Archival Collections: Football

General information about football at Harvard, 1858-2005. (6 document boxes). [Call number: HUD 10000].
 

Harvard football programs, 1892-1992. (8 document boxes, 1 flat box). [Call number: HUD 10005].
 

Printed documents regarding Harvard and Princeton football, 1889-1890. (2 vol). [Call number: UAI 10.175.389].   
 

Records of the Harvard Graduates Football Association, 1895-1903. (1 folder). [Call number: HUD 3400.7000 & HUD 3400.7895.1).
 

Possible plays and formations, [circa. 1900-1910?]. (1 notebook). [Call number: HUD 10635.10].
 

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Dr. E.H. Nichols, 1905 October 2. (1 pamphlet binder). [Call number: HUM 233].

  • Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Dr. Edward H. Nichols (doctor for the Harvard football team) requesting his presence at a meeting with Harvard coach William T. Reid and football coaches and athletic advisors from Princeton and Yale Universities to “talk over certain matters connected with football.”

 

The Evils of Football, 1905. (1 folder). In: Records of the President of Harvard University, Charles W. Eliot, 1869-1930. [Call number: UAI 5.150 Box 220, Folder 164].

Intercollegiate Football, 1905. (1 folder).  In: Records of the President of Harvard University, Charles W. Eliot, 1869-1930. [Call number: UAI 5.150 Box 194].

Intercollegiate football, undated. (1 folder). In: Records of the President of Harvard University, Charles W. Eliot, 1869-1930.[Call number: UAI 5.150 Box 238].

Football, 1906. (1 folder). In: Records of the President of Harvard University, Charles W. Eliot, 1869-1930.[Call number: UAI 5.150 Box 87].


Athletics - Football Rules, [1909-1914]. (1 folder). In: Records of the President of Harvard University, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1909-1933. [Call number: UAI 5.160, Box 3, Folder 88].

Athletics Football, [1928-1930]. (1 folder). In: Records of the President of Harvard University, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1909-1933. [Call number: UAI 5.160, Box 258, Folder 145].

 

Harvard football journal, 1948, 1950-1973, 1977-1978. [Call number: HUD 10000.36].

  • Press book prepared by the Harvard Department of Athletics

 

General information by and about the Friends of Harvard Football 1962-1983. (1 folder). [Call number: HUD 3406.6000].
 

Personal Archives with Football Related Materials

Harvard football memorabilia of Philip F. Coburn, 1921-1923. (1 folder). [Call number: HUD 921.13].
 

Robert Howell Davison scrapbook, 1936-1942. (1 flat box). [Call number: HUM 123].

  • Notes:  Additional activities for the Class of 1917 documented in this scrapbook include a luncheon at the Harvard-Army football game (1939), a supper before a Harvard-Yale hockey game (1940), ...and a luncheon at a Harvard-Princeton football game (1940).

 

Malcolm W. Greenough Harvard football scrapbook, 1924-1925. (1 flat box). [Call number: HUM 372].
 

Joseph Clark Grew personal archive, 1899-1902, 1944. (1 photograph album, 1 published book). [Call number: HUM 197].

  • Notes: Includes photographs related to Harvard baseball, crew, football and relay teams.

 

Harold William Knowlton scrapbook, 1874-1998, bulk dates 1906-1912. (1 flat box, 1 half-document box). [Call number: HUM 347].

  • Notes: This scrapbook contains memorabilia related to Harvard-Yale football games, songs sung at Harvard football games.

 

Doris Martin (Keene) Harvard football scrapbook, 1926-1930. (1 flat box). [Call number: HUM 358]
 

Correspondence of James Max Rosenthal, 1905-1907. (1 flat box). [Call number: HUD 905.78].

  • Notes: Contains descriptions of football games attended by Rosenthal.

 

Madison Sayles scrapbooks, 1924-1975 (inclusive), 1925-1930 (bulk). (2 flat boxes, 1 half-document box). [Call number: HUM 255].

  • Notes: Includes materials gathered by Sayles related football & lacrosse while a student and later a coach at Harvard.

 

Joseph LeVow Steinberg personal archive, 1867, 1936-2012. (3 document boxes, 1 flat box). [Call number: HUM 335 Box 2].

  • Notes: 1 document box of Harvard football & basketball ephemera, 1947-2012.

 

Letters to his family from Albert Veenfliet and Harvard memorabilia, 1902-1909. (1 box). [Call number: HUD 903.90].

  • Notes: "Topics in the letters include...sports, especially football."

 

Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid. (1 vol). Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Football Artifacts

Red football sweater and yellow and black hat band of Charles H. Keyes, 1893. (1 box). [Call number: Accession 08890].
 

Football gear belonging to William T. Reid, circa 1900. (2 boxes). [Call number: Accession 12404].
 

Harvard football sweater, circa 1901. (1 item). [Call number: HUD 10901.5].
 

Harvard football pennant belonging to William Moulton Marston, circa 1912-1914. (1 item). [Call number: HUM 353].
 

Figurine of Harvard football player, circa 1890-1920?. (1 object). [Call number: Accession 17092].
 

Harvard intramural football medal, 1934. (1 medal). [Call number: HUD 10934.54].
 

Harvard-Yale football game ticket, 1939 November 25. (1 item). [Call number: HUY 222].
 

Harvard-Yale football game commemorative t-shirt, 1990. (1 item). [Call number: HUD 10990.2].
 

Souvenir t-shirt from the Asian American Brotherhood at Harvard University commemorating the Harvard-Yale football game, 2006. (1 item). [Call number: Accession 17544].

Souvenir t-shirt commemorating the Harvard-Yale football game, 2006. (1 item). [Call number: Accession 17545].
 

Silence Yale Campaign vuvuzela, 2010. (1 object). [Call number: HUY 46].
 

Harvard-Yale football pre-game event shirt, November 21, 2014. (1 item). [Call number: UAN 23].