football was a rougher game than today. Players wore leather helmets and little padding, and the flying wedge and mass formations produced frequent serious injuries. Those dangers led President Theodore Roosevelt to press for rule changes in 1905, and the forward pass was legalized in 1906. The photograph was registered for copyright, which is why it survives in the Library of Congress collection, and it offers a glimpse of the sport in its early, more violent form.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH13064 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsFootball--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-198908

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