Mealtime with J.R. Smith, Maurice Orr, Harry Shuford, Bill Tipton, Cecil Colville and Bob Turner, Pasadena, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Mealtime with J.R. Smith, Maurice Orr, Harry Shuford, Bill Tipton, Cecil Colville and Bob Turner, Pasadena, 1935

Date Created

December 28, 1935

Date

1935-12-28

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The six men occupy one side of a table covered in a white tablecloth. They all have napkins and cutlery in front of their places and some of them raise glasses to drink.
Photograph appears with the headline, "How Stanford and S.M.U. Players Spend Their Spare Time Before the Battle," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: A15.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4336 - Billy Stamps. Johnny Weissmuller Harry Shuford Arthur Johnson John Sprage John Stuffleborne Loamon Phillips Shelly Burt J R Smith Maurice Orr Bill Tipton Cecil Colville Bob Turner S.M.U Team at Hotel Scenes 12-28-35. [stamped:] Jan 3-1936
Handwritten on negative: L2R J.R. Smith x Maurice Orr x Harry Shuford x Bill Tipton x Cecil Colville x Bob Turner of S.M.U. 12-28-35
Text from newspaper caption: WHEN THEY'RE NOT ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD HERE'S WHERE MUSTANGS SHINE BEST Football players like to eat when they're not playing football. And here are the Southern Methodist players in "action." Left to right: J. R. Smith, Maurice Orr, Harry Shuford, Bill Tipton, Cecil Colville and Bob Turner. Smith, Shuford and Turner are backs. Orr is a tackle while Tipton and Colville hold down end positions.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Tipton, Bill
Orr, Maurice, 1913-2007
Southern Methodist University
Smith, J. R.
Turner, Bob
Shuford, Harry, 1915-2007

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Football players--California--Pasadena
Eating & drinking--California--Pasadena