Players Collection (page 6)

Herbert Sutcliffe, Cricketer
Herbert Sutcliffe (1894-1978) was a professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. He was part of the M.C.C

The Save!
Cartoon by Alfred Leete showing a close encounter with a determined goalkeeper. Date: 1925

The Draughts Players by Joseph Clark - rustic cottage interior with family playing board game

Eton Wall Game, Collegers v Oppidans Date: 1909

Bolton Wanderers footballers in Royal Artillery, WW2
Bolton Wanderers FC professional footballers serving in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, L-R Ithwell, Winter, Roberts, Catterall, Howe, Gosling Date: circa 1940s

Torquay United football team on a rock with trainer Jones
Torquay United FC trainer Jones encourages players to paddle which he says is good for their feet Date: 1946

Footballers Sproston and Doherty of Manchester City
Two Manchester City £10, 000 football players Sproston, left and Doherty, right Date: 1946

Frontispiece, The Boys Book of Soccer for 1946 Date: 1946

Sunderland and Preston footballers playing billiards
Sunderland and Preston North End footballers playing billiards after the FA Cup Final 1937. L-R Beresford, Gurney, Tremelling, Carter, Dougal and Milne Date: 1937

Sheffield United footballers in communal bath
Sheffield United footballers hosed in the communal bath by their trainer Date: 1946

Preston North End v Huddersfield, FA Cup Final, Wembley
Preston North End score winning penalty against Huddersfield Town in FA Cup Final 1938 at Wembley Stadium Date: 1938

Newport County footballers, method of attack
Newport County footballers working out a new method of attack Date: 1946

Jack Jeffries, Millwall football trainer, with players
Millwall trainer Jack Jeffries giving tips to football players R W Bower, Jack Sykes, and George Lea

Clapton Orient footballers Jones, Fletcher and Ellis
Clapton Orient (later known as Leyton Orient) players Jones, Fletcher and Ellis enjoying their pre-war keep-fit diet of oranges Date: circa 1930s

Birmingham City football players on the golf course, Jennings driving off, Hibbs, Dearson and Trigg Date: 1946

Cardiff City Players keep fit using a punch ball, C Smith punching Date: 1946

Going with the Wind
Cartoon, punning on the title of the recently released film Gone with the Wind'. Date: 1940

Golfers Bobby Locke and R. Burton
South African golfer Arthur Bobby Locke (1917-1987) with English golfer Richard Dick Burton (1907-1974). Date: 1939

Advert for Player's cigarettes
A young, fashionable couple smoking on the beach, in this advert for Player's cigarettes. Date: 1939

Golfer Bobby Locke
South African golfer Arthur Bobby Locke (1917-1987) playing a practice round at St Andrews, prior to the Golf Open. Date: 1939

Kay Stammers, tennis player
British tennis player Kay Stammers (1914-2005), shortly before her appearance in the Wimbledon Ladies Singles Final. On this occasion she lost to Alice Marble. Date: 1939

Elwood Cooke and Bobby Riggs at Wimbledon
Both Elwood Cooke (1913-2004) and Bobby Riggs(1918-1995) were newcomers at Wimbledon tennis tournament. Here they are flanking British tennis player Miss Mary Hardwick (1913-2001) and George Godsell

Margot Lumb and Simonne Mathieu
Tennis players Margot Lumb (1912-1998), Simonne Mathieu (1908-1980) and Helen Jacobs (1908-1997) all competed at Wimbledon in 1939. Date: 1939

Player's advert using Ernest Prater painting
This advert for Player's cigarettes uses a painting by Ernest Prater (1864-1950) of a Regency game of cricket. Date: c1939

A golf club and its members
Cartoons of golfers at Broxbourne Golf Club in Hertfordshire. Date: 1939

Polo players
A polo game being played at the Hurlingham Club, Fulham in 1910. The players shown below are the Duke of Westminster (1879-1953) and Lord Shrewsbury (1860-1921). Date: 1910

Caricatures of players from the English cricket team, by Kerwin Maegraith. Including Tate, Bryan, Whysall, Hendren, Hobbs, Woolley, Sutcliffe, Kilner, Tyldesley, Freeman, Sandham, Chapman, Strudwick

Women's football teams in action Date: 1919

Mark Twain, celebrity endorsement advertising tobacco, Player's Navy Cut cigarettes Date: 1909

Protest against Lions playing South Africa
Anti-Apartheid Movement demonstrators picketing in Twickenham to stop the British national rugby team playing against South Africa. Their placards read don't play with apartheid'. Date: c

Mongolian Yatga players
Artists of the Folk Song and Dance ensemble, Ulan Bator, play yatgas, traditional Mongolian stringed instruments similar to a zither. Date: 1970s

Trying to carry on as usual! Tennis players camouflaged from above in case of invasion. Date: 1941

A German custom where walnut shells are floated in a bowl of water, either the walnut comes together or drawn to the side, according to their movements it brings good luck or ill-luck. Date: 1908

Waste paper vehicle catches fire, East Ham, London
A vehicle collecting waste paper in East Ham, London, catches fire, and the fire brigade is called out, watched by crowds. Date: circa 1930s

Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c. 1935
Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c.1935

Cricket Team Photograph - The Cotswold Hunt XI which beat the Beaufort Hunt in a match at Stowell Park, Cheltenham by 77 runs

Cricket Team Photograph - The Gentlemen of Staffordshires XI. Date: 1932

Cricket Team Photograph - The Gentlemen of Herefordshire Date: 1932

Some impressions of Hollywood Beach Parties where film stars and movie magnates entertain, 1927 (2/4) - showing Karl Dane (seen in MGMs Rookies) and some beach beauties and Larry Kent

Advert for Players cigarettes, 1926 Date: 1926

Four dance beauties from Hollywood, 1928. Nancy Carroll one of Paramounts players (top left), Clara Bow from Paramount (top right)

England v Wales rugby match at Cardiff Arms Park. A heavy defeat for England explained in this cartoon: to cut the story short, mud - AND the Welsh XV defeated England. Date: 1922

Lady footballers, the South Team, 1895
The determined-looking ladies of the South football team who played the North team at the in the opening match of the British Ladies Football Club at Nightingale Lane ground at Crouch End in March

A Dream of the Cup Final, after visiting the Futurist exhibition. The FA Cup final between Aston Villa and Huddersfield done in the style of Futurism by cartoonist Rip in The Bystander

Baseball in the United States Date: 1929

Cricket team in blazers by Fougasse
" This is the photograph of our cricket eleven, but I cannot think it really - does us justice." A cricket team suddenly look very different when a colour image reveals the rainbow spectrum

Elinor Glyn and Gloria Swanson
Writer, scriptwriter and journalist Elinor Glyn (right) pictured with actress Gloria Swanson at the West Coast studios of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation at the time Glyn had written a

C M Wells, Middlesex Rugby Player
Cyril Mowbray Wells (1871-1963), Middlesex Rugby Player and first-class cricketer. circa 1900s

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