College Winter Sports Media Guides Collection

Collection

Identifier: GEN 541

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains winter sports media guides published by four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Earlier guides cover only men’s sports, by the 1970s and 1980 most guides include both men’s and women’s sports. The guides tend to emphasize basketball and/or ice hockey. But winter sports media guides also include information about other traditional winter sports, including wrestling, track and field, swimming and diving, and sometimes gymnastics, fencing, rifle, skiing, squash and other sports. Guides typically contain pictures, bios, statistics, and other information about players, coaches, and other personnel for fall sports teams. They also usually contain historical data about the teams, details about the schools, and other information for members of the media. The media guides tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial through the years.

Formats include media guides.

Dates

Creation: 1947-1999
Creation: Majority of material found in 1950-1976

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Biographical / Historical

Media guides—also known as press guides or “dope books”—originated by the 1930s as a way for sports teams to provide information to members of the press about their teams, players, coaches, schedules, and other topics. Originally typed, mimeographed, and stapled sheets, the guides evolved dramatically after World War Two to highly informative trade paper publications available to the public. By the early 21st century, many teams began replacing printed guides with online guides.

Extent

6 Cubic Feet (12 document cases (letter size))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Guides are arranged alphabetically by the issuing school, and then by date. Schools are alphabetized by their familiar, shorthand names; full (current) names and locations follow in parentheses. The listing of two shorthand names for a school indicates a name change (in which cases schools are alphabetized by the second, or more recent, such name.)