Guide to the Stanford University, Board of Athletic Control, Records
SC0506
Finding aid prepared by Processed by Patricia White; machine-readable finding aid created by Patricia White
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, California, 94305
Repository email: speccollref@stanford.edu
1997
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Title: Stanford University, Board of Athletic Control, records
Identifier/Call Number: SC0506
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1916-1954
creator:
Stanford University. Board of Athletic Control.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The records of the Board of Athletic Control consist of minutebooks for 1916 through 1943, and bylaws, contracts, correspondence,
memoranda, reports, and other miscellaneous records, 1919 through 1954. Contracts include those with University of California
at Berkeley regarding football games, 1920-22, and one among Stanford, Berkeley, and University of Southern California regarding
standards, 1923. Also of note is a report by Prof. W. B. Wing on the farming and sheep herding operations of the Board (on
campus lands) to produce income for athletic events, 1921, much of which was overseen by Sam McDonald.
HISTORICAL NOTE
The Board of Athletic Control of Stanford University was established in 1916. The nine member Board consisted of students,
faculty, and alumni representatives. Their functions included care of athletic facilities, general control and supervision
of the competitive and non-competitive athletic and physical training department, recommendations for staff appointments,
control of all funds devoted to physical training and athletics for men, and oversight of competitive sports events. The Board
was discontinued when the Department of Athletics was organized in 1945.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], Stanford University, Board of Athletic Control, Records (SC0506). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Provenance:
Administrative transfer from Dept. of Physical Education, 1965.
Publication Rights:
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
Access Restrictions:
None.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
McDonald, Emanuel B.
Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Athletic Conference..
Stanford University. -- General subdivision--Sports.;
University of California, Berkeley. -- General subdivision--Sports.;
Wing, W. P.
College sports--California.
Minutes.
Reports.
Box 1, Folder 2
Contracts with the University of California, Berkeley, and correspondence between J. Pearce Mitchell and Chaffee E. Hall,
attorney
1920-1921
Box 1, Folder 3
Correspondence and miscellaneous records, includes agreement among Stanford, Berkeley and University of Southern California
on standards and copies of correspondence between Stanford President Ray Lyman Wilbur and Berkeley President Benjamin I. Wheeler
on the athletic situation of 1919
1917-1928;
Box 1, Folder 4
Correspondence and miscellaneous records, includes petitions regarding Block S privileges
1933-1938;
Box 1, Folder 5
Correspondence and miscellaneous records, includes audit report
1940-1954; 1942
Box 1, Folder 6
Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, constitution and rules and regulations
1923
Box 1, Folder 7
Wing, W.P., "Report on the farm of the Board of Athletic Control
July 7, 1921"
Box 2, Folder NF
Minutebook, with index
1916-1920,
Box 2, Folder NF
Minutebook, with index
1920-January 1933,
Box 3, Folder NF
Minutebook
February 1933-May, 1943
