Football: the Great Years (1966)
1966 · Feature film · 50 min
- Western
- Documentary
Synopsis
This black and white newsreel film from the 1960s titled “Football: The Great Years'' looks at the history of the American sport. An Art Lieberman production, this film is narrated by former American football player Frank Leahy who recounts the sport’s history and offers personal anecdotes. The film is composed of film clips that were sourced from Fox Movietone News, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Robert Sands, University of Notre Dame, UCLA, USC, and Western Athletic Conference.Football game with opening remarks (0:07). Frank Leahy talks to camera (1:55). Origins of football - did not originate at University of Notre Dame (2:04). Harpastum and Ancient Greece (2:29). Julius Caesar (2:44). Football 12th Century England (3:34). Calcio Storico (4:18). King Henry II football ban (4:40). Return of football 17th century (4:59). 1823 Rugby School and Willy Ellis (5:28). Soccer in United Kingdom (6:40). Soccer in Italy (7:00). New Zealand Maori soccer players’ rituals (7:29). Soccer in Russia (8:04). Football in Australia (8:27). American football (9:08). Origin of American intercollegiate football 1869: Princeton vs. Rutgers (10:23). The Boston Game (10:48). 1870s Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard join (10:56). 1874 McGill - Harvard Series (11:15). 1876 first intercollegiate football association (11:59). Walter Camp (12:16). 1905 casualties in American football - loss of public support (13:32). Teddy Roosevelt saves American football - 1906 Intercollegiate Rules Committee…
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Details
- Running time
- 50 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Century England
- The Great Years
- Art Lieberman
- Frank Leahy
- Fox Movietone News
- Helms Athletic Foundation
- Robert Sands
- Notre Dame
- Western Athletic Conference
- Ancient Greece
