Since shortly after its 1890 founding, Washington State University participated in intercollegiate football. Filming of those competitions began in the 1920s and continues today. The collection consists of footage from WSU football games. Much of this film was unlabeled and thus identifications here are frequently partially incomplete. A number indicate footage spliced together perhaps from different games.
Since shortly after its 1890 founding, Washington State University participated in intercollegiate football. Filming of those competitions began in the 1920s and continues today. The collection consists of 16mm films from WSU football games; unlike earlier collections, much of this film was unlabeled and thus identifications here are frequently partially incomplete.
Attorney Robert "Bob" Burks, Washington State College class of 1954, a lifetime Washington State Cougar football fan, began collecting clippings and photos as a child, compiling scrapbooks of them. The collection consists of 10 scrapbooks containing newspaper and magazine clippings of both articles and photographs, as well as clippings from programs and other promotional material.
