Olympic competitor and sportswriter Dick Hyland, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Olympic competitor and sportswriter Dick Hyland, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

March 8, 1935

Date

1935-03-08

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph published with article, "Miss St. Johns Battles Hyland Over Their Son," Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 1935: 3. Photograph also used with article, "Holiday for Tired Columnist as Dick Hyland Feels Urge to Write About the Past," Los Angeles Times, 4 Jul. 1935: 15.
Photograph of Richard Frank Hyland, popularly known as Dick Hyland, American rugby union player and sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times. Hyland competed in Paris in 1924 as a member of the American Olympic Rugby Team, and played as an All-Coast halfback for Stanford, where he was known as "Tricky Dick." He wrote guest columns from coast-to-coast and joined the L.A Times sports staff in 1939, and entered the Standford Hall of Fame for athletes in 1954. He was engaged in a custody battle for his son with his wife in 1935, when this photograph was first used. It has since been used multiple times.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Richard Highland
Text on negative sleeve: Hyland, Dick, Times, 1935; 4x5 contact to be made
Text from newspaper caption: Writer and ex-Husband inCourt Fight. Richard (Dick) Hyland, former football star, engaged in legal battle wtih wife for posession of child.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hyland, Dick

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Football players--California--Los Angeles
Sportswriters--California--Los Angeles