Archival Collections: Athletics

Oral histories conducted by students in the course HIST 1852 The Game: College Sports as History, Fall 2020 (HUC 8999.2020)

Transcriptions and audio recordings of oral history interviews conducted with Harvard and Radcliffe alumni and alumnae. Topics discussed include the impact of Title IX (20 U.S.C. §§ 1681–1688), feminism, intramural and club sports, co-ed dorms, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, ROTC, mental health, women's participation in college sports, gender equity, support for scholar-athletes, the experiences of LGBTQ+ and Native American scholar-athletes, the campus life of scholar-athletes at Harvard, and their post-Harvard experiences.

  • Open for research.

 

General information about soccer at Harvard (HUD 11800).
May include press accounts, pamphlets, and ephemera for Harvard's men and women's soccer teams.

  • Open for research.

 

General information about softball at Harvard, 1980- (HUD 11802)
The women's softball team achieved varsity status in 1980. May contain press accounts, pamphlets, and ephemera.

  • Open for research.

 

General information about tennis at Harvard, 1890- (HUD 11827)
May include press accounts, pamphlets, and ephemera for the Harvard men's and women's tennis teams.

  • Open for research.


 
General information about volleyball at Harvard (HUD 11872).
May contain press accounts, pamphlets, and ephemera for the Harvard men's and women's volleyball teams.

  • Open for research.

 

General information by and about the Radcliffe Quadrangle Recreational Center (HUB 1727).
The Radcliffe Quadrangle Recreational Center was erected for the 1979-80 academic year. As of 2001, facilities include tennis courts which can be flooded for ice skating during the winter, squash courts, a gymnasium, exercise room; and men's and women's locker rooms. The collection may contain pamphlets, press accounts, and ephemera.

  • Open for research.

 

The third H book of Harvard athletics: 1963-2012. (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Varsity Club, 2014).
These two volumes chronicle an eventful era that saw the rise of women's sports at Harvard.