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Track and Field

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Athletic Department photographic negative collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03.AN
Scope and Contents The Athletic Negative collection is composed of negatives of Michigan State Normal College athletic teams as well as images from the Physical Education department who was responsible for organizing women's athletics on campus and tightly integrated with the Athletic department in the 1950s when these images were taken. The collection has been divided by sport and includes 8 series: Football, Cross Country, Track, Basketball, Baseball, Golf, and Physical...
Dates: 1953 - 1957

Athletics collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03.A
Abstract

The Athletics collection dates from the years 1890-2014, with a gap between 1980-2000 in the men's and women's articles and statistics. The collection includes administrative files, such as correspondence, minutes, agendas, and reports. Also included are athletic handbooks, photos, media guides, sports programs, clippings, ticket stubs, pamphlets, rosters, schedules and flyers. The collection documents both men's and women's organized sports at EMU.

Dates: 1890 - 2015

Bob Parks scrapbook collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03.BP
Abstract

The Bob Parks scrapbook collection contains the photographs and clipping scrapbooks of both the Track and Field and Cross Country teams that Parks coached from 1967-2000 as well as when Parks was a team member during from 1949-1952. Materials in the scrapbooks were collected and compiled by Bob Parks. The collection contains three series: Albums, Photographs, and Scrapbooks.

Dates: 1949 - 2003

Bowen Field House records

 Collection
Identifier: 015.BFH
Abstract

This collection documents the construction of Bowen Field House in 1955 at Michigan State Normal College. Records include renovation plans, press clippings, and other materials dating from 1954-2009. This collection is valuable to the history of college sports.

Dates: 1954 - 2009

College Medley Race, The Butler Alumnus Club of Indianapolis Trophy, 1941

 Item — Object 24: [Barcode: 32307023304570]
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Athletics collection spans from the years 1890 to 2014 with a gap between 1970 to 2000 in the men's and women's articles and statistics. The collection includes agendas, bylaws, correspondence, marketing plans, minutes, proposals, policies, and reports. There are also handbooks, photos, clippings, newsletters, booklets, flyers, games notes, media guides, memorabilia, pamphlets, schedules, programs, and ticket stubs. The materials in the...
Dates: 1941

Division of Girls and Womens Sports

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Geraldine K. Barnes papers consist of textual paper documents and paper-back books. The Personal Papers series comprises Box 1 of the collection, and contains biographical information, faculty reports, correspondence, and Division of Girls and Women's Sports (DGWS) administrative materials. The series, "Division of Girls and Women's Sports," comprising five boxes of the collection, contains paperback rule books...
Dates: 1964 - 1993

Geraldine K. Barnes papers

 Collection
Identifier: 010.GKB
Abstract

The Geraldine K. Barnes papers contain resumes, biographical information, annual faculty evaluations, correspondence, Division of Girls' and Women's Sports administrative documents (agendas and meeting minutes), and sports rulebooks published in the early to mid-19th Century. The collection serves as a cross section of Barnes' tenure at Eastern Michigan University and is a more completely a picture of girls and womens sports in the early 1900s.

Dates: 1964 - 1993

Gloria Ewing Lockhart collection

 Collection
Identifier: 04.GEL
Abstract

The Gloria Ewing Lockhart collection is a selection of materials that documents every decade of Eastern Michigan University alumna Gloria Lockhart. Included in the collection are photographs, clippings, a signed copy of her book Unmasking: A Woman's Journey and track and field memorabilia. Materials in the collection date from 1964-2014.

Dates: 1964 - 2014

Jack Weiss collection

 Collection
Identifier: 013.JW
Abstract

The Jack Weiss collection contains one letterman blanket that belonged to Weiss while he attended Michigan State Normal College. Weiss lettered in both football and track and field. He was number 64 on the football team and play for four years. Weiss competed in the weights division of track and field for three years. He graduated from MSNC in 1950.

Dates: 1946 - 1950

James Balten, Sr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03.JB
Abstract James J. Balten, Sr. born September 13, 1915 and graduated from Akron New York High School. During his time at the Normal College he was a member of the Phi Delta Pi fraternity and the Physical Education Club, held the position of lineman on the football team where he lettered in the fall of 1936, '37 and '38 and threw shotput for the Track and Field team (1938, '39). He graduated in 1939 with a Bacelor of Science degree in Physical Education. Balten served in the 505th Bomb Group during...
Dates: 1936 - 1939