Remembrance of Teams Past

With the end of the 2012 Olympics now in sight, we celebrate the world of amateur sport with some photographs of local teams from yesteryear.

(Images taken from a variety of sources via Flickr Commons. Click on each picture for more info and higher res versions).

Winning oarsmen at Waterford Boat Club (1897) – National Library of Ireland



Sioux Indian Football Team (ca.1910) – George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress



Shamrock hockey team, Montreal, QC (1899) – McCord Museum



Eymard Seminary Baseball Team, Suffern, N.Y. – Wittemann Collection, Library of Congress



Palace Rink Team, Detroit (ca.1910) – George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.



African American baseball team, Danbury, Connecticut (ca.1880) – Gladstone Collection, Library of Congress.



Shamrock Club lacrosse team (1879) – McCord Museum.



Minneapolis Talmud Torah football team (1920) – Steinfeldt Photography Collection of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.



Irene Kaufmann Settlement, junior basketball team (1929) – American Jewish Historical Society.



Stetson University’s football team (1907) – State LIbrary and Archives of Florida



McGill swimming team, Montreal, QC (1920) – McCord Museum.



Wesleyan Theological Basketball Team, Montreal, QC (1916) – McCord Museum.



Trafalgar Institute basketball team, Montreal, QC (1928) – McCord Museum.



Ladies cricket team, near Weetangera Lane, Canberra: a team composed once a year to play the men, who would use a pick handle (1910) – National Library of Australia.



Dee Why senior Rescue and Resuscitation team, winners of the 1951 Australian Championships (1951) – Australian National Maritime Museum



Portrait of St Mary’s College tennis team, Charters Towers, Queensland (ca.1930) – State LIbrary of Queensland.



Members of the US servicemen’s boxing team (1943) – State Library of Queensland



Local cricket team, Waterford: Second from the left of the seated gentlemen is Sir Richard Musgrave, 5th Baronet of Tourin (1902) – National Library of Ireland.



Hartlepools League Champions for Quoits, a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike (date unknown) – Hartlepool Cultural Services



African American baseball team from from Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia (ca.1899) – Daniel Murray Collection, Library of Congress.



Aboriginal cricketers with Lawrence and William Shepherd, on tour, Swansea, New South Wales (1868) – Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales



Mercury basketball team, Minnesota (1923) – Steinfeldt Photography Collection of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.



Expansion Ladies Football Team, 1918 – Museum of Hartlepool.



Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant Basketball Team, The Jets (date unknown) – San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive



United States Military Academy (West Point) football team (1913) – George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.



Hartlepool Y.M.C.A. Billiards Team (1920) – Hartlepool Cultural Services.











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