Springfield college athletics men's swimming and diving brochure (1971-1972)

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Title:
Springfield college athletics men's swimming and diving brochure (1971-1972)
Description:
This brochure is for the Springfield College men's swimming and diving team for 1971-1972. This brochure is six pages (two pages combined in the process of digitization), and the front cover shows an image of the two captains standing by the pool. The headlines inside the brochure include the 1971-72 Preview, Coaches bios, Roster, Varsity Records, and the schedule. Results for the 1970-1971 season are also given. Finally there are photographs of the coaches were Charles Silvia and Charlie Smiths and the team captains are Bill Lynch and Ned O'Meara. The last page has the varsity records for Springfield College and the records for the New England Intercollegiate Swimming Association (NEISA). The Springfield College Swimming and Diving Team got its start in 1914, the first full year of that the schools’ new Natatorium, McCurdy Natatorium, was in use. Professor George B. Affleck served as the first head coach of the men’s varsity team. The coaching responsibilities in 1920 were taken over by Herbert E. Brown, a senior at Springfield College that year. The Springfield College Swimming and Diving teams have used two facilities on the Springfield College campus. These include McCurdy Natatorium and Linkletter Natatorium. McCurdy Natatorium was a part of Judd Gymnasia, the first building erected on the present campus. A gift of Standard Oil President Herbert Pratt, it was named after physical education department head, Dr. James Huff McCurdy. It was completed in April 1913 and closed on March 18, 1968, being replaced by Linkletter Natatorium. Since that time it has served as a dance studio, weight room, the college bookstore, and, finally, in the spring of 2011, as the Springfield College History Museum which also includes the YMCA Hall of Fame. Linkletter Natatorium was dedicated on October 21, 1967. It was named after Art Linkletter, the famed entertainer best known for his TV series "House Party", because he believed so much in the project that he sold his house for $250,000 and donated the money to the project as well as conducted many fund raising activities, including “Work Week”, where students worked jobs such as trimming hedges or moving telephone poles for donations. The natatorium had a movable bulkhead that could shorten and lengthen the pool, making it was the longest indoor collegiate pool in the Eastern US at that time, two classrooms with underwater picture windows that allowed coaches and instructors to observe the swimmers, underwater speakers that allowed them to correct swimming technique as they were swimming and a closed circuit television system to further analyze swimming skills. The Art Linkletter Natatorium was incorporated into the new Wellness and Recreation Complex in 2008.
Date:
1971
Format:
Documents
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Subjects:
Springfield College
Springfield College--Sports
Springfield College--Sports--Men
Springfield College--Swimming and diving
Springfield College--Swimming and diving--Men
Silvia, Charles E.
Smith, Charles J.
Lynch, William C.
O'Meara, Edward O.
New England Intercollegiate Swimming Association (NEISA)
Swimming
Diving
Athletes
Pamphlets
Coaches
Swimmers
Swimming pools
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Extent:
5 pages
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/28339
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:
rg169-02-b-01-15-001