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Texas Tech University Archives Athletic Collections

There are numerous athletic materials available within the Texas Tech University Archives and the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. To aid researchers, the athletic resources have been arranged into the following categories on two separate web pages.

Section 1 consists of: I. Manuscripts and Publications; II. Photographs; III. Scrapbooks and Memorabilia; IV. Films and Recordings; and V. Oral History Interviews

Section 2 consists of: Addition Research Resources for TTU Athletics, Historical Tidbits, Athletic Directors and Coaches, Miscellaneous Resources, and Links to Other Athletic Resources


I. Manuscript Collections and Publications


Athlete Files


Athletic Council
After a controversy concerning the 1974 Peach Bowl, a resolution was drawn at Tech giving the Athletic Council no final authority, but instead emphasized its advisory role. Comprised to include faculty members, the matters under faculty control include enforcement of scholastic standards, supervision of all expenditures, budget preparations, recommendations of members of the athletic staff, and enforcement of recruitment regulations and athletic subsidizations.


Athletic Director's Office


Athletic Media Relations Office
Baseball, track and tennis were played at Texas Tech beginning in 1926. Golf was begun in 1936. The university also at one time maintained a swim team. Since 1925, the university's football team, The Red Raiders, has participated in over 22 bowl games and produced numerous notable athletes. Texas Tech joined the Border Conference in 1932 and became a member of the Southwest Conference in 1956. The disbanding of the Southwest Conference in 1996 led to Tech's joining the newly formed Big 12 Conference the same year.


Athletics Department


Athletics - Game Programs and Media Guides
Texas Tech game programs are published by the Texas Tech University Sports Information Office with the approval of the Athletic Council of Texas Tech University. Proceeds from the sale of the programs often went to student service Organizations such as the Saddle Tramps and Alpha Phi Omega.

Texas Tech media guides are published by the Texas Tech University Sports Information Office. Media guides include records, schedules, biographies of players and staff, and other information regarding Texas Tech Athletics and traditions useful to the media and others interested in Texas Tech Athletics.


Baseball


Basketball, Men's

  • U 486.1 Ramon W. Kireilis Collection, 1958: This one wallet collection consists of a bound publication titled "Basketball Manual: A Program of Learning Experiences" by Ramon Kireilis and H. Edsel Buchanan.

Big Twelve Conference


Border Conference


Double T Association
The Ex-Double T Association was organized to promote fellowship and support for Texas Tech athletic activities, athletic staff, players, and alumni. It's constitution outlined its membership as "The graduates and ex-students of the Texas Technological College who have been awarded, by the Athletic Counsel, the covetous "Double T" in any of the four major sports, Football, Basketball, Track and Baseball, do hereby form themselves into an aossication to be known as the "Double T Alumni Association." The organization was later renamed the Double T Association.


Football

  • S 194.1 Coaches All-American Game Collection, 1968-1977: This is a 2 box collection
  • S ? Cotton Bowl Records, 1989-1996: This 1 box collection has agenda, directories, strategic planning, policy manuals and meeting reports used by a member of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association during the early 1990s. Some materials are media guides and newsletters.

