Papers, 1866-1964.

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Papers, 1866-1964.

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Contains correspondence, personal papers, reports, notebooks, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photograph albums, books, and professional and scholastic emphemera that span Stagg's personal and professional life, 1866-1964. The majority of the collection documents Stagg's coaching career at the University of Chicago and his impact on national intercollegiate athletics, amateur sports, and education. The collection also includes material on the founding of the University of Chicago, its presidents and developments in education until 1933. Material documents the effects of World War I and II on American collegiate life, the history of the Olympics until 1928, the establishment of professional sports, prohibition, leading national and sports figures, and Chicago during the Jazz Age.

384.25 linear ft. (339 boxes)

University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago. Division of Physical Culture and Athletics

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Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives

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Judson, Harry Pratt, 1849-1927

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Harry Pratt Judson was Professor, Department of Political Science, and head dean, the Colleges, University of Chicago,1892 to1894; professor and head, Department of Political Science, and dean of the Faculties of Arts, Literature, and Science, 1894 to1907; acting president of the University of Chicago, 1906-1907; and president, 1907-1923. From the guide to the Judson, Harry Pratt. Papers, 1889-1901, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Str...

College of the Pacific

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

National Collegiate Athletic Association. Division I

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Harper, William Rainey, 1856-1906

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Noted academic who helped to organize the University of Chicago and Bradley University, and served as the first President of both institutions. From the description of William R. Harper letter to Prof. H. H. Boyesen [manuscript], 1891 Feb 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 420487062 Born in New Concord, Ohio; graduated from Muskingum College at age 14; earned a Ph. D. at Yale; teacher, Hebraist, and educator; became first president of the University of Chicago...

Stagg, Amos Alonzo, 1862-1965

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Athlete, educator. Great baseball player at Yale College (1880s). Attended Springfield College, a YMCA training school, became coach at University of Chicago (1892). A founder of Western Athletic Conference, National Collegiate Athletic Association and American Football Coaches Association. Member of U. S. Olympic Committee (1916-32). Retired after forty-one years at University of Chicago and became coach at College of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. (1933-1946). Left C. O. P. and became coach at ...

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