Little Beaver Historical Society Image Collection
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Sports and Recreation
| Image | Date............... | Keywords......................... | Source Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
View Youth baseball team, South Beaver, Township. | Unknown. | baseball South Beaver Township | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: not documented. |
View First football team, Darlington High School. 1945. Source: The News-Tribune. | 1945 | Darlington High School football The News-Tribune | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: The News-Tribune. |
View Cannelton's baseball team in front of town hall, Cannelton (Darlington Township). 1910. Source: unknown. | 1910 | baseball Cannelton (Darlington Township) | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: not documented. |
View Koppel Car Company baseball team. 1915. Source: unknown. | 1915 | baseball Koppel Car Company Koppel Borough | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: not documented. |
View Darlington Baseball Club. Caption: front row (L-R): Lee McCurcheon, Ben Winterburn, John McCarter, Frank "Tibben" McCarter. Back row (L-R): William "Nun" Sanders, Bill McCarter, John Hosack, Howard Davis, Butch Miller, Harry "Pete" Sanders, Bolton. Darlington Borough, Pennsylvania. 1912. Source: unknown. | 1912 | baseball Darlington Baseball Club Darlington Borough | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: not documented. |
View Smith's Ferry Baseball Team. 1st row seated (L-R): Cline Althars, R. Duncan, Joda Wallover. 2nd row, kneeling: Dutch Moore, C. Childs, Foster Rifftner, Carl Thompson. 3rd row, standing: Ed Wallover, G. Wallover, Jack Duncan, Stuff Hayes, George Althars and Lloyd Rice. Smith's Ferry (Ohioville Borough), Pa. 1913. Source: unknown. | 1913 | baseball Smith's Ferry Baseball Team Smith's Ferry (Ohioville Borough) | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: not documented. |
View Koppel baseball team, employees of the Koppel Car Company. Koppel Borough, Pa., 1918. Source: Ghost Rails IV Industrial Shortlines (Wayne Cole). | 1918 | baseball Koppel Car Company Koppel Borough Wayne Cole Ghost Rails IV Industrial Shortlines | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: Ghost Rails IV Industrial Shortlines (Wayne Cole). |
View Players competing at the Darlington Polo Club (Night Riders"), formed in 1937. In 1938 it became the first team in the US to have a lighted field. Darlington Borough, Pa. | unknown | polo horses Darlington Polo Club Darlington Borough | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: not documented. |
View From the Darlington Polo Club: Founded in 1937, the Darlington Polo Club is America's oldest "under the lights" polo team. The Club began playing in the summer of 1937 when Cliff Braden and other interested fans retrieved a ball from under a car at a game in Zelienople, Pa. They began playing the sport in Darlington Borough in a very primitive fashion. Their mounts were plow horses. Their mallets were hand made, they wore coal hard hats for helmets, and used gasoline cans for goal posts. They lit the field with a series of floodlights hung from the surrounding trees to play at night so that polo wouldn't cut into their work day. Darlington Polo has a home field unlike any other in the world. For over 70 years we've played under the lights and keeping with the tradition of our club's founders there has never been a game on Sunday at the Darlington field. Our season runs through the end of August at which point we give way to another tradition, Western Pa High School Football. Date: unknown. Source: Justin Powers, Darlington Polo Club Archives. | unknown | polo horses Darlington Polo Club Darlington Borough | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: Justin Powers, Darlington Polo Club Archives. |
View Darlington Polo Club daytime match. Date: 1950. Source: Justin Powers, Darlington Polo Club Archives. | 1950 | polo horses Darlington Polo Club Darlington Borough | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: Justin Powers, Darlington Polo Club Archives. |
View Darlington Polo Club members: Glenn Tetemanza, Jim Watson, Phil Thompson, Denny Stanislaw, Paul Powers. Date: unknown. Source: Justin Powers, Darlington Polo Club Archives. | unknown | polo horses Darlington Polo Club Darlington Borough | Image location: found on LBHS Facebook page. Original source: Justin Powers, Darlington Polo Club Archives. |