Preliminary Inventory of the North Carolina State University, Athletics Council Records, 1949-1988

Descriptive Summary

Repository: North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Creator: North Carolina State University. Athletics Council
Title: North Carolina State University, Athletics Council Records, 1949-1988
Call Number: UA 015.003
Superceded Call Number
Extent: 13 linear feet, 23 boxes and 1 oversize flat box
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.
Language of Material: English

Information for Users

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Acquisitions Information: Transferred from the Athletics Dept.
Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], North Carolina State University, Athletics Council Records, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
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Proccessing Information: Processed by unprocessed

Encoded by Steven Mandeville-Gamble, 2006 March 16

Updated by Karen Paar, 2007

Historical Note

Athletics began officially at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts on March 2, 1892 at what is today Raleigh's Pullen Park, when a football team made up of students at the college defeated the Raleigh Male Academy, a local high school, by the score 12-6. That fall, the team scrimmaged for the first time against the second teams of area colleges. After losing badly to the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest, the football team decided that they lacked the funds necessary to compete on an equal level with other colleges and universities. Therefore, they petitioned the college Board of Trustees for fifty dollars to finance travel and team equipment. With this request, the faculty and trustees of the college first became involved with intercollegiate athletics. After the board made the decision to grant the team the requested funds in 1893, North Carolina A&M played its first formal (non-scrimmage game) that fall against the University of North Carolina second team, to which it lost, 22-0.

Football remained the most popular sport at the college throughout its first decades of intercollegiate athletics. Its first on-campus game was played in 1907 at the athletic field that would become Riddick Stadium. That same year, North Carolina A&M won the Southern Intercollegiate Association championship, with six wins and one tie. The baseball team, which had played its first official game in 1894 against Guilford College, won its first state championship also in 1907. Four years later, the school played its first official basketball games against Wake Forest, with North Carolina A&M's home game played in the Pullen Hall auditorium.

Until 1921, all teams used the nickname "Red Terrors." In 1921, the NC State football team began using the name "Wolfpack," which by 1947 had spread to all other athletic teams as well. Also in 1921, NC State became a charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Conference, which also included Alabama, Alabama Polytechnic Institute (later Auburn), Clemson, Georgia, Georgia School of Technology (later Georgia Tech), Kentucky, Mississippi A&M (later Mississippi State), North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington and Lee, and Virginia Tech. In 1923, the conference changed its name to the Southern Conference. NC State remained in the Southern Conference until 1953, when along with Duke, North Carolina, Maryland, South Carolina, Wake Forest, and Clemson, it withdrew to form the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The racial integration of athletics at NC State began in 1957, when Manuel Crockett and Irwin Holmes joined the track team. The integration of "major" sports, however, did not begin until 1969, when Clyde Chesney became the first African American football player. In 1973, basketball player David Thompson was the first African American athlete to be named All-American in any sport.

In 1974, the first women's athletic team began play, in basketball, and the following year, women's softball and volleyball were introduced. Susan Yow, on the basketball team, became the first woman All-American in any sport, in 1976. Currently, in 2006, NC State has eleven men's and eleven women's varsity athletic teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which consists of twelve colleges and universities in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Florida.

Scope and Content Note

: Correspondence, minutes, and annual reports on topics including the Athletics Council, the Atlantic Coast Conference, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and North Carolina State athletics.

Organization of the Collection

Collection is unprocessed. Materials are in the original order as received from the Athletics Dept.

Online Catalog Terms

The following terms have been used to index the guide to the collection in the NCSU Library's online catalog.

Corporate Entities

National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball Tournament.
Atlantic Coast Conference.

Topics

Athletics--North Carolina.
College sports.

Detailed Description of the Collection

Minutes of Faculty Committee, 1923-1959 [UA 015.003 Box 1]
Minutes of Athletic Council, 1930-1942 [UA 015.003 Box 1]
Minutes of Athletic Council, 1942-1959 [UA 015.003 Box 2]
Correspondence, General, 1937-1939 [UA 015.003 Box 2]
Correspondence, General, 1940-1942 [UA 015.003 Box 3]
Financial Records, 1939-1941 [UA 015.003 Box 3]
Financial Records, 1943-1959 [UA 015.003 Box 4]
Salaries, 1930-1958 [UA 015.003 Box 4]
"Hunk" Anderson, 1936-1937 [UA 015.003 Box 4]
Dr. Ray Sermon, 1936-1937 [UA 015.003 Box 4]
Anderson-Sermon, 1936-1937 [UA 015.003 Box 5]
Beattie Feathers, 1951-1952 [UA 015.003 Box 5]
Horace Hendrickson [UA 015.003 Box 5]
Director, 1948 [UA 015.003 Box 5]
Miscellaneous, 1927, 1932 [UA 015.003 Box 5]
Miscellaneous, 1932-1959 [UA 015.003 Box 6]
Monograms, 1927-1959 [UA 015.003 Box 6]
Team Members, 1927-1935 [UA 015.003 Box 7]
Coliseum, 1955 [UA 015.003 Box 7]
Harold Estis, 1958 [UA 015.003 Box 7]
Atlantic Coast Conference, 1953-1959 [UA 015.003 Box 7]
Atlantic Coast Conference, 1957-1959 [UA 015.003 Box 8]
Faculty Senate, 1958 [UA 015.003 Box 8]
NCAA, 1951-1957 [UA 015.003 Box 8]
Southern Conference, 1937-1942 [UA 015.003 Box 8]
Council, Minutes - General [UA 015.003 Box 9]
Council, Meetings - Atlantic Coast Conference, Minutes, , 1959-1967 [UA 015.003 Box 10]
Atlantic Coast Conference, Minutes, 1967-1973 [UA 015.003 Box 11]
Meetings, May 1969 [UA 015.003 Box 11]
Atlantic Coast Conference, Meeting, Dec. 1969 - Dept. of [UA 015.003 Box 12]
Faculty, Committee - NCAA, 1959-1973 [UA 015.003 Box 13]
NCAA, Meetings, - Greenville Touchdown Club [UA 015.003 Box 14]
Minutes, Annual Reports, Committees, , 1949-1958, 1960s - 1980s [UA 015.003 Box 15]
Minutes, 1970-1981 [UA 015.003 Box 16]
Annual Reports, General, Meetings, Search Committees, , 1969-1981 [UA 015.003 Box 17]
Minutes/Meetings, NCAA, Other Records, 1975-1984 [UA 015.003 Box 18]
Annual Reports, NCAA, Other Records, 1976-1983 [UA 015.003 Box 19]
ACC, 1981-1984 [UA 015.003 Box 20]
NCAA: Annual Reports-Television; Association for Intercollegiate for Women, 1976-1983 [UA 015.003 Box 21]
ACC; The Wolfpack (Beezley); Other Records, 1973-1980 [UA 015.003 Box 22]
ACC, 1973-1980 [UA 015.003 Box 23]
Resolution in Tribute - Joan Benoit, 1984 [UA 015.003 Oversize Flat Box 24]
Resolution in Tribute - Kay Yow, 1986 [UA 015.003 Oversize Flat Box 24]