Sports spectators

Content Description This collection consists of 15 scrapbooks of sports clippings housed in period three-ring binders. The scrapbook clippings include material clipped from both newspapers and magazines and contains game reports, feature stories, opinion columns, cartoons, and other material from many different publications. The scrapbook covers the full range of popular college, professional, and amateur sports with some emphasis on baseball and boxing. Most clippings document men's sports, but there are also...

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The George Koyt Short Track Motor Racing Photographs comprises 459 photographs of short track racetracks in the United States and Canada. The collection contains images of speedways primarily located in the Midwest, East Coast, and one in Manitoba, Canada. Photographs capture mid-race shots, signage, fans, cars, and general layout of the raceways. Some images include racers such as Jody Ridley, Patrick Gann, and Tony Weyant, among others.

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...