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Collection Outline
Sketch
The first organized athletic contests waged by Centre appear to be the football games with Transylvania University in 1879 and 1880. A Transylvania Student from Australia had seen the game played in England, and interested his fellow students in the game. Transylvania ordered a ball and a rule book, and promptly issued a challenge to Centre. Centre accepted - provided of course Transylvania would be sportsmanlike and send them a rule book also.
Centre's first organized team play began, however, in 1891 when games were scheduled with the Louisville Athletic Club, Central University (Richmond) and the "State College" (University of Kentucky). Throughout the 1890's and into the early 20th century, Centre continued to build a football dynasty, culminating in the "Praying Colonels" glory years from 1917 to the mid-1920's when the college became one of the nation's football powerhouses. During those years, Centre met such modern day powers as Harvard ; Auburn; Clemson; Texas A&M; Tulane; Arizona; Georgia; Alabama; Michigan State; and Tennessee, and defeated many of them. The Praying Colonels glory years began with Centre alumnus "Chief" Robert L. Myers returning to his alma mater as head coach. Myers recruited such greats as Bo McMillan, Matty Bell, Sully Montgomery, Red Weaver, and Bill Janee from a Fort Worth high school where he had coached. These players, along with Red Roberts, formed the nucleus of the team. Myers accepted the post of athletic director, and "Uncle Charlie" Moran arrived in 1917 to lead the Colonels to some of their most memorable triumphs, including Centre's defeat of Harvard on October 29, 1921 - still regarded as one of the one of the greatest football upsets of the century. Centre continued to field fine football teams, though by the 1930's the college began to de-emphasize its prominence as a football power, and later ceased awarding athletic scholarships.
In 1962 Centre became a founding member of the College Athletic Conference, a conference of schools that believed intercollegiate sports should not offer athletic scholarships, and offered competition in football, soccer, cross-country, basketball, baseball, golf, track and tennis.
Though football has been the most documented sport offered at Centre, it is by no means the only one. Organized sports at Centre seem to date from 1891, when the college proudly dedicated its new Boyle-Humphrey Gymnasium, and hired Walter D. Berry as "Instructor in Physical Culture." Centre offered competition in track, tennis, gymnastics, and of course baseball, where the college produced a number of pennant winning teams.
Collection Description
The collection has been divided into sub-groups representing the various sports Centre has offered, in addition to files of athletic directors such as Robert L. Myers and Briscoe Inman. The sub-groups for baseball and football constitute the largest share of the materials and each has been divided by series, with each series containing a different type of document. The single largest series consists of football programs from 1919 to the present.
This collection consists for the most part of programs, schedules, manuscripts and related materials. Additions will be made to this collection on a regular basis, as current sports materials are forwarded to the archives. It should be noted that a recent addition - the files of (Thomas) Briscoe Inman (who served in various capacities as athletic director and coach of football, basketball, wrestling, golf, and baseball from 1952-1977), provide a wealth of information concerning sports at Centre during the last three decades. The inventory for the Inman Papers consists of a container listing of subject files (arranged alphabetically by topic), though an addendum has been added, providing explanations behind some of the subject titles on the list.
