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  • [Delta Phi's winning Homecoming sweepstakes float, 1952]
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    Parade floats; Brigham Young University--Students; Brigham Young University--Students--Social life and customs; Brigham Young University--Sports; Brigham Young University--Football; Sports spectators; La Vell Edwards Stadium (1964) (Provo, Utah);
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    Delta Phi's winning sweepstakes float of the 1952 Homecoming, bearing the week's theme of "A Y's Promise," is brought into the stadium during the halftime of the football game, a 23-14 Cougar victory over the Denver Pioneers.
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [Baseball players after learning that BYU had turned down an invitation to play in the College World Series because games were scheduled on Sundays, 1958]
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    Brigham Young University--Baseball; Brigham Young University--Athletics; Sports facilities;
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    The locker-room gloom reflected on the faces of these 1958 BYU baseball players didn't follow a game defeat. The somber scene was the outgrowth of a University struggle with the NCAA over Sunday playoff games. Members of Coach Jay Van Noy's team...
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [Gary Sheide leaves the field with his arm in a sling, December 28, 1974]
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    Brigham Young University--Football; Brigham Young University--Athletics; Sports injuries;
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    BYU's Gary Shieded, the nation's number two quarterback, leaves the field with his arm in a sling as a result of a shoulder separation three minutes before the end of the first quarter in the Fiesta Bowl Game, December 28, 1974, dimming BYU's hopes...
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [Stadium House, 1937]
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    Brigham Young University. Stadium (1928); Brigham Young University--Athletics; Brigham Young University--Sports; Stadiums; Brigham Young University--Students; Brigham Young Academy--Buildings;
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    Plans for construction of the Stadium House were announced on February 5, 1936, and contributions came in immediately from faculty, social units, the community, and the class of 1929. Dr. T. Earl Pardoe donated proceeds from all school dramatic...
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [Aubert Coty and Coach Ott Romney hand out equipment to athletes in the Men's Gymnasium, 1930s]
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    Brigham Young University--Sports; Brigham Young University--Athletics;
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    Assisted by wrestling coach Aubert Coty, Coach Ott Romney hands out equipment to BYU athletes in the Men's Gymnasium: Hap Nisonger, unidentified, Mack Warner, Pete Wilson, unidentified.
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [Brigham Young University students and Utah State University students struggle for possession of the Old Wagon Wheel, 1953]
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    Brigham Young University--Students; Brigham Young University--Students--Social life and customs; Brigham Young University. Student Activities; Sports rivalries; Utah State University--Students;
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    Brigham Young University students, left, and Utah State University students, right, struggle for possession of the Old Wagon Wheel, symbol of football supremacy between the two schools before the game in 1953. The tradition dates back to 1949.
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [Basketball game versus the University of Utah, 1937]
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    Brigham Young University--Basketball; Brigham Young University--Athletics; College sports;
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    Intercollegiate basketball games were played in the Women's Gymnasium and in the Springville High School Gymnasium until construction of the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse in 1951. This is a photograph of a game with the University of Utah in 1937.
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [First swimming team, 1921-1922]
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    Provo High School (Provo, Utah); Richards Building (Provo, Utah); Brigham Young University--Athletics; Brigham Young University--Students; College sports; Brigham Young University--Swimming;
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    Brigham Young University's first swimming team, which entered competition in 1921-22, included Briant Decker, left; Hamilton Calder, T. William Harrison, Aldus Markham, and Harold Bentley. The earliest teams trained in the pool of the Provo High...
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [Basketball game in the Smith Fieldhouse, ca. 1951]
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    Brigham Young University--Basketball; Sports spectators; George Albert Smith Fieldhouse (Provo, Utah);
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    For twenty years, from 1951 to 1971, BYU varsity and freshman basketball games were played before usually jam-packed crowds of 11,000 in the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse.
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [Crowd in the new stadium, 1960s]
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    La Vell Edwards Stadium (1964) (Provo, Utah); Sports spectators; Brigham Young University--Bands; Brigham Young University--Football; Brigham Young University--Track and field;
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    Crowds fill the stadium to take in the excitement and pageantry of football and track and field competition.
  • BYU Photographs
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  • BYU Sports Newsclippings
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    Brigham Young University; Brigham Young University--Sports; Brigham Young University--Athletics; Brigham Young University--Football; Brigham Young University--Basketball; Brigham Young University--Tennis; Brigham Young University--Track-athletics;...
