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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Athletics and Recreation

 Organization

Biography

The Athletic Media Services office, part of Northwestern University’s Athletics and Recreation Department, is responsible for preparing publicity and informational materials about Northwestern University’s inter-collegiate sports teams. For each sport, Athletic Media Services produces annual Media Guides, game or season programs, and press releases.

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Athletic Department Football Films

 Collection
Identifier: 25/1
Abstract This collection of Northwestern University football films dates between 1929 and 1984 with a gap for the period 1932–1934. The films record actual intercollegiate games although for many seasons not all contests are represented. The films are most complete for football seasons from the 1950s through the 1980s; beginning in the late 1950s, practice, junior varsity, and freshman team game films often are included. Northwestern team and Big Ten Conference football highlight films are scattered...
Dates: 1929-1984

Athletic Department Football Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: 25/3
Abstract

This series consists of a scrapbook chronicling the intercollegiate games played by the 1948 Northwestern University football team, which went on to play in and win the 1949 Rose Bowl.

Dates: 1948-1949

Athletic Department Sports Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: 25/2
Abstract

Included in this series are six scrapbooks of clippings documenting Northwestern University athletics for the years 1926-1927, 1927-1928, 1928-1929, 1929-1930, 1930-1931, and 1932-1933. The clippings mainly relate to University achievements in major intercollegiate sports including football, basketball, swimming, track, and baseball. Other sports are reflected as well but with less frequency and detail.

Dates: 1926-1933

Records of The Athletic Department Track Team

 Collection
Identifier: 25/4
Abstract

The records of the Northwestern University track team consists of three major subseries: cross country, indoor, and outdoor seasons. The records include meet schedules and brochures, team rosters, practice times, qualifying times during meets, notices of awards, clippings, and track records in metric equivalents.

Dates: 1969-1983

Records of the Athletic Media Services

 Collection
Identifier: 25/6
Abstract The Athletic Media Services office, part of Northwestern University's Athletics and Recreation Department, is responsible for preparing publicity and informational materials about Northwestern University's inter-collegiate sports teams. The Records of the Department of Athletic Media Services span the years 1871 to 2002, with the bulk of the materials dating from the 1950s through the 1990s. Each sport's season will have folders containing programs, statistics, and press releases, as well as...
Dates: 1871-2002

Frederick L. Hemke (1935-2019) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 19/3/11
Abstract In 1956, Frederick L. Hemke was appointed as Professor of Music at Northwestern University in 1975. Hemke was the Northwestern University faculty representative to the Big Ten Conference from 1981 to 2001 and served as the Big Ten faculty representative to the NCAA. He has served on numerous Big Ten committees, including the management review and finance committee where he served as chairman. The Frederick L. Hemke Papers span the years 1962 to 2004.The Papers document Hemke's career at...
Dates: 1962 - 2004; Other: Majority of material found within 1990 - 2000