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Women college athletes

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Purdue University Athletics collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 160
Scope and Contents The Purdue University Athletics collection documents Purdue athletics from the earliest years to recent times. The majority of the collection consists of items related to Purdue football; a scrapbook of clippings from the 1800s that contains Purdue football related articles from Lafayette, Indianapolis and Chicago newspapers. The clippings include an article about Purdue’s first football win on November 16, 1889, an article about the game against Wabash, November 23, 1889, that prompted the...
Dates: 1880 - 2016

Gertrude Bilhuber papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 15: Series MSA 18, Series 10; Series MSA 18, Series 1; Series MSA 18, Series 2; Series MSF 275, Series 1; Series MSF 275, Series 4, Placement: 05
Identifier: MSF 35
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one folder with a study by Dr. Bilhuber - "This study concerns itself with the effect of menstruation on the motor ability of college women in certain sports".

Dates: 1926

Jeanne Wilson Vaughan papers

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSA 8
Scope and Contents

One oversize folder of clippings and photographs of Purdue alumna and Olympic swimmer Jeanne Vaughan.

Dates: 1948; Other: Date acquired: 03/06/2010

Murphy Family papers

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSA 273
Scope and Contents The Murphy Family Papers (1916-1929, 1999; 0.5 cubic ft.) document the student life and activities of Rosemary Murphy and Mary Marguerite Murphy during their school days at Purdue University. Subject areas include women's sports at Purdue University (basketball, soccer, track), the Purdue "We Girls Rifle Team," physical education for women students at Purdue, and the various fraternities, sororities, honors and athletic societies to which the Murphy women belonged. The bulk of the papers...
Dates: 1916-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1929; Other: Date acquired: 01/05/2007

Speech Correction alumna papers, addition 03

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 37
Identifier: 20210304

Opal D. Stech scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 36
Scope and Contents The Opal D. Stech collection is contained in a scrapbook, which documents Opal Stech's time as a Purdue student. The scrapbook includes programs from various events, invitations, newspaper clippings, news photographs and mementos. Some of the organizations and subjects in the scrapbook include the Purdue Christian Foundation, the Little Theater, the Women's Athletic Association, numerous convocations and lectures, Kappa Beta, Mother's Day events, The Twelve (Christian group), R. O. T. C.,...
Dates: 1928 - 1934

Women's Athletic Association of Purdue University constitution

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 48, Placement: 05
Identifier: MSP 217
Scope and Contents

One small pamphlet titled "The Women's Athletic Association of Purdue University, W.A.A. Constitution," undated (circa 1925).

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 03/10/2010