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    University Relations, now referred to as External Relations, incorporates many of the departments on the BYU campus. The office is responsible for alumni relations, public relations, hosting visitors, and athletics. The department has the...
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  • Athletic Department Records and Correspondence
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    Watts, Stanley Howard, 1911-; Millet, W. Floyd, 1911-; Brigham Young University; Brigham Young University--Athletics; Brigham Young University--Sports; Brigham Young University--Baseball; Brigham Young University--Basketball; Brigham Young...
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    The Department of Athletics has its roots in the early history of Brigham Young Academy. Early athletic activities included track and field, baseball, football, and basketball. From its humble beginnings, the athletic program at Brigham Young...
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  • BYU Track and Field Invitational
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    Brigham Young University--Sports; Brigham Young University--Track-athletics
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    Brigham Young University. Dept. of Athletics. Includes newsclippings of track events, official announcements, some correspondence, and scrapbook memorabilia and pep club records. Newsclippings are photocopies.
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  • Records of College of Physical Education
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    Hartvigsen, Milton Farrell, 1907-; Kimball, Edwin R., 1903-; Hart, Charles J. (Charles James), 1896-1971; Watts, Stanley Howard, 1911-; Holbrook, Leona; Robinson, Clarence F., 1923-; Millet, W. Floyd, 1911-; Geddes, David D. Heaton, Israel C. ...
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    Includes correspondence and records from the office of the dean. Also includes records from the various department offices, faculty directories, biographical sketches and newspaper clippings. ; Even though the College of Physical Education was not...
  • EAD
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  • Eugene Lusk Roberts Collection
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    Brigham Young University--Sports; Brigham Young University--Songs and music; Timpanogos Hike
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    A Brigham Young University professor of Physical Education; Includes correspondence, reports, a thesis and practicum manuscripts about Roberts, and research materials for "History of BYU Physical Education, Sports, and Athletics, 1875-1901." Also...
  • EAD
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  • Records of the Public Communications Department
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    Butterworth, Edwin, 1912-; Wilkinson, Ernest L., 1899-; Brigham Young University--Finance; Brigham Young University--Sports; Brigham Young University--Information services; Brigham Young University--Public opinion; Brigham Young...
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    Includes correspondence, minutes, financial records, and other materials relating to the operation of the University's news bureau and public relations. Also contains copies of news clippings and articles concerning the University and various...
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  • Register of the Brigham Young University Athletic Media Relations Media Guides and Related Items
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    Brigham Young University--Sports; Brigham Young University--Public relations; Brigham Young University--Baseball; Brigham Young University--Basketball; Brigham Young University--Track and field; Brigham Young University--Football; Brigham Young...
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    Athletic Media Relations is part of the Athletic Department and is responsible for the publicity of the department. Primarily media guides for men's and women's sports programs at BYU, including baseball, basketball (women's), cross country, golf,...
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  • [Boxing at the "Smokeless Smoker," 1940s]
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    Brigham Young University. Student Activities; Brigham Young University. Student Life; Brigham Young Academy--Athletics; Sports spectators;
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    An exciting annual event in October during the 1940s was the "Smokeless Smoker," a stag affair for the men students and faculty, which included a program of boxing, wrestling, and some variety numbers. It was held in the Men's Gymnasium on the top...
  • BYU Photographs
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  • [Junior class women's basketball team, 1938]
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    College sports; Brigham Young University--Basketball; Brigham Young University--Athletics;
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    Interclass sports competition flourished during the 1930s, and typical of the competitors was this junior class women's team that won the basketball championship in 1938. From top: Wanda Andrus, Mary Pintar, Lorean Lewis, Beth Soffe, Thora Carlson,...
  • BYU Photographs
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  • John Homer Wakefield (1901-1989) Photograph Collection
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    Brigham Young University; Brigham Young University--Students; Brigham Young University--Faculty; Brigham Young University--Buildings; Heber J. Grant Building (Provo, Utah); Karl G. Maeser Building (Provo, Utah); Brigham Young University--Football;...
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    John Homer Wakefield was born in 1901 in Huntington, Utah. He graduated from BYU with a degree in Botany. He did further studies at the University of Minnesota in musicology and joined the BYU music faculty in 1946. He was a talented photographer,...
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