Seattle University Athletics Department Scrapbook Collection 1951-1975 1951-1959

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Seattle University Athletics Department Scrapbook Collection 1951-1975 1951-1959

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This collection contains a total of fifteen oversize scrapbooks of news clippings from 1951-1959 and 1970-1975, highlighting Seattle University men's basketball teams, with scattered articles on golf, tennis and baseball.

15 scrapbooks

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Special Collections, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons

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SNAC Resource ID: 6376254

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Baylor, Elgin.

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O'Brien, Eddie.

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Hopps, Janet.

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Lesser, Patricia.

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O'Brien, Johnny

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Seattle University

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The initial Articles of Incorporation, dated October 17, 1898 bear the signature of Jesuit priest Adrian Sweere, SJ, a founder of Seattle College. The subsequent revised Articles of Incorporation, dated June 1948 reflect the institutional name change to Seattle University under President A.A. Lemieux, SJ. A surge of revisions to the bylaws and statues from 1969-1972 is documented. From the description of Seattle University Constituting Documents, 1898-1972. (Seattle University). Worl...

Seattle University. Athletics Dept.

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The Seattle University Athletic Department scrapbooks contain the news clippings, pressbooks, photographs and telegrams during years of regional and national recognition for the Chieftain basketball team. The scrapbooks for 1950-1959 showcased Johnny and Eddie O'Brien, and Elgin Baylor, while recording Seattle University's rise to national attention, culminating in the NIT tournament of 1958. Female athletes Patricia Lesser (golf) and Janet Hopps (tennis) also received prominent news coverage. A...