Former Athletes and Coaches Collections

  • U 309.1 Tom Abraham Papers, 1930-1985: This 1 wallet collection contains correspondence from Coach Pete Cawthon and other TTU football coaches to players in preparation for the beginning of the 1931 football season. Also includes photocopies of articles on Abraham's career, two audio CDs labeled, "Tom Abraham Memories," dated 1994, and an oral history concerning his family.
  • U 454.1 Amanda Banks Papers, 1979-2017: This 1 box collection contains information on former track athlete Banks and her former coach Jarvis Scott, and includes news clippings, Texas Tech track media guides from 1979-1991 and one Impressions magazine (1985) featuring bios of various Texas Tech coaches. Also part of the collection are 6 photographs which include Coach Scott, Veronica Cavazos, Marina Medina, and a group portrait of the 1980-1981 team which includes Sharon Moultrie and Coach Chesbro.
  • S 1472.1 Bobby Cavazos Collection, 1953-1954 [football]
  • S 171.1 Pete Cawthon Reunion Records, 1930-1975 [football]
  • S 1464.1 E. J. Holub Papers, 1990 [football]
  • William Morley Jennings Papers, 1909-1971: This 1 microfilm collection contains newspaper clippings, photographs and programs of athletic events.
  • S 1513.1 G. B. Morris Papers, 1943-1985: This 1 wallet collection includes photocopies of game programs and news clippings concerning Texas Technological College's and Lubbock Army Air Field's football program during the 1940s. Some of the news clippings date to 1985.
  • S 1459.2 Lewis N. Jones Papers, 1934-1968 and undated: This 1 wallet collection pertains to his career as a football player and coach.
  • U 401.1 Lewis N. Jones Collection, 1936-1961 and undated: This 1 box collection contains correspondence between Jones and Pete Cawthon, with one letter from Cawthon to Elmer Tarbox; Texas Tech football information packets for 1950-1951; news clippings on Cawthon, undated; the Pete Cawthon Camp, 1950; 6 photographs of Jones with Gerald Myers, possibly taken before Jones' passing; and three memorabilia items - Border Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Eligibility Rules (1936-1937), a Texas Tech Red Raiders 1937 football schedule, and a 1936 Texas Tech Red Raiders football schedule. The photographs were given to the University Archives by Athletics. The remainder of this collection was culled out from the James G. Allen Collection.
  • S 759.1 Winfield W. Nicklaus Papers, 1927-1978 and undated: This 1 wallet collection contains news clippings, photographs, and scrapbook material concerning Nicklaus' career as coach and football player. It bulks (1925-1928) with news clippings and photographs from the first three football seasons at Texas Technological College.
  • S 822.2 C. W. Ratliff Papers, 1922-1971 and undated [football]
  • S 1006.1 Elmer Lois Tarbox Papers, 1863-1978 [football]
  • U 14.1 James G. Allen Records, 1925-1969: Includes correspondence with Dutchy Smith and Lewis Jones, 1935-1940.

Intercollegiate Athletics


Intramurals

  • U 23.25 Intramurals Records, 1960-1983: This 1 box collection contains handbooks for men's and women's intramural activities and various pamphlets for recreational sports at Texas Tech University.

Lady Raiders Basketball
The Lady Raiders is the women's basketball team at Texas Tech University. In March and April of 1993, the Lady Raiders won the Southwest Conference Post Basketball Tournament and the NCAA Championship.

  • U 206.1 Lady Raiders Records, 1982-2014: This is a 5 box (4.5 linear feet) collection contains newspaper clippings, photographs, recordings, season programs and yearbooks, and various artifacts from the Lady Raiders program dated between 1982-2014.
  • U 206.3 Lady Raiders Records, 1982-2006: This 4 box collection (4.0 linear feet)contains news clippings, scorebooks, and memorabilia collected over the course of 20 plus years during the tenure of Coach Marsha Sharp. The bulk of the collection consists of scrapbooks that had been labeled, “Mail Outs and News Clippings.”
  • See U 336.1Sue Kingsbery Porter Collection -- early Lady Raiders player

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)


Recreational Sports, Department of


Red Raider Sports
Red Raiders Sports wass produced by TRI Productions and was published 8 times a year, with August and December being double issues.

  • Red Raider Sports, 1980-2006: This collection contains an incomplete run of the Red Raider Sports magazine which was published beginning in January of 1980.

Red Raider Club
A support organization for Texas Tech University Athletics, the Red Raider Club began in 1929 and was a self-governing body. In 1994, its Executive Board approved the merger of the organization with the university's athletic department. The main focus of the Red Raider Club was to raise funds for scholarships and raise revenue for the athletic department. A student component was established in 2001, and by April had become the largest student member booster club in the nation.