Collection Inventory
CC-10.1 Basketball
Series A Programs
- Folder 1 Basketball team programs, programs from tournament, 1928-1979
- Folder 2 Basketball team programs, programs from tournament, 1980-date
Series B Miscellaneous
- Folder 1 Basketball team rosters, records and statistics, individual players
- Folder 2 Basketball media guides, 1962-1980
- Folder 3 Basketball team schedules, undated and dated, 1955-1975
- Folder 4 Miscellaneous papers concerning basketball (including training tips),
undated and dated 1925-1969
CC-10.2 Fall Sports
- Folder 1 Miscellaneous materials concerning fall sports, including season tickets, sports schedules and programs, media guides, NCAA collegiate championship handbook for soccer and cross country, 1979
CC-10.2.1 Men's Soccer
- Folder 1 Miscellaneous material, dated 1982-
CC-10.2.2 Cross Country
- Folder 1Miscellaneous schedules, team rostyers, meet results, 1971-
CC-10.3 Football
Series A Football Programs
Box 1 Centre College football programs, 1919-1971
- Pre-1940 programs:
- Centre vs. Tennessee (1919)
- West Virginia vs. Centre (Nov. 8, 1919)
- Centre vs. State (Nov. 15, 1919)
- Harvard vs. Centre (Oct. 23, 1920)
- Kentucky vs. Centre (Nov. 13, 1920)
- Texas Christian University (Jan. 1, 1921)
- Harvard vs. Centre (Oct. 19, 1921)
- Centre vs. Washington & Lee (Nov. 19, 1921)
- Football Banquet (Dec. 9, 1921)
- Banquet (Dec. ?, 1921)
- Centre vs. University of Kentucky (Nov. 4, 1922)
- Football Banquet (Jan. 6, 1922)
- Centre vs. Virginia Polytechnic (Oct. 14, 1922)
- Kentucky State vs. Centre (Nov. 3, 1923)
- Centre vs. University of Kentucky (Nov. 1, 1924)
- University of Georgia vs. Centre (Nov. 29, 1924)
- University of Kentucky vs. Centre (Oct. 31, 1925)
- Centre vs. University of Kentucky (Nov. 20, 1926)
- Centre vs. Wabash (Nov. 8, 1930)
- Centre vs. Western Ky. Teachers (Oct. 3, 1931)
- Centre vs. Mercer University (Oct. 31, 1931)
- Centre vs. Murray State Teachers College (Sept. 24, 1932)
- Centre vs. Transylvania (Oct. 8, 1932)
- Centre vs. University of Mississippi (Nov. 16, 1935)
- Centre vs. Birmingham-Southern (Oct. 17, 1936)
- Centre vs. Oglethorpe University (Oct. 2, 1937)
- Centre vs. Davidson College (Oct. 23, 1937)
- Centre vs. Army (Oct. 7, 1939)
Series A Football Programs
Box 2 Centre College football programs, 1919-1971
See printed inventory for complete listing
Series B Miscellaneous Football
- Folder 1 Records of Centre College football teams, 1879-1984, list of head football coaches, 1879-1980
- Folder 2 Manuscripts and articles concerning the history of Centre College football
- Folder 3 Manuscripts and articles concerning the history Praying Colonels and the Centre Harvard games
- Folder 4 W. Dorant Berry correspondence, 1893-1894. (Physical Director, 1891-1894)
- Folder 5 Media Guides, team rosters, team statistics, date booklets, 1919-1972
- Folder 6 Media Guides, team rosters, team statistics, date booklets, 1974-1975
- Folder 7 Media Guides, team rosters, team statistics, date booklets, 1976-1977
- Folder 8 Media Guides, team rosters, team statistics, date booklets, 1978-1979
- Folder 9 Media Guides, team rosters, team statistics, date booklets, 1980-1981
- Folder 10 Media Guides, team rosters, team statistics, date booklets, 1981-1984
- Folder 11 Football game and season tickets, undated and dated 1921-1969; team schedules, 1908-1960, 1991-date
- Folder 12 News releases, miscellaneous materials concerning College Athletic Conference and football, undated and dated, 1977-date
- Folder 13 Miscellaneous correspondence concerning football, 1973
- Folder 14 Miscellaneous materials concerning other CAC football teams, 1971-1978
- Folder 15 Miscellaneous Centre football materials, including a diagrammed football play from the 1890's, training tips and duties of various positions. Ticket to Centre/Transy game (Nov. 16, 1929), Centre/UPI (Nov. 16, 1940), Centre/W&L (Nov. 5, 1938-gift of Al Mead), Georgetown/Centre Thanksgiving Day Game announcement
- Folder 16 Miscellaneous invoices concerning football equipment and games, dated Sept. 12, 1922-Jan. 10, 1923
- Video 1 Run That By Me Again, Centre vs. Harvard 1921 (Aired on KET Sept. 18, 1977) 1 VHS copy, 1 DVD copy
NOTE: See CC-53, Miscellaneous Posters and Handbills for an oversize poster announcing a football game between the Centre and Kentucky State freshmen in Danville on Oct. 20 (no year given) and a handbill for the Centre-Georgetown game, 1919
Series C Football Volumes
- Volume 1 Brown, John Y., Sr. Legend of the Praying Colonels
- Volume 2 Haughton, Percy D. Football, and How to Watch It.
Contains photos from the Centre-Harvard games of 1920, 1921
- Volume 3 Haughton, Percy D. How to Watch and Understand Football.
