Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article, “Texas’ Gift to Southern California: PHIL COPE CRACKS MARK Trojan Sophomore Breaks Twenty-Year-Old High Hurdle in Interclass Track Meet,” Los Angeles Times, 17 March, 1935: 27 Tex Milner, USC student athlete, holds a javelin on a sports field at US. The United University Church, a Romanesque Revival church by architect C. Raimond Johnson, is visible in the background. Handwritten on negative: Tex Milner 1935 Text from newspaper caption: R. T. (Tex.) Milner, Trojan freshman, who set a new Bovard Field javelin record in the annual S.C. interclass track and field meet. Milner tossed the spear 207ft. 5*in. The old record was 204ft. 11in. set in 1931 by Jess Mortensen. Milner came to Southern California from a Texas High School. Text from negative sleeve: Milner, Tex. Track, 1935.
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_6627 ark:/21198/zz002cww4x
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No linguistic content
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Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles Javelin throwing--California--Los Angeles Track athletics--California--Los Angeles Romanesque revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles United University Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) Milner, R. Tex, 1915-1988
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