  • See S16.1 Alvin R. Allison Papers, 1946-1985 for information on the creation of the Red Raider Club.
  • U 279.1 Red Raider Club Records, 1950-2000: The 18 box collection consists of administrative and financial records of the Red Raider Club. Also included are 28 sound recordings, 10 posters and several oversized memorabilia items.
  • U 279.1 Red Raider Club Photographs, 1956-1991: The 1 wallet collection consists of 90 prints documenting various activities of the Red Raider Club, Executive Committee membership, and people who attended sponsored activities. Events pictured include Red Cup Golf Matches (1976-1984); All Sports Banquets and individual photos of TTU athletes; Steer of the Year (1973-1974);and Red Raider Club vehicles. Also included is an embroidered Masked Rider logo on cloth. People pictured include Tom Britton, Jerry Burleson, Gary W. Hanson, Gene Murrell, Arlen Wesley, Alan White, and two drawings of football players Don Gray and Vic Spooner.
  • Red Raider Club recordings, 1975-1981 (see U 414.2 University Recordings, 1937-1987)
  • Red Raider Club, 1963-1966 (See U 147.33 President's Office Records)
  • Red Raider Rampage newsletter, 1979-1993 -- See U 193.3 Athletic Media Relations Scrapbooks. The newsletter was produced by the Red Raider Club.
  • Red Raider Club, 1980 (see U 1.4 Academic Affairs)
  • Red Raider Club, 1981-1984 (see U 2.2 Vice-President for Academic Affairs)
  • Red Raider Club, 1997-2000 (See U 147.44 Office of the President Records)

Sports Information Office
The Sports Information Office traces its origins to the Sports News Office in the early 1950s, and evolved to the present designation in the late 1960s. Sports Information serves in a public relations capacity as a liaison between the media and the athletic department. The Office maintains media records on all Tech athletes, as well as compiles and designs media guides and game programs.

  • U 23.3 Sports Information Records, 1926-1996: This 34 box and 1 oversize collection consists of news releases, game and individual player statistics, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, photographs, and office generated files. Also includes information on bowl games, meets, and tournaments.
  • U 23.4 Sports Information Records, 1996-1998: This 2 box collection contains news releases, a Horizon Campaign pamphlet, the Public Infractions Report, schedule cards with pictures of various Tech athletics on the front side, three scrapbooks, and women's basketball statistics information.
  • U 23.6 Sports Information Ephemera, 1925-2018: This 3 box collection contains Texas Tech University sports memorabilia items such as bumper stickers, schedule cards, ticket stubs, buttons, TTU Hall of Honor inductees, trading cards and the history of the "Guns Up" tradition at Texas Tech.
  • U 23.7 Sports Information Newspapers, 1941-2006 and undated: This 1 box collection consists of various newspapers and magazines featuring Texas Tech sports.
  • U 23.9 Sports Information Records, 1939-1999: This 3 box collection consists of files on the Big 12 Conference, media guides, news releases, radio information, posters, program bids, the Red Raider Club, schedule cards, statistics, and Tech trading cards.
  • U 23.14 Sports Information Records, 1960-1999 and undated: This 1 box collection contains news releases, a brochure on the renovation of Jones Stadium, and old football tickets.
  • U 23.19 Sports Information Records, 1938-2009: This collection of 21 boxes, 2 oversized boxes and 19 oversized items consists of files generated by several Athletic Departments at Texas Tech. The files include materials on the Double T Connection, the Southwest Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (SWAIAW), Title IX, NCAA, Southwest Conference, Jeannine McHaney, Gerald Myers, Polk Robison, and individual sport information.
  • U 23.20 Sports Information Audio Cassette Collection, 1983-1989: This collection consists of 263 audio cassettes from various Texas Tech football games and bowl games.
  • U 23.21 Texas Tech Hall of Honor Collection, undated: This 1 wallet collection contains printouts of biographies of TTU Hall of Honor inductees compiled by the Athletics Department up through 2012. The biographies were originally online.
  • U 23.31 Sports Information Poster Collection, 2007-2008: This 1 box collection contains 18 mounted oversized posters. One poster is of the 2007 Lady Raiders team schedule (autographed); one poster of John Montford and for the 2007 Dave Brown Award; and 16 of Texas Tech Hall of Fame inductees - Carl Ince, Ron Reeves (autographed), Rob Junell (autographed), A. J. "Jake" Boyles (autographed), Jason Sasser (autographed), James Gray (autographed), Don King (autographed), Jill Burness Stowe (autographed), Jerry Johnson (autographed), Jeff Taylor (autographed), Robert Hall, Robert McKinney, Mark Brandenburg, Alicia Thompson, Joe Dillon, and Jim Carlen.

