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University of Washington 1908 football and men and women's crew team photographs, 1908
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- University of Washington 1908 football and men and women's crew team photographs
- Dates
- 1908 (inclusive)19001920
- Quantity
- 69 photographs (1 folder)
- Collection Number
- PH1561
- Summary
- Photographs of the University of Washington 1908 football team members, men and women's crew team members, and crew races
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials curator required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
Historical BackgroundReturn to Top
The University of Washington is known, in addition to its prestige as a research institution, for its top-tier athletic teams. Many of these teams can boast pedigrees going back well over a century, and have become integral to life on campus and alumni engagement. The football team played its first season in 1889, the same year that much of Seattle was destroyed by a fire. A decade later, in 1899, University of Washington students began working with local donors to develop a rowing crew program for the school, work that would come to fruition in 1903 with the first intercollegiate rowing race on the West Coast, in which the University of Washington bested the University of California.
In the same year that the men’s crew team enjoyed their inaugural victory, UW women were taking to Lake Washington informally to pursue the sport on their own. Over the next few years, this “women’s rowing club” would steadily gain prominence and acclaim on campus, ultimately finding a patron and advocate in Hiram Conibear, the athletic trainer for the football and track teams and coach of the men’s crew team. On October 22nd, 1907, women’s rowing made the leap from hobbyist clique to a university-sanctioned athletics team. The women’s crew team competed for a decade until the death of Conibear and the appropriation of campus aquatic facilities by the Navy during World War One forced the team to disband. Although several efforts were made to revive the women’s crew team over the subsequent decades, women would not compete again in rowing at the University of Washington until 1969.
For their part, the 1908 University of Washington football team enjoyed a successful season, going undefeated in seven games under the guidance of a new coach, Gil Dobie. The closest the team came to a loss that particular season was a tie-game, six to six, against Washington State University in the annual rivalry match that has come to be known as the Apple Cup.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Photographs of the University of Washington 1908 football team members, men and women's crew team members, and crew races.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
View the digital version of the collection
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections at University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Football players, 1908Return to Top
Football practice, 1908Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Folder | item | ||
1 | 10 | 1908 | |
1 | 11 | 1908 | |
1 | 12 | 1908 | |
1 | 13 | 1908 |
Men and Women of Rowing, 1908Return to Top
Due to the biases present in college athletics, in 1908 as in the present day, the women's crew team was afforded less attention in the University of Washington Tyee yearbooks than their male counterparts. As such, it is difficult to identify the women in these photographs with any great degree of certainty. Records do exist of the women's crew team roster from 1908, however, which is composed of Irene Patton, Josephine Bulkeley, Florence Curtis, Ada Etsell, Ethel Latham, Margaret Whittle, Edna Ficks, Nell Iffland, and Enid Will from the Class of 1910 and Sabra Godfrey, Anne Hammond, Zoe Kearns, Vera Sturgis, Mabel Furry, Louise Henkins, Gertrude Mallette, Dorothy Drake, and Mary Alvord from the class of 1911. The women shown are most likely drawn from among that group.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Folder | item | ||
1 | 14-15 | 1908 | |
1 | 16-17 | 1908 | |
1 | 18 | 1908 | |
1 | 19 | 1908 | |
1 | 20 | 1908 | |
1 | 21 | 1908 | |
1 | 22 | 1908 |
Boat racing, 1908Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Folder | item | ||
1 | 23 | 1908 | |
1 | 24-25 | 1908 | |
1 | 26-27 | 1908 | |
1 | 28 | 1908 | |
1 | 29 | 1908 | |
1 | 30 | 1908 | |
1 | 31 | 1908 | |
1 | 32-49 | 1908 | |
1 | 50-54 | 1908 | |
1 | 55 | 1908 | |
1 | 56 | 1908 | |
1 | 57-58 | 1908 | |
1 | 59-64 | 1908 | |
1 | 65 | 1908 | |
1 | 66-69 | 1908 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Football--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Rowing--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
- Women athletes--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
Corporate Names
- University of Washington--Sports--Photographs
- University of Washington. Department of Intercollegiate Athletics--Archives
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- Webster & Stevens (photographer)