The Khaki Final, 1915
press photograph, 1915
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 30% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe Cup Final of April 1915, Sheffield United against Chelsea, moved to Old Trafford and played under the shadow of the war — the terraces so salted with soldiers on leave that the papers named it the Khaki Final. Lord Derby, presenting the Cup, told the players and the crowd to “play with one another for England” now; competitive football shut down for four seasons the same summer. The photograph holds the last Saturday of the old world: the flat caps, the uniforms among them, everyone about to be somewhere far worse. The fixture list is a kind of peace treaty.
- Maker
- press photograph
- Date
- 1915
- Medium of the original
- Photograph
- Original held by
- Unknown press photographer, 1915 · Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Unknown press photographer, 1915 · Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01089
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 976 x 549 px, b-w
- Tone
- Darks 16, lights 195 of 255; 0.5% clipped light, 0.6% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.54
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