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Russ Saunders and Ernie Nevers playing football at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, circa 1932

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Title: Russ Saunders and Ernie Nevers playing football at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, circa 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1932]
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Nevers, All-American at StanfordRuss Saunders, USC
Ernie Nevers, former All-American player from Stanford, formed the Ernie Nevers National Collegiate professional football team that played Nate Barranger's Trojan All-Stars at Wrigley field on January 17, 1932. Russ Saunders, a former Trojan player, was in the game and featured in a photograph in the article "Nevers Eleven Captures Game," Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 1932: 5.
Photograph of Russ Saunders (left) running with a football as Ernie Nevers approaches from behind, at Wrigley Field.
After his football career, Russ Saunders went on to a career in Hollywood as a film director and actor.
Text from negative sleeve: Saunders, Rush [sic]. Football.
Handwritten on negative: Rush [sic] Saunders, Ernie Nevers
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11536
ark:/21198/zz002h9kxh
Subject: Football players--California--Los Angeles
Saunders, Russell, 1906-1987
Nevers, Ernie, 1903-
Wrigley Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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