H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports Archives
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The Wilmer Allison and David Snyder Collection (Finding Aid)
No full textThe Allison and Snyder Collection documents the coaching careers of University of Texas men’s tennis coaches Wilmer Allison and David Snyder. Wilmer Allison began coaching at UT in 1938 as an assistant to Daniel A. Penick, and became head coach in 1957. David Snyder was a UT tennis player from 1952-1956 and became head coach in 1973 after Allison's retirement. The collection is composed of athletic records, personal papers, books, scrapbooks, audiovisual material, and photographic material spanning the years 1903-2000. The collection showcases the administrative culture and coaching efforts of Allison and Snyder as they built and managed the men’s tennis team. It documents the team’s progress season by season, highlighting both top players and the overall achievements of UT men’s tennis
The Ottley R. Coulter Sport Photography Collection (Finding Aid)
No full textOttley R. Coulter was a circus performer, a vaudevillian, a professional bodybuilder, and one of the sport’s first historians, having collected thousands of photographs, clippings, and other sports ephemera. The collection contains sports photography chronicling bodybuilding and weightlifting from the early 20th century through the 1970s. Photographs of circus strongmen and women exhibiting their physiques and feats of strength are a highlight of this collection. Also represented are photographs and sports card ephemera that document the early days of other sports like baseball, football, cycling, wrestling, boxing, track and field, and soccer. In addition to photographs depicting the early days of physical culture, there are numerous photos of Ottley and family members during his youth through middle age, including a rare glass negative and tintype
The University of Texas at Austin Women’s Basketball and Intercollegiate Athletics Collection, no date, 1976-2006 (Finding Aid)
No full textIn 1974, as one of the first major universities to move toward compliance with Title IX legislation, the University of Texas at Austin founded the Women's Intercollegiate Athletics program. From 1976 until 2007, Jody Conradt served as the head coach for the women’s basketball program, and, with Women’s Athletics Director Donna Lopiano and Sports Information Director Chris Plonksy, was instrumental in bringing the team to prominence. The UT Women’s Basketball and Intercollegiate Athletics Collection documents this time, focusing on the development of and the publicity surrounding the women’s basketball program between 1976 and 2006. The items in this collection include newspaper articles, magazines, promotional materials, game programs, player and game statistics, photographs, commemorative game balls, and media publications put out by the Women's Intercollegiate Athletics Department
UT Athletics Media Relations Women’s Swimming and Diving Collection, 1974-2017 (Finding Aid To Collection)
No full textDating back to 1919, when the Texas Turtle Swimming Club became first organized under the Women’s Athletic Association, swimming and diving are the oldest athletic activities available to women at the University of Texas at Austin. The swimming club became an official intercollegiate team in 1969 under the leadership of Rosemary Slacks. The team received increased support and funding from the University after the passage of Title IX in 1972. The UT Athletics Media Relations Women’s Swimming and Diving Collection contains season binders, publicity publications, and season information records collected by UT Athletics Media Relations between 1974 and 2017. Included among the materials are team rosters, schedules, time sheets, meet results, press releases, programs for meets, postseason results, newspaper and magazine articles, and published media guides
UT Athletics Media Relations Women’s Track and Field Collection, 1974-2011 (Finding Aid To Collection)
No full textThe UT Athletics Media Relations Women’s Track and Field Collection documents the development of and the publicity surrounding the University of Texas at Austin’s women’s track and field and cross country programs between 1974 and 2011. UT Athletics Media Relations is the liaison between athletics personal, coaches, student athletes, and media outlets. The collection includes newspaper articles, meet programs, athlete performance statistics, promotional materials, and media publications about the UT women’s track and field and cross country programs
Christopher Gian-Cursio Collection (Finding Aid)
No full textChristopher Gian-Cursio was a naturopathic doctor, nutritionist, author, editor, and researcher. The collection reflects Gian-Cursio’s professional career as a practicing Natural Hygienist and his extensive research into the development and pioneers of the health movement in America, especially James Jackson’s “Our Home on the Hillside” Hygienic Institute in Dansville, N.Y. Also included in the collection, are a substantial number of clippings on a broad variety of health-related subjects such as food and nutrition, cancer, chiropractic care, fasting, sexual health, a small assortment of newspapers from the middle-to-late 1800s, and correspondence with other leading figures of the Natural Hygiene movement, including Jesse Mercer Gehman and Herbert Shelton. The Gian-Cursio Collection also includes an extensive complement of books, which are listed in the University of Texas Libraries catalog
