Finding aid: RG 173 - Springfield College Wrestling Team Records

Item Information

Title:
Finding aid: RG 173 - Springfield College Wrestling Team Records
Description:
The Springfield College Wrestling Team Records collection contains materials and information on the Springfield College Wrestling teams (varsity, junior varsity and freshman) from their first season in 1914 through the present day. The bulk of the collection begins in the mid-1950s and continues through 2010. Among these materials are scorecards, scorebooks, correspondence, memos, manuscripts, news releases, news clippings, schedules, printed publications, photographs, slides, memorabilia, and programs and brochures. There are a number of manuscripts and papers with historical information and statistics on the teams and players at Springfield College. This includes handwritten lists, printouts and printed materials. Of particular importance are the manuscripts “The Wrestling at Springfield College, 1915-1971” and “Wrestling History at Springfield College, (June 16, 1990)” that honored coach Doug Parkers’ retirement. The collection contains many printed materials such as brochures, programs, schedules and rosters from games and tournaments participated in by the Springfield College Wrestling Teams from 1914 through the modern era. Most of the materials come after 1960. In addition to those created by the college, there are some created by Collegiate sports divisions or as part of tournaments and championships within the collection, including Regional NCAA Tournaments, NCAA Division II and III Championships, and individual tournaments or invitationals like the Springfield College Doug Parker Invitational, RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) Invitational, Budd Whitehall Invitational, and the New England College Conference Championships. There is also a lot of statistical information, including scorebooks and copies of scorebooks that contain the records of the individual games played by the Springfield College varsity, junior varsity, sub-varsity, and freshman teams from the 1946-1947 season into the late 2000’s. The Scorebooks contain information on wins, falls, take-downs and other happenings that make up a wrestling match. Players from both teams are represented. Cumulative statistics, including yearly team and individual player statistics exist for almost every year from the mid-1950s through 2005. In addition, there are statistics and final results from many tournaments, including NCAA Division II and III Championships that the Wrestling team or members of the Wrestling team participated in. In addition to statistical information, there are many photographic prints, slides, negatives, and contact sheets within the collection. Photographs include team photographs, portraits of individual wrestlers, group photographs of wrestlers and/or coaches, and action (both staged and un-staged) scenes taken during games and practices from 1915 when Alvin Banks organized, coached, and captained the first official wrestling team at Springfield college through the mid-2000s. Action photographs become much more prevalent starting in the 1980s. Additional materials include news releases and newspaper articles on the Springfield College Wrestling Team, individual wrestlers on the team, and some conference or NCAA wrestling update, materials on 1984 Gold Medalist Jeffrey Blatnik (class of 1979), both in a folder devoted to him and within the various series during his time as a wrestler here. For information on the Women's Athletic/Recreation Association see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/corporate_entities/189
Creator:
Springfield College
Creator:
De Leon, Elisana
Date:
April 2017
Format:
Documents
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Subjects:
Finding aids
Springfield College
International Young Men's Christian Association College
Springfield College--Sports
Springfield College--Sports--Men
Springfield College--Wrestling
Blatnick, Jeffrey C.
Parker, Douglas E.
Arroyo, Daryl G.
Pennock, Erastus W.
Holder, Jason
Sparks, Raymond E.
Eastern College Athletic Conference
National Collegiate Athletic Association
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
NEWMAC Sports
Wrestlers
Wrestling
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/27599
Terms of Use:
Text and images are owned, held, or licensed by Springfield College and are available for personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that ownership is properly cited. A credit line is required and should read: Courtesy of Springfield College, Archives and Special Collections. Any commercial use without written permission from Springfield College is strictly prohibited. Other individuals or entities other than, and in addition to, Springfield College may also own copyrights and other propriety rights. The publishing, exhibiting, or broadcasting party assumes all responsibility for clearing reproduction rights and for any infringement of United States copyright law.
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Identifier:
125_38_136_67_2022-8-5_7538137-6410481650