University of Wyoming. Intercollegiate Athletics records, 1920-2002.

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University of Wyoming. Intercollegiate Athletics records, 1920-2002.

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The Intercollegiate Athletics collection is mostly comprised of films of UW football and basketball games. There is a fairly complete run of football games dating from 1936 to 1997. A fairly complete run of basketball games dates from 1971-1997, with a few films existing outside these dates. About 5% of the films document other UW sports from the 1980s and 1990s. The collection also includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings for UW football and basketball (1920-1946), and a small portion of football schedules and game brochures (1955-1969).

32.32 cubic ft. (39 containers + 100 items)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Intercollegiate Athletics dates back to 1893 when the first UW football team was created. Basketball was formed in 1904, and sports such as boxing, wrestling, fencing, and gymnastics were formed after World War I. During the 1930s and 1940s, swimming, skiing, track, golf, baseball, and tennis were started. Up until the 1960s, intercollegiate sports were played in the Mountain States Athletic Conference. During the 1960s, the conference was reformed and renamed the Western Athletic Conference. In...