Content Description This collection contains a Cornell University Big Red Bear mascot costume with retired Cornell hockey jersey. This design of Touchdown made its final appearance on October 2nd, 2022 at the Field Hockey game. The design was in use for approximately ten years. The subsequent costume design made its first public appearance on October 14th, 2022 for the Red & White Hockey game. Collection also includes other jerseys and tshirts worn by Touchdown and a folder of materials related to ...

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Letters to Wyckoff concern scheduling and strategies of football games, potential Cornell players, and arrangements for Wyckoff to officiate. Other letters are from family members, Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers, and several from Joseph William Beacham, Jr., an All-America substitute end, 1895. Also includes eight photographs. Correspondence from Marshall Newell, former Cornell football coach.

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Cornell Football Rules of 1879, including letter of transmittal and elucidation.

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Football poster by J. C. Leyendecker of the 1913 Cornell University vs. University of Pennsylvania game.

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Films and videos of Cornell University football games, scrapbooks, clippings, and programs.

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Photographs, tickets, programs, football ephemera, and other material pertaining to student life at Cornell.

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Clippings, articles, biographical information, and football programs relating to Scott Oliaro's career at Cornell. Also, "Weight control practices of lightweight football players," co-authored by Oliaro and published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Vol. 25, No. 6, June 1993.

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Papers include report of the student manager for the Cornell/Penn football game, 1933, with a letter from William R. Robertson about the game, 1992; additional manager's notes; and football programs, 1933-1936.