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Title: Hurdler Otto Anderson stretches with a leg swing, Los Angeles, 1922-1926
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1922-1926]
1922/1926
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Otto Anderson began his athletics career as a hurdler while at Pomona High School. In 1920, he qualified for the Antwerp Olympics. He attended U.S.C beginning in 1922, playing football and adding more track and field events to his repertoire. He qualified for and traveled to Paris for the 1924 Olympics, but injured himself there practicing for the pole vault event. Upon his return he acted as track team captain at U.S.C. Reported on in "An Intimate Impression of Otto Anderson," Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 1922: III1; "Otto Anderson Hurt; Daggs Is a Sure Winner," Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 1923: III1; and "Otto Anderson Is Back from Paris," Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 1924: B3.
Handwritten on negative: Otto Anderson
Text from negative sleeve: Anderson, Otto Sports.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3690_G102
ark:/21198/z1zm18gr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Track athletics--California--Los Angeles
Anderson, Otto, 1901-1963
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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