Content Description The Albert Richard Football Map Collection consists of four oversize poster maps published by the Milwaukee-based Albert Richard Clothing Company and created by artists F.E. Cheeseman. The colorful maps depict the contemporary football scene with an emphasis on college football. Many college football teams are represented geographically on the maps by pennants and/or mascots. The maps also include other information around the edge like conference champions, historical All-Americans, or keys...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 100 All-America Football Conference regular season and pre-season exhibition game programs. This collection excludes post-season playoff game programs and all-star game programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, data about the participating teams, and advertisements.Formats include...

Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by teams in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). The annual guides published prior to each season generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of game statistical summary sheets from the All-American Football Conference from 1946 to 1949. Each sheet records individual statistics for players from both teams, including rushing (times carried, yards gain, yards loss, net gain), passing (number of attempts, number of completions, interceptions, net gain, scoring passes), receiving (number caught, yards gained), interception returns (number, yards gained), punting (times kicked, yards kicked), punt returns...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 400 American Football League regular season and pre-season exhibition game programs. This collection excludes post-season playoff game programs and all-star game programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, data about the participating teams, and advertisements. The programs tend to become longer and more...

Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by teams in the American Football League (AFL). The annual guides published prior to each season generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other information...

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This collection contains pre-season prospectuses published by teams in the American Football League. The annual prospectuses generally included biographies of coaches and players, statistics, schedules, and other information. The prospectuses—produced closer to the beginning of the pre-season—were often typed and mimeographed and were less extensive than the contemporaneous team media guides.

Formats include prospectuses.

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This collection consists of American Football League annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements.

Formats include yearbooks.

Content Description A group of five mimeographed radio scripts for the Bernie Bierman Program broadcast on WCCO, Minneapolis during the 1941 Minnesota football season. Each script runs from 16 to 19 pages and includes Minneapolis Star Journal Sports Editor Charles O. "Charlie" Johnson interviewing Bierman about the previous week's game. Each script also includes a preview of the next game on the schedule usually with reporting by one of Minnesota's football scouts. The Bernie Bierman program was sponsored by...

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The bulk of this collection consists of two spiral-bound notebooks with financial records related to the 1937 Philadelphia Eagles season. One notebook includes player salary information, and the second notebook includes information about advertisers in programs for home games and information about people who bought season tickets. The collection also includes one letter from Bert Bell to his wife Frances Upton.

Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by teams in the Canadian Football League. The annual guides published prior to each CFL season generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other information for...

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This collection contains programs for the annual Chicago College Football All-Star Charity game. The game pitted a group of recently graduated college football All-Stars against the previous season’s championship team of the professional National Football League.

Formats include programs.

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This collection consists of 5 scrapbooks pertaining mainly to football in the Chicago-area. Most of the clippings orginated in the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Subjects featured in the scrapbooks include the annual Chicago Tribune All-Star Charity Games, the NFL Chicago Bears, and other college bowl games.

Scope and Contents This collection contains fall sports media guides published by four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The guides typically emphasize football—but unlike media guides specifically devoted to football—fall sports media guides also include information about other traditional fall sports, most notably men’s soccer and men’s cross country and sometimes men’s golf and men’s tennis. By the 1970s and 1980s some media guides also cover women’s sports, particularly field...

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This collection contains programs for charity football games between college football all-star teams and teams of professional football players.

Formats include programs.

Scope and Contents This collection contains annual publications in magazine format devoted primarily to college football. The magazines mostly cover major college football teams and conferences in the United States. Some magazines also provide information about football teams and leagues at other levels. The magazines published prior to the season—or sometimes during the season—generally included reviews of the previous year’s season; team and players statistics; and previews of the upcoming—or...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of media guides for college football conferences. The media guides typically contain pictures, articles, statistics, schedules, and information about the conference teams and their players, coaches, and other personnel. The guides also usually contain administrative information about the conference, its constituent colleges/universities, historical data about the conference and other information for members of the media. The media guides tend to become larger,...

