Odds and Ends Again

It's time for another round of stray odds and ends. 

This happy group is a 1930s German water polo team.

 

Muybridge Panels Day

The last time I did a Muybridge series, it was single frames, so this time I will post 

photo sequences, some of which have matching images from different angles.  

We start with a pole vaulter from Animal Locomotion Plate 164.

 

Golf

These two are playing golf without the benefit of grass.

 

Albert Brunin

French gymnastics champion Albert Brunin appeared in this photo

from the the French Sports Federation Review.

 

Dodgers

These guys are some of the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

Parallel Bars

Here we see a new and interesting version of a parallel bars gymnastic routine.

 

Yale Varsity, 1911

We get bulges galore from the Yale Varsity Rowing Team of 1911.

 

Mass Nudity

We rarely see this many naked men at once these days, so it fits my oddity category.

I'm guessing that one or more sports teams are involved here, but that's just a hunch.

 

Inevitable

You knew we weren't going to get through this 

without volleyball, and here it is from 1973.

 

Men in Gym Shorts by Request

Greg R. of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma sent in a request for more men in gym shorts, and I am happy to oblige.  This time, I am going with mostly championship level throwing event men from track and field.  We start with W.F. Roos, a Yale shot put and hammer throw star from about 1910.

 

Klaus Wolfermann

German Klaus Wolfermann won the Gold for the javelin throw at the 1972 Olympics.

If you look closely, you'll see a peekaboo bulge coming out of his right shorts leg.

And as is typical for this type of athlete, his thighs are amazing.

 

Kenneth Carpenter

Kenneth Carpenter was an American discus thrower who appeared 

in Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 movie, Olympia.  An NCAA and AAU 

champion in the 1930s, he went on to a successful coaching career.

 

Football Team

These eleven men appear to be an American football team, 

but several searches failed to locate them.

 

Geoff Capes

Englishman Geoff Capes was a celebrated shot putter, a sport which he won at the Commonwealth Games and placed in at the European championship level.  He went on the a second career in the Highland Games throwing events and won World's Strongest Man twice.

 

Tom Petranoff

American Javelin thrower Tom Petranoff set a world record in 1983

and won Silver at the World Championship that same year.

 

Patrick Ryan

As one of the Irish-American weight throwers known as the Irish Whales, Patrick Ryan was

 phenomenal at the hammer throw.  He set a world record in 1913 that stood for 25 years,

and won the Gold as the 1920 Olympics shown above.

 

Hal Connolly

American hammer throw champion Hal Connolly gets a congratulatory handshake as he leaves the field.  (A friendly pat on the bottom might have been more appealing, but whatever.)

Mr. Connolly won the Gold in his chosen sport at the 1956 Olympics.

By the way, the thighs on both these men ae impressive.

 

Louis Hostin

This is French weightlifter Louis Hostin, and he participated in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Olympics.

He won the Silver in '28 and Gold in both '32 and '36 for his weight class.

 

Danes

These are Danish athletes doing a physical culture demonstration

on a good will visit to Washington, D.C. in 1923.

 

Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo

Here we see Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo winding up to throw the discus.  Although he was a highly regarded Spanish athlete, he never placed at the Olympic or World Championship levels.  He did go on to a very successful career as a TV journalist specializing in "brushfire" wars, having been 

sentenced in absentia to death for filming the illegal execution of 300 Congolese rebels.