Football -- United States -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Official Knute Rockne Football Game and World Series Baseball Game in combination with Official Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Football and Baseball
Item
Identifier: ORMG
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,...
Dates:
1931
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Pre-1940 College Football Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBC_610
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, as well as some from Canada, 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...
Dates:
1874-1939
Pre-1970 National Football League (NFL) Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_610
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...
Dates:
1926-1969
Professional Football Annual Publications - Magazine Format Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_195
Scope and Contents
This collection contains annual publications in magazine format devoted primarily to professional football. The magazines mostly cover the National Football League and its rival leagues. 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 in-progress—season,...
Dates:
1935-1997
Professional Football Leagues (NFL and AFL) All-Star Games Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_625
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 40 professional football all-star game programs. Leagues represented include the National Football League (NFL, 1922-) and the American Football League (AFL, 1960-1969). The collection includes mostly NFL Pro-Bowl programs with a small number of AFL All-Star game programs. The programs typically contain photographs, statistics, and rosters of the players on the All-Star teams. Many programs also contain articles about the history of the All-Star game,...
Dates:
1951-1991
Professional Football Playoff and Championship Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP_620
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 75 professional football playoff and championship game programs. Leagues represented include the National Football League (NFL, 1922-); the All-America Football Conference (AAFC, 1946-1949); and the American Football League (AFL, 1960-1969). The collection includes 41 Super Bowl programs. Inscribed signatures are present as noted. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the game. Some...
Dates:
1948-2013
Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 1001
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers consist of a group of notebooks compiled by football coach Reginald W. P. "Reggie" Brown. Five notebooks (1904, 1905, 1905, 1911, and 1914) document Brown’s years as an assistant coach at Harvard University. One notebook (1928) comes from his stint as the head football coach at Boston University. The 1904 and 1905 notebooks chronicle the events of those Harvard seasons through clippings, practice notes, games notes, play diagrams, game...
Dates:
1904-1997; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1939
Roger Ellis Professional Football Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10103
Scope and Contents
Papers related to the professional football career of Roger Ellis. Materials include original contracts from the American Football League, the National Football League, and the Canadian Football League; correspondence and ephemera from his playing days from several teams including the New York Giants, New York Titans, New York Jets, the Oakland Area Football Club, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Montreal Alouette. The correspondence documents the daily life of a professional football...
Dates:
1957-2008; Majority of material found within 1957-1964
San Francisco Bay Area Football Scrapbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1010
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 51 scrapbooks, most measuring 10.5 x 15 inches, covering primarily college and professional football in the San Francisco Bay area. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown person and contain clippings dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sources include San Francisco and Oakland newspapers, as well as other newspapers and magazines. Clippings include game reports, new stories, images, cartoons, advertisements, and other content. Scrapbooks 1 to 10 are...
Dates:
1945-1953
Steve Boda Big Ten Football Research Index Cards
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10052
Content Description
This collection contains statistical summaries of football games involving Big Ten conference schools created by NCAA statistician Steve Boda. Each 8" x 5" index cards lists individual and team statistics for specific games—conference and non-conference games—including rushing, passing, and scoring stats. The cards also record additional information like attendance and weather information. The collection includes statistical game summary cards for the 1933, 1934, and 1935 seasons and then...
Dates:
1933-1986
Ted Coy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1007
Content Description
The Ted Coy Papers document the football career and life of Edward H. "Ted" Coy (1888-1935), best known for being a two-time All-American football player at Yale University. One scrapbooks and two photo albums contain materials, including photographs, correspondence, school records and ephemera, related to Coy's athletic, academic, and social activities at the Hotchkiss School. One scrapbook includes mainly newspaper clippings documents the 1909 Yale football season. One scrapbook contains...
Dates:
1902-1932; Majority of material found within 1902-1909; 1928-1929
The Yale-Harvard Game Board Game
Collection — Box MSSP10108 Box: [Barcode: 00000039198775]
Identifier: MSSP_10108
Scope and Contents
One board game for two players designed to simulate the annual Yale vs. Harvard football game. The box cover depicts about 12 players in a scrum on a football field. Players wear either blue for Yale or red for Harvard, and the cover features Harvard and Yale pennants on the top left and the top right of the box. The box also features a referee watching the action, a grandstand filled with fans, and a single goalpost.The cardboard game board depicts a football field with cheering...
Dates:
1894
United States Football League (USFL) Team Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP 543
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of media guides for the original incarnation of the United States Football League during its three seasons of play in 1983, 1984, and 1985. The media guides typically contain pictures, articles, bios, and statistics about the players on the teams, as well as pictures, information, and bios about coaches and other team personnel, including owners, administrators, trainers, and cheerleaders. The guides usually also contain historical and contemporary information about...
Dates:
1983-1985
Walter "Wally" Koppisch Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10051
Content Description
This collection consists of scrapbooks and loose material gathered by football player and athlete Walter "Wally" Koppisch (1901-1953). Two large disbound scrapbooks chronicle Koppisch's athletic career at Masten Park High School in Buffalo, New York, (1919-1920) and then at Columbia University (1920-1925). The second scrapbook also contains a small amount of material about his year with the professional Buffalo Bisons football team in 1925. The collection mostly includes newspaper clippings,...
Dates:
1919-1950; Majority of material found within 1919-1924
XFL Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP 544
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of media guides for the original incarnation of the XFL during its only season of play in 2001. The media guides typically contain pictures, articles, bios, and statistics about the players on the teams, as well as pictures, information, and bios about coaches and other team personnel, including owners, administrators, and trainers, as well as advertisements. Many of the media guides contain several pages of information about the team’s cheerleaders. Formats...
Dates:
2001