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Guide to the Stanford University, Board of Athletic Control, Records
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  • Overview
  • Administrative Information
  • HISTORICAL NOTE
  • SCOPE AND CONTENT
  • Access Terms

  • Overview

    Call Number: SC0506
    Creator: Stanford University. Board of Athletic Control.
    Title: Stanford University, Board of Athletic Control, records
    Dates: 1916-1954
    Physical Description: 1.5 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

    Custodial History

    Administrative transfer from Dept. of Physical Education, 1965.

    Information about Access

    None.

    Ownership & Copyright

    Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

    Cite As

    [Identification of item], Stanford University, Board of Athletic Control, Records (SC0506). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

    HISTORICAL NOTE

    The Board of Athletic Control of Stanford University was established in 1916. The nine member Board consisted of students, faculty, and alumni representatives. Their functions included care of athletic facilities, general control and supervision of the competitive and non-competitive athletic and physical training department, recommendations for staff appointments, control of all funds devoted to physical training and athletics for men, and oversight of competitive sports events. The Board was discontinued when the Department of Athletics was organized in 1945.

    SCOPE AND CONTENT

    The records of the Board of Athletic Control consist of minutebooks for 1916 through 1943, and bylaws, contracts, correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other miscellaneous records, 1919 through 1954. Contracts include those with University of California at Berkeley regarding football games, 1920-22, and one among Stanford, Berkeley, and University of Southern California regarding standards, 1923. Also of note is a report by Prof. W. B. Wing on the farming and sheep herding operations of the Board (on campus lands) to produce income for athletic events, 1921, much of which was overseen by Sam McDonald.

    Access Terms

    McDonald, Emanuel B.
    Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Athletic Conference..
    Stanford University -- General subdivision--Sports.;
    University of California, Berkeley. -- General subdivision--Sports.;
    Wing, W. P.
    College sports--California.
    Minutes.
    Reports.