West Virginia University - Football.

Scope and Contents Collection of newspaper clippings regarding athletics at West Virginia University, primarily in the period of 1950-1980. Includes series of clippings regarding football, basketball, general athletics, and the athletics department. General athletics clippings include articles regarding baseball, cheerleading and the Mountaineer mascot, first nationally televised sporting event from West Virginia, non-revenue sports, racial integration, rifle team, and Title IX and women's sports, among other...

Overview Programs for West Virginia University football and basketball intercollegiate games. Football programs are scattered and incomplete in the range from 1940-2001, although there is a concentration for the 1961-1967 seasons; basketball programs are similarly scattered and incomplete in the range from 1950-2001, with the exception of the 2000-2001 season. Most programs are for individual games although there are a few guides for entire seasons as well. Miscellaneous items (box 1, folder 1)...

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Twenty-seven clipping scrapbooks covering West Virginia University athletics for the period September, 1953 to May, 1963. Includes magazine and newspaper articles regarding all sports engaged in by the University's Athletics Department, including football, basketball, and baseball.

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Biographical information regarding John Forrest Knight (1901-1976), or "Fuzzy" Knight, a successful West Virginia University (WVU) cheerleader, and member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He was also a musician who wrote two WVU fight songs, including "Fight Mountaineers" (1923) and "To Thee, Our Alma Mater" (1927), and worked as a theater musician in Fairmont, and in Morgantown. He later had success in Hollywood films.

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Photographs of three West Virginia University (WVU) football games in 1972 by photographer Terry Arbogast for a Fairmont, West Virginia newspaper. Opponents for these three games were from William and Mary (10-7-1972), the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Richmond respectively. There are 65 black and white prints and one "Track Privileges" pass.

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Copies of news clippings from West Virginia newspapers regarding contract negotiations between West Virginia University football coach Rich Rodriguez and the University of Alabama.

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Program for production of Shakespeare's "Richard III" put on by the University Specialty Company, 16 April 1892. The production was mounted to raise money for West Virginia University's first football team. Program includes a synopsis and cast of characters; the title role was played by Melville Davisson Post, a law student who would become a popular author of detective fiction. Written in pencil on the reverse of the program is "WVR, VF, Class-1892".