Written by the coach of the Harvard team, 1908-1916, this volumes contains photos from the Centre-Harvard game in 1920
- Volume 4 Those Prayin' Colonels, 25th Reunion of the 1955 Centre Football team October 17, 18, 1980
- Volume 5 College Football; modern record book. 1972
- Volume 6 NCAA Championships Handbook: Football. 1979
CC-10.4 Sports - Miscellaneous
- Folder 1 Sports miscellaneous. Includes: Centre season tickets; constitutions
of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association, 1914, and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, 1926; lists of names of donors to boxes in Centre College stadium with letter of August 4, 1936 (prior to the elimination of those boxes); Centre sports related programs; Intramural Sports Handbook, dates inclusive 1910-1983; ticket register, State-Centre Football game, Lexington, Kentucky, 1924
- Folder 2 Sports miscellaneous. Includes: College Athletic Conference results and records 1969-1970 and 1981-1972; Centre College Athletic Handbook, 1972; Centre College letterman, 1973-1974; pamphlets discussing athletics at Centre, 1976-1981. "Centre College Athletic Board of Control" letterhead stationary; NCAA Collegiate Championships 1970, 1973, 1976/1977, 1978/1979; "History of sports at Centre" (beginning dates) 1985; summary of C.A.C. championships 1962/1963 - 1977/1978; C.A.C. Spring Sports Festival, 1977-1978; Intercollegiate athletic programs, 1976/1977; 1977/1978; 1978/1979
Series B Athletic Letters/Certificates Awarded
- Allen, Frank - Football 1917
- Bell, Madison - Football, Basketball 1917-1918
- Davis, Allen - Basketball 1918
- Davis, W.T. - Track 1927
- Ervin, Joe - Track 1918
- Glein, Franklin - Football
- Green, James E. - Football 1923
- Hudgins, Hope - Football 1923
- James, William - Track 1918
- Leather, John Allen, Jr. - Baseball, Basketball 1925
- Lemon, Clifton W. - Football, Baseball 1922-1923
- McMillin, Alvin Nuggent - Football, Basketball, Baseball 1919-1920
- McMillin, Bo - Track, Football, Basketball 1917-1918
- Moran, Thomas - Football
- Ogden, Robert - Track 1918
- Rubarth, Frank - Football 1922
- Snowday, Terry H. Football, Basketball 1922-1923
- Spurlock, Albert - Football 1923
- Tate, T.B. - Basketball, Football 1917-1918
- VanAntwerp, H. - Football
- Walden, Julian - Basketball, Track 1918
- Walden, William J. - Basketball, Track 1919-1920
CC-10.5 Spring Sports
- Folder 1 Schedules, programs, media guides for Spring sports, 1873, 1949-1966
- Folder 2 Schedules, programs, media guides for Spring sports, 1969-1992
- Folder 3 Schedules, miscellaneous materials for baseball team, undated and dated 1909
- Folder 4 Schedules, media guides for baseball team, 1973-1975; Centre baseball: historic highlights
- Folder 5 Miscellaneous schedules, media guides for golf team, 1975-1983; Historic highlights
- Folder 6 Miscellaneous schedules, results, rosters, for tennis team, 1973-1975; Men's tennis: historic highlights
- Folder 7 Programs for track and field events, 1893, 1927-1929
- Folder 8 Miscellaneous track and field materials, undated, and dated 1922-1983; Men's track: historic highlights
CC-10.6 Swimming and Water Sports
- Folder 1 Miscellaneous materials concerning the swim team, water sports, and Boles Natatorium
CC-10.7 Winter Sports
- Folder 1 Winter sports schedules for men's and women's basketball, swimming and wrestling 1968-1983. Media guide (1986/1987-1987/1988)
CC-10.8 Women's Athletics
- Folder 1 Miscellaneous materials concerning women's athletics
- Folder 2 Miscellaneous materials concerning women's basketball, individual players
- Folder 3 Women's basketball team programs, programs from tournaments, 1975-date
- Folder 4 Miscellaneous materials concerning women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, 1983-1992
