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College athletes

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Chicago College Football All-Star Charity Game Programs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FBG 622
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1934-1976

College Fall Sports Media Guides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GEN 540
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...
Dates: 1949 - 1987

College Football All American Team Announcements

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 902
Scope and Contents This collection contains general interest popular magazines with articles announcing college football All American teams. The contents of each magazine is complete, and the collection contains most of the All American teams selected by Walter Camp and, subsequently, Grantland Rice for Collier’s Magazine. For some years, the Collection includes “All Western Teams, and the collection also includes All American teams selected for other magazines, including ...
Dates: 1896-1962

College Football All-Stars vs. Professional Teams Charity Game Programs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FBG 624
Scope and Contents

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

Formats include programs.

Dates: 1833-1953

College Football Bowl Game Media Guides

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 550
Scope and Contents This collection consists of media guides for various college football bowl games. The media guides typically contain pictures, articles, statistics, schedules, and information about the participating teams, players, and coaches. The guides also usually contain administrative information about the bowl game, historical data about the bowl game, information about the host city, and other information for members of the media. The media guides tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial...
Dates: 1941 - 2005

College Football Bowl Game Programs

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 625
Scope and Contents This collection consists of programs for various college football bowl games. The collection includes programs for bowl games between major conference teams, like the Fiesta Bowl, the Gator Bowl, the Holiday Bowl, the Sun Bowl, the Liberty Bowl, the Peach Bowl, and others. The collection also includes programs for bowl games between small-college teams, like the Grantland Rice Bowl, the Stagg Bowl, the Burley Bowl, the Camellia Bowl, the Cigar Bowl, the Mineral Water Bowl, and others. The...
Dates: 1930 - 2011

College Football Conferences Media Guides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 530
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,...
Dates: 1945 - 2005

College Winter Sports Media Guides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GEN 541
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,...
Dates: 1947-1999; Majority of material found in 1950-1976

Cotton Bowl College Football Programs

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 623
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of college football Cotton Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Cotton Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Cotton Bowl administrators, data and statistics about the participating schools, and advertisements. The programs tend to become longer and more substantial through the years. Formats include programs.

Dates: 1941 - 1996

Men’s College Basketball Conference Media Guides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BKC 530
Scope and Contents This collection consists of media guides for college basketball 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,...
Dates: 1950-2003

Men’s College Basketball Team Media Guides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BKC 540
Scope and Contents This collection contains men’s college basketball media guides published by four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. School typically published media guides on an annual basis prior to each college basketball season. The guides 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...
Dates: 1938-2013

Men's College Hockey Team Media Guides

 Collection
Identifier: HKY 550
Scope and Contents This collection consists of printed media guides for men's college ice hockey teams in the United Statesa and Canada. Media guides were typically published by colleges or universities on an annual basis prior to each ice hockey season. The guides 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...
Dates: 1951 - 2011

NCAA Division I Women’s Softball College World Series Programs

 Collection
Identifier: GEN 645
Scope and Contents This collection consists of programs for the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Softball Championships, also known as the Women College World Series. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, bios, and statistics about the players on the teams competing in the Women’s College World Series, as well as pictures, information, and bios about coaches, team personnel, and administrators. The programs usually also contain articles about contemporary softball, information about the host schools and...
Dates: 1986 - 2008

Orange Bowl College Football Programs

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 622
Scope and Contents This collection consists of college football Orange Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Orange Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Orange Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. Some programs include information about other events associated with the Orange Bowl including beauty pageants and basketball...
Dates: 1940 - 2013

Rose Bowl College Football Programs

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 621
Scope and Contents This collection consists of college football Rose Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Rose Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Rose Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. Some programs include information about other events associated with the Rose Bowl including parades and beauty pageants. The...
Dates: 1913 - 2007

Sugar Bowl College Football Programs

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 624
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of college football Sugar Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Sugar Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Sugar Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. The programs tend to become longer and more substantial through the years. Formats include programs.

Dates: 1939 - 2005