Drexel Institute of Technology -- Sports
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Baseball records
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-009
Scope and content note
The collection contains three boxes of records related to Drexel’s baseball team that were created between 1944 and 1995. The collection is arranged by year and includes newspaper clippings, statistics, photographs, letters, media guides, official scorebooks and yearbooks.The first box in the collection contains both original and photocopied newspaper clippings from local newspapers which covers the team between the years 1951 and 1988. The box also contains statistics which were...
Dates:
1944-1995
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Baseball records
Bowling records
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-015
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the Drexel varsity bowling team and includes scoresheets, 1953-1956; and newspaper articlesd, 1968-1970.
Dates:
1953-1970
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Bowling records
Football records
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-002
Abstract
The football team had its unofficial beginning at the Drexel Institute in 1892 as a student-organized sport and was discontinued by Drexel's Board of Trustees in 1973. Records consist of game programs, newspaper clippings, administrative files, rosters, score sheets, and press material. The bulk is from 1950 to 1973; materials prior to 1950 consists mainly of game programs. Administrative files include a brief history of the football program up to the 1930s.
Dates:
1920-1994; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1973
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Football records
Golf records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UR-07-018
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of newspaper clippings, press releases, statistics, programs, team rosters, and photographs.
Dates:
1947-1988
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Golf records
James Creese administration records
Collection — Box OV13, oversize: unknown container
Identifier: UR-01-007
Overview
James Creese served as the president of the Drexel Institute from 1945 to 1963. His tenure began with a tremendous influx of students in the post-WWII years and continued to oversee tremendous growth of the Institute, both in the physical expansion of its campus and in the development of its academic programs, especially in engineering and cooperative education. Such extensive development required major capital investments, for which two major fundraising campaigns were undertaken during...
Dates:
1941-1967
Men's Basketball records
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-003
Scope and content note
The collection contains nine boxes of records related to Drexel’s men basketball team that were created between 1953 and 2001, and cover the period from 1895, when Drexel played it first basketball game, to 2001. The collection is arranged by type of material. Newspaper clippings, statistics, programs, and media guides are all arranged chronologically by sport season.The first three boxes of the collection contain original and photocopied newspaper clippings dating from 1953 to...
Dates:
1895-2001
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Men's Basketball records
Parke R. Kolbe, 1899-1942, bulk: 1932 - 1942
Series
Identifier: Series IV
Scope and content note
Series 4: Kolbe, Parke R. 200 Folders This is the largest series in the collection. There is material on the Athletic Departments of Drexel during Kolbe’s tenure including budgets, data from local colleges athletic departments during the 1930’s, and a study from 1931 on athletic departments within the Middle Atlantic region correspondence with the Board of Trustee Committee on Athletics, reports on the responsibilities for the Athletic Departments of various universities, correspondence and...
Dates:
1899-1942; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1942
Parke R. Kolbe administration records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-004
Abstract
Parke Rexford Kolbe, the Drexel Institute's fourth president, served from 1932 to 1942. Before coming to Drexel, Dr. Kolbe was president of the University of Akron from 1913 to 1925 and of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1925 to 1932. As Drexel's president, Dr. Kolbe presided over the decentralization of Drexel's administration and the development of educational programs to support national defense as the threat of U.S. involvement in World War II loomed. The bulk of the...
Dates:
1931-1941
Rifle Team records
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-005
Scope and Contents
The Rifle Team records provide information on the team from 1945 until 1992. Materials include textual records such as correspondence, team rosters, and reports as well as five of the plaques awarded at various competitions. Due to lack of any discernible original order, materials have been arranged into only two series General and Award plaques. General is a fairly broad term, but perhaps the best for a series composed of only two folders. The series includes correspondence,...
Dates:
1946-1992
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Rifle Team records
Sports publicity scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: UR-07-029
Scope and content note
These scrapbooks consist of newspaper clippings collected by Marjorie R. Carmosin of the Sports Publicity office from 1946-1949.Volume 1 contains clippings from area newspapers from 1946-1949. The volume is divided into sections on Men's Sports and Women's Sports, although the arrangement of clippings by gender is not strict. The volume also covers special events at the Drexel Institute, including the Women's Athletic Association Banquet, Tag Day, the Military Review, Institute...
Dates:
1946-1949