Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0586
Creator:
Code, Thomas K.
Creator:
McGovern, Lloyd
Title: Thomas K. Code papers
Dates: 1892-circa 1960
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of Lloyd McGovern, 2000
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
Thomas K. Code Papers (SC0586). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Thomas K. Code earned his A.B. in geology at Stanford University in May 1896; he was quarterback of the first football team
(1892) and played on the 1893 and 1895 teams as well.
Description of the Collection
Papers include a scrapbook of newspaper articles about the Stanford football team ca. 1892-1895, with a few about Code's earlier
football experience in San Francisco; photographs of Code, 1896 and 1910, of the 1895 Stanford football team, and of the class
of 1895 wearing their Plug Uglies (the hat of the junior class); a letter to Code from H. S. Hicks, 1931; and Code's obituary,
ca. 1960. Collection also includes two pamphlets by A. R. E. Wyant, "Dividends of the Depression - An Optimistic Philosophy
of Life" and "Christy Mathewson - Great Athlete, Soldier and Christian Gentleman" and his letter to the sports editor of the
Palo Alto Daily News, 1957.
Access Terms
McGovern, Lloyd
Stanford University -- General subdivision--Sports.;
Wyant, A. R. E., (Andrew Robert Elmer)
Football--California.