- Folder 5 Miscellaneous materials concerning women's softball, 1982-1983
- Folder 6 Miscellaneous materials concerning women's tennis, 1981-1982
- Folder 7 Miscellaneous materials concerning women's track, 1982-1983
- Volume 1 Baird, Kitty Rogers. Women in Physical Education and Sports at Centre College, 1854-1978
- Volume 2 Womens's Recreation Association scrapbook, 1966-1967 (located in CC-37 Scrapbooks)
CC-10.9 Robert L. Myers Papers
- Folder 1 Correspondence, Robert L. Myers, Director of Athletics, 1920-1922
CC-10.10 Briscoe Inman Papers
Box 1
- All Sports Banquet
- Athletic Awards
- Athletic Committee
- Athletic Inventories
- Athletic Policies
- Baseball - 1948 - Statistics
- Basketball Statistics - 1952-1974
- Basketball Statistics - Cumulative
- Boles Natatorium
- Budget - 1965-1966
- Budget - 1967-1969
- Budget - 1969-1970
- Budget - 1970-1971
- Budget - 1971-1972
- Budget - 1972-1973
- "C" Club
- College Athletic Conference - Constitution & Bylaws
- College Athletic Conference - Minutes
- College Athletic Conference - Miscellaneous
- College Athletic Conference - Results - 1960's
- College Athletic Conference - Results - 1970's
- College Athletic Conference - Results - 1962-1973
- College Athletic Conference - Tournaments - May 8-10, 1969
- College Athletic Conference - Trophies
- Conditioning Program
- Correspondence - Centre President
- Correspondence - Miscellaneous
- Danville High School
- Equipment Orders - Golf - 1971-1974
- Equipment Orders - Men - 1968-1969
- Equipment Orders - Men - 1969-1970
- Equipment Orders - Women - 1968-1970
- Equipment Orders - Wrestling - 1971-1975
- Evaluation Sheets - 1974
- Fetterman, John
- Football - 1955 - Reunion
- Football - 1956 - Statistics
- Football - Defensive Statistics - 1974-1975
- Football - Defensive Statistics - 1976
- Football - Miscellaneous
- Football Playbook
CC-10.10 Briscoe Inman Papers
Box 2
- Golf - Rules
- Golf - 1966-1967
- Golf - 1968
- Golf - 1968-1969
- Golf - 1969-1970
- Golf - 1971
- Golf - 1972-1973
- Golf - 1974
- Golf - 1975
- Golf - 1976
- Intramurals
- Intramurals - Softball - 1973-1974
- Intramurals - Softball - 1975-1976
- Intramurals - Softball - 1977
- Intramurals - Volleyball - 1973-1974
- Intramurals - Volleyball - 1975-1976
- Intramurals - Volleyball - 1977
- K.W.I.C. - Basketball Tournament - 1977
- Letter Orders
- Lettermen
- National Collegiate Athletic Association - Pamphlets
- Physical Education - Courses
- Physical Education - Miscellaneous
- Physical Education - Proposed Program - 1977
- Physical Fitness Charts
CC-10.10 Briscoe Inman Papers
Box 3
- Team Records - 1952-1953
- Team Records - 1953-1954
- Team Records - 1954-1955
- Team Records - 1955-1956
- Team Records - 1956-1957
- Team Records - 1957-1958
- Team Records - 1958-1959
- Team Records - 1959-1960
- Team Records - 1960-1961
- Team Records - 1961-1962
- Team Records - 1962-1963
- Team Records - 1963-1964
- Team Records - 1964-1965
- Team Records - 1965-1966
- Team Records - 1966-1967
- Team Records - 1967-1968
- Team Records - 1968-1969
- Team Records - 1969-1970
- Team Records - 1970-1971
- Team Records - 1971-1972
- Team Records - 1972-1973
- Team Records - 1973-1974
- Team Records - 1974-1975
- Team Records - 1975-1976
- Team Records - 1976-1977
- Team Records - 1977-1978
- Wrestling - 1970-1971
- Wrestling - 1971-1972
- Wrestling - 1972-1973
- Wrestling - 1973-1974 - Medical exams
- Wrestling - 1974
- Wrestling - 1974-1975 - Physicals
- Wrestling - 1975
- Wrestling - 1976
- Wrestling - Physicals
CC-10.11 Sports Newsletters/News Releases
- Folder 1 Football Parents Newsletter, 1981-1983
- Folder 2 Colonel's Report, 1983-1986
- Folder 3 Colonel's Report, 1991-1993
- Folder 4 News releases, 1990-1993
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