University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Athletic Communications Office.

Intercollegiate athletics at the University of North Carolina began in 1884, when the first intercollegiate baseball game was played. Baseball and football were the most popular sports for many years, but after World War II, basketball eclipsed baseball. As the number of teams and the interest in them increased, so did the administrative operation of athletics. In 1947 the first director of sports publicity was hired. Later the Sports Information Office was established. The name of the office went through several permutations before becoming the Athletic Communications Office sometime after 2000. Records consist of materials created by and collected by the Athletic Communications Office, previously the Sports Information Office, pertaining chiefly to intercollegiate sports at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Materials include press releases, newspapers clippings, game programs, game statistics, media guides, brief histories, photographs, and scrapbooks. Sports represented include baseball, men's and women's basketball, boxing, cross-country running, field hockey, football, men's and women's golf, men's and women's gymnastics, hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, rowing, men's and women's soccer, softball, swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. However, there is much more material relating to men's basketball and football than to any of the.

From the description of Records of the Athletic Communications Office, 1890-2010. WorldCat record id: 238817096

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