The following photographs are from the City of Edmonton Archives' remarkable collection.
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City of Edmonton Archives EA-10-24	1905 Ernest Brown took this picture of the Edmonton Cricket Club in 1905. Cricket was one of the first organized sports in Edmonton.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-302-85	1909 In 1909 the Irish Athletic Club, a track and field club, posed for pictures following a good haul of trophies. Edmonton track star Alex Decoteau is standing, second from the right.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-346-5	1909 Soccer or football, as it is known through most of the world, has been played locally for many years. Accounts tell of games played outside of Fort Edmonton on Christmas or New Year's Day. This is the Edmonton Caledonian Football Club in 1909.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-246-33	1911 Edmonton - Calgary rivalry has been around for more than one hundred years. In 1911 the provincial cousins met at Diamond Park in the river valley for a football game, the result, a 5 - 5 tie.
City of Edmonton Archives EB-1-40	1911 Early public demonstrations of sporting activities sometimes took place during the Edmonton Exhibition, as is shown here in 1911.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-302-65	1915 Here are some of Edmonton's most significant athletes. Third from the left is Alex Decoteau, third from the right is Ross Sheppard and on the extreme right is Jesse Jones. Jones, a remarkable track and field athlete, ruled short distance racing in Alberta from 1915 to 1923. He qualified for the Canadian team for the 1924 Olympics, but could not get time off from work to attend. Courtesy of the Edmonton Sports Hall of Fame
City of Edmonton Archives EA-302-88	1915 Road races have been a part of this city's sporting scene for many years. At one time the races took place all year, like this one on Christmas Day.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-159-5	1915 Edmonton's best middle and long distance runner in the early years of the 20th Century was Alex Decoteau, seen heard nearing the finish line during a Christmas day race in 1915.
City of Edmonton Archives EB-27-67	1926 Connie Smith and Dot Johnson, two members of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Team, known as the Grads, posed for this basketball.
City of Edmonton Archives EB-27-87	1928 The Edmonton Commercial Graduates, were this city's first sports dynasty. Habitual winners of provincial, national and international basketball titles from 1915 to 1940, the Grads won 502 of 522 games they played. This is the 1928 team, with Connie Smith, Dot Johnson, Daisy Johnson, Kate Macrae, Elsie Bennie, Hattie Hopkins, Mildred McCormick, Marguerite Bailey, and Margaret MacBurney.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-524-7	1930 (circa) Before Telus Field or John Ducey Park or Renfrew Park, Edmontonians would cram into Diamond Park, located at the foot of McDougall Hill, to watch baseball or football.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-524-20	1931 John Ducey. "The Rajah of Renfrew", not only persistently promoted the game he loved, but also played, managed and umpired the sport for many years in Edmonton.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-160-512	1934 Women's softball reached its pinnacle during the thirties and forties, when hundreds of spectators would crowd around the diamond in Boyle Street park.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-524-34	1943 During the Second World War baseball played at Renfrew Park included not only local teams but teams from the American Army stationed in the city.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-600-64	1947 Senior Ladies Fastball League action from 1947 shows a close call between base runner Isabel Whitley and first base Mary Mercer.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-600-165	1947 The women's relay team of Sylvia Calder, Mona Creighton, Doris Nutter and Edith Skitch prepare for the Dominion Track and Field championships in 1947.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-600-3582	1949 The Edmonton Flyers were the toast of the town in the late 1940's and early 1950's. Here Edmonton's Fred Smitten narrowly misses the Regina Caps net in this action from 1949.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-600-2880	1949 Annis Stukas and Joe Schoctor beam after the Edmonton Eskimos first victory in September 1949.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-20-273	1953 One of the best speed skaters from Edmonton, Doreen McLeod-Ryan was also a Canadian champion in track and field..
City of Edmonton Archives EA-20-272	1953 Henry Martell balanced a tremendous amateur golfing career with his work with the Edmonton Police Department.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-160-481	1954 The Edmonton Eskimos are the only team in Canadian Football League history to win 3 championships in a row, and 5 championships in a row. Here, in a game from 1954, Jackie Parker No. 91 forces a Saskatchewan Roughrider out of bounds.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-20-270	1957 Betty Stanhope-Cole is Edmonton's finest woman golfer, winning local, provincial and national championships.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-535-2	1963 After several years of coming in second, the Edmonton Oil Kings finally won the Memorial Cup in 1963. Members of the team included Bob Falkenberg, Roger Bourbonnais, Dave Rochefort, Glen Sather and Pat Quinn.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-20-6354	1968 (circa) The nervous anticipation of the start of a race is captured wonderfully in this image.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-340-734	1978 In 1978 Edmonton hosted the eleventh Commonwealth Games. Two of the stars of those games were locals Graham Smith (swimmer) and Diane Jones-Konihowski who is shown here at Commonwealth Stadium.
City of Edmonton Archives (Edmonton Sun)	1979 A young Wayne Gretzky poses for the camera, before beginning his outstanding career in the National Hockey League.
City of Edmonton Archives (Edmonton Sun)	1980 One of the most popular players in Edmonton Eskimo history was the colourful quarterback from Wyoming, Tom Wilkinson.
City of Edmonton Archives (Edmonton Sun)	1981 Edmonton's association with professional baseball was revived in 1981 when the Edmonton Trappers took the field at the old Renfrew ballpark.
City of Edmonton Archives (Edmonton Sun)	1981 After a successful indoor season, professional soccer moved outdoors to Commonwealth Stadium in 1981. Here we see three Edmonton Drillers trying to stop a New York Cosmos player.
City of Edmonton Archives (Edmonton Sun)	1981 Wayne Gretzky swoops around an opponents net during the 1981 - 1982 season.
City of Edmonton Archives EA-340-2028d	1983 The 1983 World University Games brought athletes from around the world including these two American basketball players.
City of Edmonton Archives ET-13-29	1983 Water polo was a popular sport in the 1983 World University Games.