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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Leo Calland was an outstanding athlete at Broadway High School in Seattle, where he played football under coach Gus Henderson. Henderson became the head football coach at USC in Los Angeles in 1919, and Calland followed him south. He lettered as a guard for three seasons (1920–1922) and as a senior was named both team captain and most inspirational player on USC's first Rose Bowl team. Calland was named player of the game in the Trojans' 14–3 victory over Penn State on New Year's Day, the first bowl game in the current namesake stadium, and also lettered in basketball at USC. Elmer Clinton "Gloomy Gus" Henderson was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Southern California (1919–1924), the University of Tulsa (1925–1935), and Occidental College (1940–1942), compiling a career college football record of 126–42–7. Leo Calland (left), in a football uniform, with coach Gus Henderson on an athletic field at the university of Southern California. Handwritten on negative: Leo Calland / coach & ... - 22 / at USC Text from negative sleeve: Calland, Leo. Football.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_1443 ark:/21198/zz002dbwwj
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Football players--California--Los Angeles Football coaches--California--Los Angeles Henderson, Gus, 11889-1965 Calland, Leo, 1901-1984
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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