Records, 1923-1951.

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Records, 1923-1951.

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The Department of Athletic Communications Records primarily contains press releases and correspondence from the department during the period 1935-1951, with an unusually high concentration of material from the 1950-1951 school year. The press releases are the bulk of this collection, and approximately half of those releases are football- and basketball-related. A good deal of the correspondence portion of the collection deals with football, the largest sport at Penn at the time. The collection includes a good deal of correspondence regarding press credentials and seats for the 1932-1935 Army-Navy gridiron games held at Franklin Field. This collection also contains a significant amount of press-related correspondence regarding the Penn Relay Carnivals from 1938 to 1942.

5.5 cubic feet.

University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6757084

University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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Penn Relays Carnival (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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University of Pennsylvania.

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Labrum, Joseph T., 1896-1964.

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Hunter, Edward J., 1906-1957.

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