Elsie Crabtree Evans Hobbs scrapbooks, 1937-1986.

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Elsie Crabtree Evans Hobbs scrapbooks, 1937-1986.

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Scrapbooks containing newpaper and magazine clippings, photographs, correspondence, and other materials relating chiefly to Crabtree's activities, as a drum majorette at the University of Nevada in 1939; together with materials concerning her later majorette activities at Compton College, Compton, Calif., her subsequent operation of a baton twirling school in Tucson, Ariz., and a reunion of football team players and Elsie Crabtree Evans, in Reno, Nev., in the 1980s.

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Nevada State Historical Society

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Compton Community College.

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Hobbs, Elsie Crabtree Evans

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College drum majorette and baton twirler of University of Nevada and later at Compton College ( where she enrolled in 1941 after dropping out of the University of Nevada), Compton, Calif.; b. 1922?; her short skirts and popular high-stepping routines at football games were censored by the university's dean of women and thus attracted national attention; she continued her controversial routines as the mascot of a Reno "town football team" that played games in Nevada and other western states. ...

University of Nevada

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College Bowl began in 1953 as a radio program under sponsorship of the General Electric Company, moving to television in 1959. Each week two collegiate undergraduate teams would compete to be the first to correctly answer a variety of scholarly questions. The winner would return the following week, and the school would receive a General Electric scholarship grant. In 1963, the University of Nevada was invited to compete. Traveling to New York City with team coach Harold Kirkpatrick, the Nevada t...