This Library of Congress photo shows goal line action during a circa 1902 college football game. At the turn of the 20th Century the infield of the half-mile race track at the York Fairgrounds played host to college football games. The York Collegiate Institute, a predecessor to York College, played
Denmark’s world famous equestrienne Lilian Wittmack used this promotional literature during the 1950s, in the United States, for booking appearances at county fairs, horse shows, TV programs and other events. Lilian announced her decision to make York her permanent residence in the States during a June 1950 horse show appearance
This is a photo of hunters, mounts and hounds gathered to await the signal of the horn to ride to the Rose Tree Fox Hunt in York County during November of 1967. If you are reading this on the Ydr.com site, click on this LINK for a Full View of
Classics from YorksPast In 1992, York International Corporation built USA Luge a state-of-the-art refrigerated indoor training facility in Lake Placid, New York. The February 1998 issue of Popular Science, focusing on the science of the Olympics, discussed the rise of the USA Luge Team in world competitions. Quoting from page
As a long-time Olympic sponsor, York International Corporation was allowed to make Olympic Pins. This is a small sampling of those pins; shown at about twice size. Quoting from a February 4th, 1992, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper article: In addition, the company makes pins, sought worldwide by collectors, that bear York’s
In 1995, everything was in place, to close three blocks of South George Street for several hours, for members of the 1994 U. S. Olympic Luge Team to give sliding demonstrations using wheeled luge sleds. Unfortunately a constant drizzle on April 30th required a change of plans. Instead, inside the
The February 1998 issue of Popular Science, focusing on the science of the Olympics, discussed the rise of the U. S. Luge Team in world competitions. Quoting from page 73: The U. S. [Luge] team’s secret weapon is its training facility, the York International Luge Training Complex in Lake Placid,