Southwest Conference
The Southwest Conference was formed on May 6, 1914, when representatives from Baylor University, Southwestern University, Texas A&M College, Oklahoma A&M (Oklahoma State), Louisiana State University, University of Texas, and the University of Arkansas met to discuss the future of regional sports among the local schools. Later, other universities came aboard, including Texas Tech, which joined in 1956. The Southwest Conference disbanded in 1996. Texas Tech University went on to join the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, and Baylor University to create the Big Twelve.

Southwest Conference Record Books - the following are small, bound books which include all the teams of the SWC. These books have been catalogued.

  • Southwest Conference Football Records, 1967
  • Southwest Conference Basketball Records, 1966-1972
  • Southwest Conference Football and Basketball Records, 1958-1959, 1960-1961
  • Southwest Conference Football and Basketball Records, 1964-1966
  • Southwest Conference Football and Basketball Records, 1961-1962, 1963-1964
  • Southwest Conference Football and Basketball Records, 1955-1956, 1957-1958
  • Southwest Conference Football Records, 1950-1954
  • Football '73 Southwest Conference Roster and Record Book, 1973

Swimming

  • U 293.1 James A. "Bo" Grimshaw, Jr., Memorabilia, 1958-1961: This 1 box collection consists of newspaper clippings, planning notes for the annual Dolphin Aquatic Water shows and show programs from 1958-1960, a 37th Annual National Collegiate Swimming Championships program from 1960, a Dolphin Fraternity Pledge Paddle which has been signed by all the pledge members on the back (1958), and four color prints of former Tech swim team members of their wives taken from the Fall 2005 Letterman's Club meeting. Oversized items include a Texas Tech Dolphin shirt (dated 1958), an oversized poster, and a memo regarding an upcoming show (1961).
  • U 301.1 James McNally Records, 1950-2005: This 9 box collection consists of administrative files compiled by Texas Tech's first two swim team coaches, Ray Kireilis and James McNally. Included are meet results, swim schedules, recruitment files, correspondence, news clippings, and some photographs.
  • Swim Team, 1954 (see U 147.26 President's Office Records)
  • See also the Women's Athletic Council collection regarding the Women's Swim Team

University Interscholastic League


Volleyball

  • U 339.1 Volleyball Collection, 1996-2014: This 9 box collection contains trophies and various documents pertaining to Texas Tech women's volleyball teams, including scrapbooks of the women's volleyball, golf and tennis teams. The bulk of the collection is volleyball game recordings.
  • U 339.2 Volleyball Collection, 1974-2002: This 2 box collection contains 3 volleyballs, 1 soccer ball and mounted, oversized photographs.
  • U 339.3 Volleyball Collection, 1990-1996: This 2 box collection contains 3 volleyball trophies.
  • U 339.4 Volleyball Collection : This 1 box collection contains 2 mounted photographs and 1 framed photo.
  • U 339.5 Volleyball Collection, 1998-2006: This 2 oversized box collection contains 5 All-Region and All-District certificates (1998-2000) Lori Garber, Lisa Hilgers, Melissa McGehee, and Colleen Smith; and four Heavy plaques for 1) Janelle Jones Student-Athlete of the Year Plaque, 2000-2001 (both left corners are broken), 2) CHAMPS/Life Skills Team of the Year Women’s Volleyball Coach Nancy Todd, 2005-2006, 3) Friends of Texas Tech Volleyball plaque, 1995-2002, and 4) Red Raider Award for Outstanding Contributions to Texas Tech Volleyball plaque, 1995-2002.

Women's Athletic Council
The charge for the Women's Athletic Council was to act as an advisory body that would review and make recommendations to the President's Office on matters pertaining to the Women's Intercollegiate Program at Texas Tech. It consisted of nine appointed members.

  • U 380.1 Women's Athletic Council Records, 1972-1984: This 1 box collection consists of memorandums and meeting minutes of the Women's Athletic Council. It includes the council's charge and handbook, handwritten notes, reports on funding for the men's and women's athletic programs, information on an ad hoc committee considering the merger of the men and women's athletic programs, and the proposal for inclusion of the Softball Sport Club as an intercollegiate athletic sport at Texas Tech (1977).
  • Women's Athletic Council, 1974-1980 (See U 144.19 Planning Office Records)

