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Title: Frank Gifford off to the races
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.
Born in Santa Monica, Gifford played tailback for Jess Hill at USC before embarking on his Hall of Fame NFL career. In the fictional memoir "A Fan's Notes," writer Frederic Exley described Gifford's collegiate career this way: "Frank Gifford was an All-America at USC, and I know of no way of describing this phenomenon short of equating it with being the Pope in the Vatican."
Frank Gifford (center), with the New York Giants in an exhibition game against the Rams. Dated August 24, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048946
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 12270
CARL0000052814
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17245
Subject: Gifford, Frank
Los Angeles Rams (Football team : 1946-1994)
New York Giants (Football team)
Football--California--Los Angeles
Football players--United States
Night photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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