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4,204 1940s Pro Football Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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american football player poised to throw ball. - 1940s pro football stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

American football player poised to throw ball.

columbia u football game in progress, c.1940s - 1940s pro football stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Columbia U football game in progress, c.1940s

Superga air disaster, On May 4 a Fiat G-212 plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. Football squad popularly known as "Il Grande Torino" crashed...

Superga air disaster, On May 4, 1949, a Fiat G-212 plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad popularly known as "Il Grande Torino" crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club official

football time - 1940s pro football stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

The winning team 'LMAC' of the 440 yards Relay Championship on the field during the Railway Athletic Association sports meeting at Wembley Park,...

The Winning Team

Iris Clark, Barbara Sisman and Rita Barnes, footballers for the South London Ladies Football Club practice heading the ball during a training session...

1949 South London Ladies Football Club

Quarterback Jackie Robinson, the college's first student-athlete to earn varsity letters in four different sports, leaps in the air to throw a pass....

UCLA Quarterback Jackie Robinson

Game of American football at White City stadium, London, between 'Crimson Tide' and 'Fighting Irish' staged by the US Army for a mixed audience of...

American Football

Halfback Charley Trippi of the Chicago Cardinals along with Vic Schwall, Bill Campbell, and Vince Banonis on the bench during a 45 to 21 loss to the...

Charley Trippi - File Photos

Navy-Notre Dame Program Cover by G. Crockett

Navy-Notre Dame Program Cover by G. Crockett

Group of Manchester United fans walk past the gates of Buckingham Palace on the morning of the FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Blackpool...

Footballers from London clubs Arsenal and Fulham taking part in making an instructional film for the Football Association at Hendon, 15th September...

Football On Film

Packing the crowd Maine road for "Derby" match between Manchester City and Manchester United. September 1947 P005462

Packing the crowd Maine road for "Derby" match between Manchester City and Manchester United. September 1947 P005462

Eileen McCarthy from Deptford practising a throw-in during training at the South London Ladies Football Club.

Training At Deptford

This young Spurs fan took his lunch with him to Highbury where he was among the many thousands of spectators to watch Arsenal FC play Tottenham...

Come On Ye Spurs

These hurdles are easy to take in practice sessions, but Steve Juzwik, Right Halfback; Robert Hargraves, Quarterback; Angelo Bertelli, Left Halfback,...

They'll Have to Take These Hurdles Again

Packers Hall of Fame running backTony Canadeo in a 20-7 win over the Washington Redskins at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. On December 1, 1946.

Washington Redskins vs Green Bay Packers - December 1, 1946

running back - 1940s pro football stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

football player uniform - 1940's - 1940s pro football stock illustrations

Football Player Uniform - 1940's

three boys playing american football. - 1940s pro football stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Three boys playing American football.

Manchester United outside right Delaney crosses the ball towards Arsenal left back Leslie Smith during a match at Highbury.

Manchester Cross

Dressed as Victorian gentlemen complete with top hats and beards, fifteen students from Caius College, Cambridge and fifteen from Oxford play...

Gentlemanly Game

Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame halfback Steve Van Buren will be remembered for scoring the only touchdown in league championship game in a blizzard...

Steve Van Buren - Philadelphia Eagles - File Photos

Arsenal players Delaney, right, and Norman Smith turning the tables on press photographers during a 'picture day' at Highbury Stadium in London, 7th...

Olympic Games, London, England, Football, Great Britain v Yugoslavia, The Yugoslav goal under attack from Great Britain forwards

1948 Olympic Games. London, England. Football. Great Britain v Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav goal under attack from Great Britain forwards.

Ireland's center forward, D. Walsh, plunges forward as T. Lindberg, Swedish goalkeeper, saves the ball in the second match between the two teams in...

Soccer Goalkeeper Saves Ball from Scoring

Chicago: Herman Rohrig, Packer half, is tackled after grabbing a Card fumble and running ten yards in second quarter of Cardinals-Green Bay Packers...

Herman Rohrig Playing Hard During Football Game

Slight bomb damage to the rear stand of Goodison Park, home stadium of Everton Football Club, after an air raid in WWII. 20th September 1940

Slight Damage To The Rear Stand Of Goodison Park During Second World War, 1940

Some of the victims of the air crash in which Italian football team Torino FC were killed, along with their British trainer Leslie Lievesley, 5th May...

Superga Air Disaster

Schoolboys at Beverly School in New Malden, Surrey, at a soccer practice session overseen by visiting Chelsea FC goalkeeper Harry Medhurst, 5th...