Women's Athletics

  • U 64.1 Jeannine McHaney Collection, 1958-1995: This 2 box collection consists of printed materials, photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia related to Jeannine McHaney, the first female athletic director at Texas Tech University.
  • S 1591.1 Jeannine McHaney Papers, 1968-1999 and undated: This 7 box collection contains files generated by McHaney while she served as director of the women’s athletics program at Texas Tech University. The files include materials on the Double T Connection, the Southwest Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (SWAIAW), and other miscellaneous files.
  • U 334.1 Margaret Wilson Papers, 1935-2007: This 19 box collection contains her office files, which includes various agendas, event results, handbooks, memorabilia, athletes and coaches files, regional information, activities and conference data on academic and athletic UIL events.
  • See U 23.6 Sports Information for women's athletics newsletters - Red Raider Fan-Fare Newsletter, 1983-1984; Red Raider Links Newsletter, 1993-1994; and Texas Tech Women's Sports News Newsletter, undated.
  • See U 193.3 Athletic Media Relations Scrapbooks for the Red Raider Rampage newsletters, 1979-1993.
  • Women's Athletics, 1970-1978 (see U 184.3 University News and Publications)
  • Women's Athletics, 1973-1982 (See U 144.19 Planning Office Records)
  • Women's Athletics, 1977-1978 (see U 432.1 Recreational Sports Records)
  • Women's Athletics, 1982-1984 (see U 170.1 Lauro F. Cavazos Papers)

