UA 023.004 Guide to the University Archives Photograph Collection, Athletics Photographs, 1893 - 2003

• UA 023.004.000. General
• UA 023.004.010. Baseball
• UA 023.004.020. Basketball, Men's
• UA 023.004.030. Cross-Country, Track-and-Field, Men's
• UA 023.004.040. Football
• UA 023.004.050. Golf and Tennis, Men's
• UA 023.004.060. Soccer, Men's
• UA 023.004.070. Swimming and Diving, Men's
• UA 023.004.080. Wrestling
• UA 023.004.090. Basketball, Women's
• UA 023.004.100. Cross-Country, Track-and-Field, Women's
• UA 023.004.110. Golf and Tennis, Women's
• UA 023.004.120. Gymnastics
• UA 023.004.130. Swimming and Diving, Women's
• UA 023.004.170. Other Sports
• UA 023.004.140. Soccer, Women's
• UA 023.004.150. Softball
• UA 023.004.160. Volleyball
• UA 023.004.180. Cheerleaders and Mascots
• UA 023.004.190. Marching Bands, Drum Majors and Majorettes
• UA 023.004.210. Sports Fans
• UA 023.004.220. Wolfpack Club
• UA 023.004.240. Athletics Department
• . Duplicate Photographs

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Creator

North Carolina State University. University Archives.

Quantity

28.25 Linear feet

General Physical Description note

102 albums, 5 card boxes, 2 boxes, 3 half-boxes

Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff .

Language

English

Acquisitions Information

This is an open collection created by the University Archives from various sources.

Processing

Processed by Jonathan A. Underwood and Stephanie A. Horowitz. Machine-readable finding aid created by Stephanie A. Horowitz. Finding aid updated by Stephanie Barnwell, 2012 January.

Revised

2012 January,

Scope and Content Note

The athletics photographs contain largely black-and-white photographic prints and contact prints, but it also includes slides, transparencies, negatives, and color photographic prints. These photographic images document the history of North Carolina State's intercollegiate athletics program from 1893 to 2003.

The photographs include images of the following men's intercollegiate sports: baseball, basketball, cross-country and track-and-field, football, golf and tennis, soccer, swimming and diving, wrestling, ice hockey, fencing, lacrosse, rifle, and boxing. It also includes images of the following women's sports: basketball, cross-country and track-and-field, golf and tennis, soccer, swimming and diving, gymnastics, softball, and volleyball.

There are images of individual players, coaches, competitions, groups of players, and entire teams. The photographs also include activities with an integral relationship to intercollegiate athletics, such as cheerleaders, mascots, marching bands, drum majors and majorettes, sports fans, the Wolfpack Club, sports summer camps, and the NC State Athletics Department.

Historical Note

Athletics began unofficially at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (North Carolina A&M) on March 2, 1892, at what by 2006 was Raleigh's Pullen Park. On that day, 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-string teams of area colleges. After losing badly to the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest, the football team decided that it 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's second-string team, to which it lost, 22-0.

Football remained the most popular sport at the college throughout its first decades. 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, and in 1918, football player John Ripple became the school's first All-American.

By the first decades of the twentieth century, other sports had been organized and began to gain in prominence as well. 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.

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.

Until 1921, all teams had used the nickname "Red Terrors." In 1921, the NC State football team began using the name "Wolfpack." Although prominent NC State individuals such as Chancellor J. W. Harrelson disliked the name, it became popular among the student body, and in 1947 "Wolfpack" was adopted as the official nickname of all NC State teams.

Although by the latter half of the twentieth century basketball had become the most popular college sport in North Carolina, prior to World War II NC State's basketball teams never sold out games and lost as many games as they won. In 1946, NC State hired Everett Case to coach its men's basketball team. During his first decade coaching the team, its record was 267 wins and 60 losses, including six straight Southern Conference titles, three straight Atlantic Coast Conference titles, and six of seven Dixie Classic tournaments. Case retired in 1964 after popularizing college basketball not just at NC State, but all over North Carolina and the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The racial integration of athletics at NC State began in 1957, when African Americans Manuel Crockett and Irwin Holmes joined the track team. The integration of the most popular, money-making sports, however, did not begin until 1967, when Marcus Martin, a walk-on, became the first African American football player. The first African American scholarship football player, Clyde Chesney, joined the team in 1969. In 1973, basketball player David Thompson was the first African American NC State athlete to be named All-American in any sport.

In 1972, two students, Kathy Bounds and Deb Webb, organized an NC State women's basketball team, and in 1974, the Athletics Department agreed to support it as an intercollegiate team. The women's intercollegiate athletics program at State expanded rapidly after 1975, when athletics director Willis Casey hired Sandra Kay Yow. Yow and her assistants organized women's volleyball, softball, rifle, and fencing teams in rapid succession, and women also began to join the swimming and tennis squads. Susan Yow, on the basketball team, became the first woman NC State 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.

For more information about the history of NC State athletics, please see the North Carolina State University Athletics Timeline . For further information on current NC State athletics, please go to NC State's official athletics website .

Alternate Form of Material

Digital copies of many photographs are available online .

Controlled Terms

1. Baseball--North Carolina
2. Basketball for women--North Carolina
3. Basketball--North Carolina
4. Boxing--North Carolina
5. Cheerleading--North Carolina
6. College athletes--North Carolina
7. Contact prints
8. Cross-country running--North Carolina
9. Diving for women--North Carolina
10. Diving--North Carolina
11. Drum majorettes--North Carolina
12. Drum majors--North Carolina
13. Fencing--North Carolina
14. Football--North Carolina
15. Golf for women--North Carolina
16. Golf--North Carolina
17. Gymnastics--North Carolina
18. Hockey--North Carolina
19. Lacrosse--North Carolina
20. Marching bands--North Carolina
21. Mascots--North Carolina
22. Negatives
23. North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts--Students.
24. North Carolina State College--Students.
25. North Carolina State University--Bands.
26. North Carolina State University--Baseball.
27. North Carolina State University--Basketball.
28. North Carolina State University--Football.
29. North Carolina State University--Golf.
30. North Carolina State University--Gymnastics.
31. North Carolina State University--Hockey.
32. North Carolina State University--Mascots.
33. North Carolina State University--Photographs.
34. North Carolina State University--Sports.
35. North Carolina State University--Swimming.
36. North Carolina State University--Tennis.
37. North Carolina State University--Track and field.
38. North Carolina State University--Volleyball.
39. North Carolina State University--Wrestling.
40. Photographic prints
41. Portraits, Group
42. Slides
43. Soccer for women--North Carolina
44. Soccer--North Carolina
45. Softball--North Carolina
46. Sports spectators--North Carolina
47. Sports--North Carolina
48. Swimming for women--North Carolina
49. Swimming--North Carolina
50. Tennis--North Carolina
51. Track and field--North Carolina
52. Transparencies
53. Volleyball--North Carolina
54. Women athletes--North Carolina
55. Wrestling--North Carolina

Related Material

North Carolina State University Athletics Department Director's Records (UA 015.001)

North Carolina State University Athletics Department Subject Files (UA 015.007)

North Carolina State University Athletics Timeline

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