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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. The high hurdles race at the S.C. and Stanford dual track meet is seen from a bird's-eye view at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The track, off-center to the left, sits below camera-level and stretches straight back. The hurdlers are captured mid-leap as they cross the first set of hurdles near the bottom edge. From left to right, the runners are: Clarence Berry (S.C.), Bob Lyon (S.C.), Sam Klopstock (Stanford) and Gene Culp (S.C.). Klopstock appears in the lead, but knocks over his hurdle. Along the inside edge of the track at left, meet officials line the straight-away. Other meet officials and participants mill about the field. In the distance at right, spectators fill a few sections of the stands near the race's finish line. Empty stadium seats stretch across the background at center and left. This photograph appears with the articles, “How Trojans Tripped Stanford,” Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D3, and “Boys Outdo Themselves to Run Away with Meet Southern California Scores Easy 82 2-3 to 48 1-3 Win Over Rivals as Records Fall,” Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D1 Text from newspaper caption: The Start of a Major Upset Picture shows Sam Klopstock, figure in white, hitting the first hurdle in yesterday's high hurdle race at the Coliseum. Bob Lyon, No. 22, went on to win for the Trojans, Klopstock taking second. Clarence Berry, third, is No. 11, while Gene Culp, No. 5, finished under orders a couple of minutes after the race had ended. He hit a hurdle and ran thereafter with only one shoe one [sic]. The time of 14.7s. tied the meet record and the result, due to Klopstock's miscalculation, was a surprise. [Times photo by Fred Coffey] [Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D1] Handwritten on negative: X Text from negative sleeve: TRACK, S.C. VS. STANFORD, 1934
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image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3881 ark:/21198/zz002cpk6x
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles Hurdle racing--California--Los Angeles Track athletics--California--Los Angeles Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Culp, Gene Berry, Clarence Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) Stanford University Klopstock, Samuel Curtis, 1914-1985 University of Southern California--Track and field Lyon, Bob
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