II. Photograph Collections

  • Texas Tech Athletics: This digital collection is comprised of photographs of various Texas Tech athletic related persons and events that have been pulled together from various manuscript and photograph collections found in the University Archives.
  • Within the individual player files in the U 193.1 Athletic Media Relations Collection are many player portraits.
  • U 23.3 Sports Information Photograph Collection, 1963-1990: This 4 box collection consists of 1,159 prints; 19,661 negatives; 3,255 slides; 189 contact sheets; and 8 transparencies documenting the people, events and activities of the Texas Tech University Athletics Department.
  • U 23.5 Sports Information Photograph Collection, 1925 and undated: This 1 wallet collection consists of 125 copy negatives made from heavily damaged athletic photographs, 4 contact sheets, and 1 damaged print of the "Matadors First Workout 9/15/25".
  • U 23.6 Sports Information Photograph Collection, 1978-1986: This 1 wallet collection contains 50 prints and 1 contact sheet featuring images related to baseball, football, track, fans at Texas Tech athletic events, and athletic staff selling tickets and handling equipment. People pictured include Angela Aldridge, Ashley Bowman, Jody Bradley, Carlon Branson, Jennifer Buehler, Terry Crandell, Teresa Darby, Jaime Hernandez, Amy Jones, Steve Jones, Angela McGuire, Howie McPherson, Rudy Mediavilla, Doug Sanders, and Eric Walraven.
  • U 23.7 Sports Information Photograph Collection, undated: This 1 wallet collection contains 23 prints of a variety of images related to Jones Stadium and 2 identical prints of a view of Fuller Track and Field facilities. The stadium images include day and night time views, interior views of the infirmary and athlete workout areas, downed light poles, snow removal in the stadium, laying down of the circular track around the outside of the playing field, and fans in the stands.
  • U 23.8 Sports Information Photograph Collection, 1960s-1970s: This 1 wallet collection contains 2 group portraits of the Texas Tech Men's Basketball team and coaches dated 1960s and 1970s.
  • U 23.9 Sports Information Photograph Collection, 1994-1996: This 1 wallet collection contains 56 prints of athletes receiving their diplomas at graduation from Texas Tech President Robert Lawless. The athlets pictured include Charlie Biggers, Deborah Biswell, Baron Brown, Robert Buntyn, Misty Carter, Jason Clemmons, Thomas Cook, Stephen Craig, Christie Davis, Carrie Donova, Michele Echols, George Forkerway, Scott Friggle, Robin Harris, Tim James, Rochelle Kauai (sp?), Diane Kersey, April King, Kip Eric McFarlin, Jerry Mason, Trinidad Mancillas, Tony Miller, Stacey Petrich, William Ritter, Tracy Saul, Kristen Sparks, and Sheryl Swoopes.
  • U 23.10 Sports Information Photograph Collection, undated: This 1 wallet collection contains 7 undated Texas Tech group portraits of the football, baseball, golf, men's swimming, men's track, tennis and swimming teams. The football photograph is missing a small section in the upper center section. The surface of the golf, swimming and baseball photos are heavily cracked.
  • U 23.11 Sports Information Photograph Collection, 1928-1992 and undated: This 1 wallet collection contains of 87 prints, 37 negatives, and 3 slides of athletic images, including men's basketball, women's basketball, football, baseball (reproduced from the La Ventana yearbook), crowds and cheerleaders at football games, and track and field meets. Also contains images of Jones Stadium, homecoming, the Will Rogers Statue, the Intramural Gymnasium, and graduation. The photo of Gerald Myers and the men's basketball team holding up the 1988 Southwest Conference trophy is copyrighted by the Dallas Morning News. People pictured include Bill Alford, Michi Atkins, Bobby Cavazos, Scott Clingman, Carol Dudensing, Rich Kay, Bill Kelly (or Kelley?), Ron Lackey, Steve Lindley, Ed Long, Jeannine McHaney, Eddie McMurtrey, Bam Morris, Bruce Mauldin, James Mayes, Roy Moody, Sonya Myles, (Jim?) Reed, and Karla Schuette. One oversized photograph of two people in monkey suits wearing Texas Tech clothing are pictured with other fans in the stands during an unidentified Texas Tech sporting event.
  • U 23.13 Sports Information Photographs, 1926-1993: This collection consists of three prints - a reproduction portrait of the 1926 baseball team, a group portrait of the 1993 Lady Raiders team with a NCAA championship trophy, and an oversized image of the Red Raiders and cheerleaders on the football field.
  • U 23.14 Sports Information Photograph Collection, 1972-1993 and undated: This 2 wallet collection consists of a mixture of Texas Tech athletic images. It contains of 53 prints, 117 negatives, 8 slides, and 2 contact sheets. Pictured are men's and women's basketball, football, baseball, golf, track and field, and Volleyball. Some of the images are of athletes and coaches from other schools. People pictured include Kim Breitbach, LaVell Edwards, Danny Hardaway, Ron Meyer, Gerald Myers, Steve Perkins, [no first name] Stiles, and Mike Thomas.
  • U 23.15 Sports Information Photographs, 1966-1995 and undated: This collection consists of 141 images housed in 2 wallets. Folder 1 contains images of sporting events such as football action candids (1975-1992 and undated), Track and Field (1978-1979 and undated), swimming and cheerleaders (1990 and undated). Folder 2 contains images of students and staff on the Texas Tech and Health Sciences Center campuses. It includes various campus buildings (1966 and undated), and Citibuses with Texas Tech and Big 12 images. The "Ridin' Into the Big Twelve" Citibus design is circa September 22, 1995.
  • U 23.29 Sports Information Photographs, undated: This 1 oversized box collection consists of 16 oversized matted images of football players elected into the Texas Tech Hall of Fame. A few are identified by their last name on the back of their images: Anderson, E. J. Holub, Howard, Irons, Parks, Tillman, and Tucker.
  • U 110.1 Basketball Photograph Collection, 1925-2001: The collection consists of 75 negatives of men's basketball team group portraits taken from 1925-2001. The images were reproduced from La Ventanas, media guides and game programs. All have been scanned onto a CD-ROM as well.
  • U 193.4 Football Photograph Collection, 1971: This collection consists of action and field shots from the following Texas Tech football games: Texas Tech versus Texas Christian University (143 prints, 7 contact sheets), Texas Tech versus Tucson (167 prints, 4 contact sheets), Texas Tech versus Boston (145 prints, 7 contact sheets), Texas Tech versus Rice (173 prints, 6 contact sheets) and Texas Tech vs SMU (169 prints, 7 contact sheets).
  • U 193.5 Athletic Media Relations Photograph Collection: Five laminated 14x11 oversized professional portraits of Coach Mike Leach and the Red Raiders football team, undated.
  • See U 217.2 Engineering Services Photograph Collection, 1978-1981 and undated: The collection consists of 782 prints, 916 negatives, and 473 slides. It consists largely of images from various Texas Tech football games. Also pictured are the university band, aerial views of Lubbock, views of the Crosbyton Solar Power Project dish in Crosbyton, Texas, and a 1979 Texas Tech Basketball game.
  • Rollin Herald Photograph Collection, 1930s-1980s: The collection contains a large number of prints and negatives from the 1960s-1970s of the freshmen basketball team, the basketball and football teams, and candids of the band performing during various athletic games.
  • See the Heritage Club Photograph Collection which contains numerous early TTU sport images.
  • See La Ventana Negative Collection for sports images from 1962-1983.
  • U 206.2 Lady Raiders Photograph Collection, 1993: The collection of two prints consists of images of the Lady Raiders following their victory at the Western Regionals in 1993. The prints were donated by Stephanie L. Edwards.
  • U 206.3 Lady Raiders Photograph Collection, 1999: The collection of 19 negatives consists of images from the Lady Raiders Reunion group taken while they were touring the United Spirit Arena, which was still under construction.
  • U 526.1 Mike Gustafson Photograph Collection, 1997-2010: The collection of 17 oversized images consists of fifteen 8x12 inch color prints taken by TTU Athletic Staff Photographer Novelle Kennedy. The athletes pictured in action are: Lady Raiders Basketball (undated) – Angie Braziel, Rene Hamebutt, and Alicia Thompson; Baseball (1997 and undated) – Josh Bard, Clint Bryant, Joe Dillon and Keith Ginter; Football (undated) - #34 Montae Reagor. The remaining two oversized color prints are of former TTU football athletes from the DeWitt Weaver era attending a reunion at Jones Stadium on October 15, 2010, sponsored by the Double T Association. One group portrait measures 8.5x18 inches and consists of two photographs layered over one another to make up one panoramic group portrait. The other photograph measures 8.5 x 11 inches and is a group portrait of members of the 1954 Gator Bowl football team.
  • There are also images of TTU players and coaches in the Southwest Conference photograph collection, including images of the Lady Raider's 1993 national championship win.
  • U 184.5 University News and Publications has athletic images
  • U 184.3 University News and Publications has coaching staff files with photos.
  • See the Winston Reeves Studio Collection for early TTU sports images, particularly around the Pete Cawthon era.

