Records, 1886-1992.

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Records, 1886-1992.

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The records of the Physical Education Department date from 1886 to 1992 and document the development and evolution of physical training for men and women at Oberlin College. Records from the Men's Department comprise the bulk of this record group (Subgroups I-V) and include correspondence of the Directors of Athletics; information on Oberlin's philosophy of athletics and the manner in which it evolved; curricular material; and files of correspondence and minutes pertaining to the Ohio Athletic Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Files related to intercollegiate and intramural athletics include correspondence about events, team information, coaching notes, and results and scores. Files of the Department of Physical Education for Women trace that program from the mid-1880s through the 1980s. Records include early anthropometric charts, handbooks and curricular material developed by Delphine Hanna (1854-1941) among others, individual alumnae files, 1886- 1963, correspondence, and minutes. For both departments a large amount of publicity material and extenisve photograph files exist.

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Nichols, John Herbert, 1890-1979

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Physical educator, athletic administrator, camp owner, and director. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1890 and raised in Marietta, Ohio where he excelled in high school sports. In 1911, he graduated from Oberlin College where he earned nine athletic letters and all-Ohio honors. He received the M.D. degree from Rush Medical College at the University of Chicago in 1916. At Chicago, he met the legendary football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) and refereed scrimmages for him, leading to a position as...

Leonard, Fred Eugene, 1866-1922

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Fred Eugene Leonard (1866-1922), Oberlin College Professor of Physical Education, and historian. Born in Darlington, Wisconsin and raised in Utah, Leonard took his preparatory work in the Salt Lake (Utah) Academy and earned the A.B. from Oberlin College in 1889. At Oberlin, he became interested in physical education, took the medical course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, graduating in 1892. He returned to Oberlin College as Director of the men's gymnasium in 1893. Widely ...

Butler, Lysle Kendall

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Savage, C. W. 1869-1957

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Oberlin College. Physical Education Dept.

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The general philosophy of physical education at Oberlin emerged from the "learning and labor" concept of manual labor established by Oberlin's founders. During the mid-19th century Oberlin moved from the concept of manual labor to gymnastic exercise. The first formal program of physical education at Oberlin began in 1885 under Delphine Hanna. Hanna taught a men's class which produced such eminent leaders in physical education and medicine as Thomas D. Wood, Luther Halsey Gulick, and Fred E. Leon...

Hanna, Delphine, 1854-1941

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Scott, Jack, 1942-

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