Heading Practice

German Soldiers Playing Football.

German Soldiers Playing Football

Los Angeles Rams running back Les Horvath on a carry in a 41-13 win over the Washington Redskins on December 5, 1948 at Griffith Stadium in...

Los Angeles Rams vs Washington Redskins - December 5, 1948

Goalkeeper, Miss R. Clayton, goes in to take the ball from an attacking forward in a football match between female munitions workers during World War...

Women's Football Match

Superga air disaster, a Fiat G-212 plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. Football squad popularly known as "Il Grande Torino" crashed into the...

Superga air disaster, a Fiat G-212 plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad popularly known as "Il Grande Torino" crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists a

Chicago, IL - Sid Luckman, of the Chicago Bears, whose pass-tossing and work at quarter back made the star of the game, romps through a big hole for...

Chicago Bears Football Action

McAfee of the Chicago Bears is shown plunging over the line for the third touchdown scored by the Bears in the game against the Detroit Lions at...

Bears and Lions Football Players in Action

The Chicago Bears, Champions of the National Professional Football League, exult for photographers in their dressing room at Wrigley Field, after...

Bears Teammates Posing for Camera

Leslie Compton beats Liverpool player Albert Stubbins to the ball during an Arsenal versus Liverpool match at Highbury, London.

Arsenal V Liverpool

An American football team in a huddle at the American University Army College at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4095 -...

American Huddle

British prisoners of war who have formed a football team, sit with a trophy and a football inscribed with the name of the English football team...

Prison Footballers

Leicester City's forwards compete for an aerial ball with Grimsby Town's defence during a match at Leicester's Filbert Street ground. Original...

Section of the crowd at Wembley stadium watching the FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Blackpool.

Burgess, Mayor of Erith beside a woman footballer as he kicks a ball ahead of the match between female munitions workers during World War II, held at...

Munitions Workers Match, 1943

The Austrian soccer players Karl Decker and Gerhard Hanappi in front of a Sport Toto shop. Vienna. 1949.

Karl Decker and Gerhard Hanappi

Football team of French soldiers in the German prison camp Stalag XA . Ca. 1942.

Sport, Football, International Match, Huddersfield, 27th November 1946, England 8 v Holland 2, England goalkeeper Frank Swift slides out to gather...

Sport, Football, International Match, Huddersfield, 27th November 1946, England 8 v Holland 2, England goalkeeper Frank Swift slides out to gather the ball as England defender George Hardwick, left, looks on

Halfback Charley Trippi of the Chicago Cardinals tries to avoid being tackled by Rams defender Pat Harder in a 27 to 22 win over the Los Angeles Rams...

Charley Trippi - File Photos

1940s: Players warm up before a game of women's football circa 1940.

Women's Football

Footballers from London clubs Arsenal and Fulham taking part in making an instructional film for the Football Association at Hendon, 15th September...

Football On Film

Philadelphia Eagles' Steve Van Buren runs the ball down the field during a playoff game, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1948. Moving in on...

Eagles's Van Buren Outruns Chicago Defense

Part of the 36,034 spectators, mostly Washington supporters, who crowded into Griffith Stadium to see the Chicago Bears snow under the Washington...

View of Crowded Football Stadium

Referee Jack Barrick looks on as Manchester United Football Club team captain Johnny Carey and Harry Johnston , team captain for Blackpool Football...

1948 FA Cup Final Manchester United vs Blackpool

Charlton Athletic Football Club manager Jimmie Seed.

Jack Carey of Manchester United and Ireland tackling a Brentford player during a match at Brentford's ground, Griffin Park in London.

The Chinese amateur football players of Hong Kong's Sing Tao Sports Club on their way to play the first match of their London tour against Dulwich...

Members of the England football team pose for a picture at Highbury before the start of a series of International matches: Left to Right:- Frank...

English Footballers

Mud covered pupils at Eton School tussle during the annual 'Wall Game' that occurs every St Andrew's Day. The game, a rough, muddy and chaotic...

Vintage colorized historic souvenir photo postcard published circa 1945 as part of a series titled, 'Miami the Magic City,' depicting an aerial view...

Postcard, Orange Bowl Stadium, Miami, ca 1945

Members of the Butlins Social Club Ladies Football Team get ready for their match against Guys Football Club, London, UK, 29th October 1949; Margaret...

Early Women's Football

Young woman, a Washington Post reporter, looks at children playing American football on the Ellipse, in front of the White House, in Washington DC,...

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