Records of the Athletic Communications Office, 1890-2010.

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Records of the Athletic Communications Office, 1890-2010.

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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 other sports.

About 27000 items (45.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sports Information Office.

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