III. Scrapbooks and Memorabilia

Scrapbooks

  • U 319.1 A. J. "Jake" Broyles, 1947-1993: This one scrapbook collection consists of news clippings, photographs, certificates, letters and miscellaneous memorabilia dealing with Broyles's time on the Texas Tech Tennis team and Thomas Tinkers Basketball team. Broyles was the first tennis inductee into the TTU Hall of Honor.
  • U 299.1 Gene Carpenter Papers, 1953-1993 [Men's Basketball]
  • U 331.1 Lawrence "Shorty" France Collection, 1925-2008: This 1 wallet collection consists of loose papers and a bound collection of materials on the athletic career of Mr. France that was put together by his family for his induction into the Sulphur Springs High School Hall of Honor in 2008. France played football at Texas Tech from 1930-1931. The collection also includes a letterman's sweater worn by France.
  • S 758.1 Murray D. Nichols Papers, 1931-1932 and undated: This scrapbook deals with the 1931 and 1932 Texas Tech football teams.
  • U 147.42 President's Office: Scrapbook of David Edward Olsen, 1965-1966[Men's Basketball]
  • U 300.1 Jim Reed Papers, 1948-1956 [Men's Basketball]
  • S 1666.1 Polk Robinson Papers, 1956-1961: This scrapbook contains news clippings concerning Texas Tech’s basketball coach Polk Robison, mostly from the year 1961.
  • U 23.20 Polk Robinson Collection, 2007: This 1 wallet collection consists of letters written by former TTU players on former coach Polk Robinson which were presented in a scrapbook to Robinson at the Polk Robinson Reunion on February 23-24, 2007. The items in this collection are photocopies donated by Professor Walter Huffman. Coach Robinson has the originals.
  • U 336.1 Sue Kingsbery Porter Collection, 1971-2006: This 1 box collection covers Porter's time with the Lady Raiders Basketball team. She was one of the first to play on the team. Included are a 5 page history of the team written by Porter, tournament information and schedules, a roster of former early Lady Raiders, a scrapbook that dates from 1971-2006, and photographs [15 prints, 25 negatives, and 23 slides].
  • U328.1 Mike Simpson Scrapbook, 1961-1964 and undated: This scrapbook is filled with Texas Tech pictures, news clippings, autographs on slips of paper and napkins, and old Tech game tickets. Most of the photographs and loose paper autographs are of former Texas Tech athletes. Included signatures are from Donny Anderson, David Parks, E. J. Holub, Harold Hugdins, Dub Malaise, Billy Tapp, Russ Wilkinson, Harold Denney, Bob Measels, Norman Reuther, Jimmy Fullerton, Glen Hallum, coach Gene Gibson, Del Ray Mounts, Rodney Teague, and Texas A&M Olympic Shot Put Star Randy Matson.
  • U 298.1 Ned Underwood Papers, 1954-2004[Men's Basketball]
  • U 280.1 Ransom Walker Papers, 1925-1961[Football, Men's Basketball]
  • S 1500.1 Dwayne Frank West Collection, 1953-1955: This is a scrapbook full of news clippings of West's collegiate football days playing for Texas Technological College in the mid 1950s. It includes clippings of Texas Tech’s trip to the Gator Bowl in 1954.
  • S 1219.1 Floyd Alpheaus Woolridge Papers, 1925-1966: Includes early photos of Texas Technological College and its football team.
  • U 312.1 Greg H. Westmoreland Collection, 1993-1996: This 1 box collection consists of athletic t-shirts - a) Lubbock A-J Extra! "A Slice of Heaven" Lady Raiders win of the NCAA title; b) Southwest Conference 1996 (2 items, 1 is more yellowed); c) Dr. Pepper Southwest Conference Classic; d) Lady Raiders Final Four National Champs; e) Hoopa Dallas SWC Women's Basketball Post-Season Classic XI; f) Road to the NCAA Women's Final Four 1993; g)Celebrating SWC Excellence Southwest Conference Post-Season Tournament 1996; and h) NCAA Women's Final Four Atlanta 1993.
  • O17.5 - Scrapbook of the Red Raiders vs. St. Mary’s Gaels, Cotton Bowl, January 2, 1939 [Includes the Cotton Bowl of 1994]
  • See the oversized list for athletics related materials such as posters and newspapers

