A lot of people asked to see more of these, so here’s a second batch, extending a bit later into the twentieth century.
Little boy with football, c. 1910s
Wembley Stadium, 1925
Little boy with footballer toy, 1930s. Do they still make toys like this?
Football Illustrated, “A Throw-In,” c. 1940
Football Illustrated, “A Touch Line,” c. 1940
Football Illustrated, “Centre Forward,” c. 1940
Football Illustrated, “Ball Control,” c. 1940
Illustration of a soccer game played at Iowa’s Camp Algona, which held 10,000 German prisoners of war during WWII.
Molly Brett, “Fairy Games: Football.” Over to you, Jim Rome.
“Thanksgiving.” Okay, this is probably American football, but I’d like to believe that the turkey seemed like a hard tackler and the kid shrieked and picked up the ball.
Either this goalkeeper is way out of his net, or this volleyball game is being played on the wrong surface.
Bob Marley juggling
Buckingham Palace guards defend a free kick.
German football cows. Can you find the ball?
U.S. Women’s National Team photographed by Annie Leibovitz, 1996
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by Brian Phillips · October 28, 2010
Once again, this rocks.
Nothing else to say.
Enjoying these so much. I collect antique postcards (though football is not the theme – dachsuunds!) and they are always interesting.
Wonderful images.
@Roy Keane’s Gum Wait, you collect antique dachshund postcards and you don’t have a Tumblr for this?
Re: Postcard 3, they do indeed make those mini-footballers. Many play for Barcelona.
I especially like the cow being taken off in the stretcher by the medical cows.
Sol Campbell was a center forward in 1940? He looks so youthful and spritely!
Maybe (and i don’t know — just throwing this out there) the “volleyball” pic is Gaelic football?
@Will Why would volleyball players be playing Gaelic football?
The Turkey and lil’ boy remind me of what happened to Petr Cech when Stephen Hunt decided to crack Petr’s skull for a laugh.
Haha brilliant
Fabulous! The little fairies playing football deserves to be someone’s blog header, at least.
A propos, two favourite Frank Horvat images, shot in Rome: http://bit.ly/dhmxfc, http://bit.ly/b0dt8L
@roswitha Beautiful.
Very nice images. My favorite was the first.
Fascinating images. I think Sepp Blatter would approve of Bob Marley’s shorts too!