Football

Wide photographic shot of the crowd and field to the right at the 1901 football game between Harvard and Yale.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-23

Photograph taken near the goal line as Harvard scored a touchdown at the Harvard vs Yale football game of November 23, 1901.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-23

Wide photographic shot of the crowd and field at the 1901 football game between Harvard and Yale.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-23

Theodore Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Navy Meyer a letter from Harry E. von Kersburg, who played varsity football at Harvard University and has since coached the football team. Kersburg wants to join the Marine Corps and Roosevelt hopes that Meyer will agree to interview him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-01-09

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1892 to December 1898. Notable events include the death of Elliott Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt is appointed New York City Police Commissioner, his tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the Spanish-American War, and Roosevelt’s gubernatorial campaign.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Postcard featuring a head-and-shoulders portrait of Theodore Roosevelt on the left and a quote on the right. A decorated border surrounds the postcard.

Collection

Marple Collection

Creation Date

1906

In an address at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, Theodore Roosevelt exhorts his audience to embrace a life of struggle, self-sacrifice, and risk. Roosevelt invokes the game of football and says that in life as in football, there is always the risk of getting hurt. A picture of Roosevelt on horseback jumping a fence rail appears in the text as does a listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1911

Brief notice about the founding of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1906 and about its highest award, the Theodore Roosevelt Award or “Teddy,” first presented in 1967.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1984

Newspaper clipping of a cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt reading a book, “The situation in Morocco,” while seated on an overturned coal pail containing a demon labeled “Coal Strike” and holding a banner reading “Peace if we have to fight for it”; behind him a wounded soldier with a broken sword labeled “War” and an injured football player labeled “Brutality in Football” sit on a wall.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-1909

An acknowledgement of Theodore Roosevelt’s application for tickets to the Yale-Harvard football game. If allotted, the tickets will be mailed after November 20.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-08

This newspaper article compares the finale of the recent Yale-Harvard football game, in which Ernest F. Verwiebe was taken off the field in order to allow Victor P. Kennard to kick a field goal and win the game for Harvard, to the current political situation in Washington, D.C. It suggests that President Roosevelt and President-Elect Taft, along with the Republican party as a whole, have a chance to act in the same sort of way for the entire country by legislating in the interest of the entire population, rather than listening to individual wishes of lobbyists or influential industries.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-28

President Roosevelt holds a “presidential nomination” football as Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks and Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna all attempt to tackle him. New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell plays on the same team as Roosevelt and blocks Hanna’s charge.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11

President Roosevelt drags “Dr. Wood,” clutching an “appointment to a Major Generalcy” football, through the goalposts as he wears an “Army” shirt. Two military officers and Uncle Sam watch with some puzzlement. There is a sign in the background that reads, “Army and Navy Football Game Today.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-28

President Roosevelt holds a “Panama” football and pushes past Colombian President José Manuel Marroquín as various political leaders from other countries look on from the sidelines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-16

A Republican elephant and Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna run in front of President Roosevelt, who carries a “1904 campaign” football. The crowds cheer: “What’s the matter with Hanna? He’s all right! Who’s all right? Mark Hanna? Who’s Hanna? He’s a la la, he’s a lu lu, he’s a skiuma!” Caption: The Republican quarterback is going to have the best of interference to clear the path for him in the coming political game.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-15

President Roosevelt dives on the “canal treaty” football as an “anti-imperialist” and a “copperhead” attempt to tackle him or slow him down. Alabama Senator John Tyler Morgan jumps in the background. The crowds, meanwhile, chear in favor of Roosevelt, shouting: “Rah” and “He’s all right.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-12

President Roosevelt pushes off the “big stick” and says, “Don’t flinch; don’t foul” as he leans on Timothy L. Woodruff who leans on George Rumsey Sheldon who leans on Secretary of State Elihu Root who leans on J. S. Sherman who leans on Frank H. Hitchcock who ultimately leans on William H. Taft who is fighting against William Jennings Bryan. On the other side William Randolph Hearst pours a “Standard Oil” can and says, “I’ll make ’em slip.” Meanwhile, Norman Edward Mack leans against Herman Ridder who leans against William James Conners who leans against Charles Francis Murphy who leans against John Worth Kern who leans against Bryan. Uncle Sam referees.

comments and context

Comments and Context

It was impressive cartoon that readers of the Brooklyn Eagle beheld in the Election Day edition of the paper. It was, properly, not partisan or biased toward a candidate or party, published as it was on Election Day when political argumentation traditionally ceased.

William Jennings Bryan pushes William H. Taft away from the “ballot majority” as Samuel Gompers, Thomas E. Watson, and William Randolph Hearst try to get their hands in. President Roosevelt comes running with the “big stick.”

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Comments and Context

The Atlanta Georgian never was that city’s major newspaper but fashioned itself into a Muckraking and reform journal, crusading against the convict-lease system, child labor abuses, and such. Four years after this cartoon ran — a reflection of its extreme political partisanship — William Randolph Hearst bought it and added it his growing chain of papers. The city’s major voice, The Constitution, was allied with publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

President Roosevelt holds a football in the shape of William H. Taft’s head as William Jennings Bryan tries to tackle him.

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Comments and Context

Cartoonist Camillus Kessler, in the routinely anti-Roosevelt Women’s National Daily of St. Louis, drew a cartoon in the final weeks of the 1908 that made salient points about the larger circumstances related to the election.