Buckeye Photos from the LIFE Archives
How not to look cool on the football fieldWith all of the Michigan week activity, we’re just now getting to this, but big news on the Google front as they announced a partnership with LIFE to digitize the venerable mag’s photo archives. Photos and etchings dating all of the way back to 1750 are up and can be searched against.
Naturally, we had to head out and see what kind of Buckeye-related photos were online and the first one we stumbled upon was this shot of a Buckeye quarterback from 1948. The caption reads:
Scientists helping players improve football skills, especially passing.
Considering that ‘48 team went 6-3 and finished 4th in the conference, it’s probably safe to assume the experiment was a one year thing.
So far, Google has only added about 20% of LIFE’s collection to date, and there aren’t a lot of great Buckeye photos up, but a few others caught our eye:
- Chic Harley Mural
- Students removing busts and carpet from a lobby “as precaution against post-football game roistering”.
- Wes Fesler, 1948
- Sororiety Life, 1949
- Mixer, 1949
- The Castle, 1949
so we’ve been “roistering” for quite a while, huh? I was under the impression it was a pretty new thing
Roistering is in our bones.
Didn’t Holbrook state that as part of the reason she left the job? Absolute drunken orgies and “ridiculously rambunctious roistering by those randy rapscallions?”
when you said “castle” i thought you were referring to the old armory, which was like the coolest building in Ohio State history
old school Script Ohio FTW: http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=ohio+state+source:life&imgurl=e5225a70902d8cc3
God forbid the roistering gets out of hound.
bup bup bup, are you talking about what the Wexner center used to be? cuz that’s what I was thinking too. I was greatly disappointed
I don’t know about you guys but that sororiety life picture rings pretty true today. I bet if you go to the oval on a sunny day you will see sororiety chicks doing the exact same thing.
Bup’s right – the Armory was really a sight to see.
Great post, fellas.
I remember there being a few other things about “Sorority Life” than that picture shows!!!!!! and the girls in that mixer…… nasty! Where were the hot chicks that night?? At the sorority, of course!