College sports

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt relates to his son Theodore Roosevelt a humorous comment that Quentin made at breakfast. He praises Ted’s football performance so far in the season, but says that he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are glad that he will be done after next Saturday. He reminds Ted to write him about how he wants the moose horns, so that he can tell Alexander Lambert.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Sydney B. Jacobs

President Roosevelt tells Sydney B. Jacobs that he would like to see a variety of different games and sports played at a collegiate level, including football and rugby.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Orville G. Frantz

President Roosevelt congratulates “the eleven” and feels they have had a positive impact on Harvard.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-02

Letter from Edgar Pomeroy to Benjamin Ide Wheeler

Edgar Pomeroy of the Barbarian Club discusses rugby football in California. The Club has arranged exhibitions of the sport to promote its adoption by universities and is willing to come to the University of California. If so, Pomeroy requests a monetary guarantee to cover travel expenses.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-18

Letter from David Starr Jordan to Charles Richard Van Hise

President of Stanford University Jordan shares the advantages of solving the football problem by returning to rugby with President of the University of Wisconsin Van Hise. He argues such changes make the game less dangerous and more interesting, although two more alterations in gameplay are necessary. Jordan further discusses the game.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-03

Letter from Alexander Lambert to Theodore Roosevelt

Alexander Lambert informs President Roosevelt that he has accepted an invitation from Surgeon General Robert M. O’Reilly to serve on a board to evaluate whether inoculations against typhoid should be given to soldiers in the army. Lambert asks if he might be able to stay with Roosevelt while he is in town. He additionally congratulates Roosevelt on the recent victory of Harvard’s football team over Yale, and mentions a pair of books that he thinks that Roosevelt may be interested in reading. Lambert recently saw Robert Harry Munroe Ferguson, and comments on his health.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-01

Letter from Charles William Eliot to Theodore Roosevelt

Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard College, replies to President Roosevelt regarding several matters. The telegrams that Roosevelt sent him are correct, and Eliot regrets their publication, as it is the policy of Harvard College not to say anything about students being punished. Eliot discusses the punishment of Charles C. Morgan and Sidney W. Fish, as well as the events that brought about the necessity of punishing them. While Roosevelt thinks that their punishment–suspension from the Harvard crew team–was unjust, Eliot thinks it was deserved.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-14

Letter from John White Hallowell to Theodore Roosevelt

John White Hallowell is now unable to visit President Roosevelt to play tennis, as he has to have his tonsils out. He sends his regrets and tells Roosevelt that a group of people in Cambridge are attempting to counteract the efforts at Harvard to eliminate intercollegiate athletics, especially football.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-06

Harvard break with Yale

An article in the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine calls for a break in athletic competition between Harvard and Yale, asserting that Yale focuses too much on athletics and not enough on academics.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-28

Harvard crew to row Cambridge in England

Arrangements for a crew competition between Harvard and Cambridge University have nearly been finalized. Frank L. Higginson and R. C. Lehmann have had the duties of representing Harvard’s interests in England, as both have previously been associated with the university. The race will be run purely for fun and for the sport of it, and will not be for any sort of international collegiate championship.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Campbell Greenway

Ted Roosevelt will be unable to visit as he has already accepted an invitation to visit some college friends in Colorado. Everything is “much as usual” at college and Roosevelt recounts some recent sporting events. After college, he hopes to work for a railroad in the West.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1906-1907

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Campbell Greenway

Ted Roosevelt would like to come visit John Campbell Greenway in the autumn after spending the summer with his family. He has been considering positions and wants to find work that really interests him. President Roosevelt is very busy with legislation and the upcoming convention. College football practice has started and Ted wants “one more chance at the old game.”

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1908

The day he made the ‘varsity eleven

E. B. Bloss describes an underclassman’s successful football tryout at Harvard.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11

Rah! Rah! Rah! Harvard vs Yale

Photographs of the 1901 football game between Harvard and Yale. Three of the photographs are wide shots of the field and crowd. The fourth photograph was taken near the goal line as Harvard scored a touchdown.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-23

Letter from Walter S. Cush to Theodore Roosevelt

Walter S. Cush has met with the professor and the letter will be sent as soon as possible. He congratulates President Roosevelt on Harvard University’s victory at the game last Saturday.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-25

Telegram from G. W. Milmore to Theodore Roosevelt

G. W. Milmore updates President Roosevelt on the progress of the football game between Harvard and Yale.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-23

Letter from Arthur W. Talmadge to Theodore Roosevelt

Arthur W. Talmadge, manager for the Harvard University Football Association, offers President Roosevelt sideline badges for the Harvard-Yale football game which will take place on November 23. Seats in the grand stand could also be made available.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-13

Letter from Evert Jansen Wendell to Theodore Roosevelt

Evert Jansen Wendell accepts Vice President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch at Oyster Bay, New York, on September 27. He asks Roosevelt to preside at a dinner for an English athletic team being held by Harvard and Yale. Wendell congratulates Roosevelt on the news of President McKinley’s recovery from an attempted assassination.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-10

Letter from Evert Jansen Wendell to Theodore Roosevelt

Evert Jansen Wendell accepts Vice President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch at Oyster Bay, New York, on September 27. He asks Roosevelt to preside at a dinner for an English athletic team being held by Harvard and Yale. Wendell congratulates Roosevelt on the news of President McKinley’s recovery from an attempted assassination.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-10