1965-66 Media Guide

Item Information

Title:
1965-66 Media Guide
Description:
The 1965-1966 press guide for the Springfield College football team. The press guide includes the 1965 varsity schedule, listing the opponents, the time, and indicating which games will be televised on WWLP-TV. The guide also includes the 1964 results record for the 1964 season. The middle pages include the varsity roster with each of the player's name, number, class year, age, height, weight, and hometown. The names are organized into categories according to position and there are stars indicating the lettermen on the team. Another page has 7 Springfield College players and pictures of "who to watch" for the season, which includes the two captains Scott Taylor and Gary Wilcox. The final page shows the all-time record holders for Springfield College in different categories.
Creator:
Springfield College
Date:
1965
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Series:
Springfield College Football Team Papers
Subjects:
Springfield College
Springfield College--Football
Springfield College--Sports
Springfield College--Sports--Men
Pamphlets
Football
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/15383
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, Babson Library, 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
Notes:
The 1965 team was led by head coach Ted Dunn and ended the season with an undefeated record winning all 9 of its games. This is a feat that has never before been accomplished at Springfield College. In one of their “best games of the year”, they defeated Northeastern with a final score of 16-14 in front of 12,000 fans. The team was named New England College Division Champions and Dunn was named New England College Division Coach of the Year. In 1890, Amos Alonzo Stagg, a Yale all-American and major league baseball pitching prospect, came to Springfield College (then known as the YMCA Training School) and started the college’s first football team. A grad student in a one-year program to become a YMCA Physical Director, he served as Coach, Manager, Captain, and Player on this original team often called “Stagg’s Eleven” or “The Stubby Christians.” The team finished the first season with a record of 5 wins and 3 losses, playing Yale strongly in the first indoor football game ever played in Madison Square Garden. Among other greats to coach the football team was James Huff McCurdy. McCurdy came to Springfield in 1895 and headed the team till 1917. He is largely responsible for helping to grow the Springfield College football team’s reputation and starting a long tradition of being feared by other colleges, in addition to his innovative work in exercise physiology. Later, Oscar “Ossie” Solem, famous Syracuse University coach, coached the team from 1946-1957.
Identifier:
football-1965-66-media-guide