Scope and Contents One homemade fan poster of the Harrisburg Trojans football team. The poster consists of clippings pasted to a piece of cardboard from an unknown printed book or program about the Harrisburg Trojans written by Manager Ned Givens in about 1945.The poster includes a summary page that reads:“The 1945 Harrisburg Trojans professional football club have played five games thus far this season, and they are proud after eight years of playing to honor the loyal fans with this...

Content Description This collection consists of 30 letters and telegrams to and from Homer Clifford Selby (1880-1959) about the National Football League's Portsmouth Spartans franchise located in Portsmouth, Ohio. Selby was a local shoe company executive, who in late 1931 assumed leadership of a local committee charged with rescuing the Portsmouth franchise from debt and insolvency. Selby remained involved through the end of the 1933 season, but the committee's work was unsuccessul and could not pay down the...

Scope and Contents This collection documents John C. Bermingham's time a student at the University of Notre Dame from 1938-1942. Of particular note are the materials related to Bermingham's job as the Senior Manager of the Notre Dame varsity football team during the 1941 season. The records relate to Bermingham's responsibilities as Manager, including organizing the traveling party for away games, managing sideline passes for home games, and other activities. The collection contains photographs, documents,...

Content Description The primary item in this collection is one personal scrapbook kept by Princeton University football player John R. DeWitt during his time on the team from 1901-1903. The scrapbook includes news clippings, ephemera, photographs, telegrams, and other items. The collection also includes a few loose items. Materials in the scrapbook are chronologically arranged, and cover the 1902 and 1903 football seasons (with emphasis on the 1903 victory over Yale) and the 1903 and 1904 seasons in track and...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of football grid graphs created by John J. McGrath while listening to radio broadcasts of Notre Dame football games. McGrath took notes during the game and charted the action on the field as described by the announcers. He recorded and described each play of the game on a football-field shaped diagram, using arrows, lines, and descriptive notes.McGrath’s grid graphs typically went through several phases. The grid graphs started from notes and diagrams...

Content Description This collection consists of 21 scrapbooks in loose-leaf binders about college and professional football in the years after World War Two. Spanning the years from 1946 to 1957, the scrapbooks mostly contain newspaper clippings, but also include magazine articles, programs, and game charts. The scrapbooks cover football on a national scale, though many scrapbook have an on pro and college teams from California and on the University of Notre Dame. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown...

Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by teams in the National Football League. The annual guides published prior to each NFL season generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other information for...

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This collection contains pre-season prospectuses published by teams in the National Football League. The annual prospectuses generally included biographies of coaches and players, statistics, schedules, and other information. The prospectuses—produced closer to the beginning of the pre-season—were often typed and mimeographed and were less extensive than the contemporaneous team media guides.

Formats include prospectuses.

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This collection consists of National Football League annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements.

Formats include yearbooks.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of printed material related to the National Women’s Football League (NWFL) and predecessor teams associated with the Women’s Professional Football League. The NWFL was a professional American tackle football league that existed from 1974 through 1988. The collection includes programs, yearbooks, guidebooks, ephemera, and clippings. The programs and yearbooks typically contain rosters, player bios and photographs, coaches bios and photographs, team histories, rules,...

Scope and Contents The double-sided wooden board game features Knute Rockne’s Official Football Game and the Official Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Football on one side, and the Official World Series Baseball Game and the Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Baseball on the other side.The football game board features images and facsimile autographs of Knute Rockne and Graham McNamee. The baseball game board features two images of Graham McNamee with a radio microphone and features the text,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 2,400 college football game programs dating from the nineteenth century until 1939. The collection emphasizes prominent major college football teams, but hundreds of different four-year colleges from all parts of the United States are represented. Holdings for schools from the West are particularly strong. Most of the programs are from after 1921 with fewer than 100 programs for games from 1920 or before. The programs typically contain pictures, articles,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 1,750 National Football League regular season and pre-season exhibition game programs dating from the 1920s until 1969. This collection excludes post-season games and all-star games. Most of the programs are from after 1940 with only about 75 programs for games from before 1940. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team...