Memorabilia

  • Miscellaneous Memorabilia
  • Sport Posters and Oversized Items
  • Gene Barnett Collection, 1939 and undated: This collection contains TTU artifacts and encapsulated news clippings concerning the Cotton Bowl. Included is a small Texas Tech trophy to Barnett for the 1939 Cotton Bowl participation; a dark yellow sweater with the no. 84 on front and back; a red & black football jersey, pants, and shank coverings that were worn like socks during the 1939 football season.
  • Henry Moseley Collection, undated: This collection contains a red long sleeve wool sweater with a Double T on the front. It was worn by Moseley while a football player at Tech in the late 1930s.
  • U 285.1 Pat Thurman Memorabilia, 1949-195 0: This is 1 item collection consists of a cream colored satin baseball jacket with 2 ½” wide red satin stripes down the shoulders to wrist, outlined in black satin piping. The donor was a cheerleader at Texas Technological College from 1949-1950. He wore the jacket during the days he served in that capacity.
  • U 287.1 Pam Fox Memorabilia, 1972: This 1 item collection consists of a white and black knit jacket with piping down left side with a black Double T emblem outlined in white stitching. The donor was a basketball player for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, a precursor to the Lady Raiders team. The jacket was worn by the donor when she played on the team.
  • U 306.2 David Hougland Collection, 1995-1999 and undated: This 2 box collection contains various TTU athletic memorabilia including autographed items [football, baseball and helmet], buttons,stickers, signs, and t-shirts. Three items from his father's collection (Donald Hougland) have been placed in this collection due to size.
  • U 323.1 Pat Marx Collection, 1993 and undated: This three item collection consists of a Lady Raiders t-shirt and button for the 1992-1993 Final Four tournament and an illustrated "character map" of Lubbock that includes business and structures.

IV. Films and Recordings
At last count, the University Archives houses over 10,000 Texas Tech University sports videos/reels recordings.



V. Oral History Interviews with TTU Alumni
There are many other athletic related oral histories housed in the special collections archive, but the ones listed below refer specifically to TTU sports and personalities. The dates in parenthesis indicate to the date(s) of the interview.



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