On the first page of the "Red Book" he would maintain as the record of athletic teams at UM, Jiggs Dahlberg wrote: "Two years after the University of Montana opened its doors to students the first football team was organized. Approximately 75 students were enrolled in the fall of 1897. Professor Fred D. Smith, Chemistry professor and former football player at Cornell University volunteered to coach the football team. 24 men turned out."
The University of Montana's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics’ Athletic Team Record, also known as the “Red Book,” was created and maintained by coach George P. “Jiggs” Dahlberg. The book provides in-depth information about the University of Montana’s (UM) intercollegiate athletes (all men) between 1897 and 1980. Dahlberg drew information from the Missoulian local newspaper, the Kaimin student newspaper and other sources for seasons prior to his arrival at UM in 1937, and on his own knowledge from 1937 to 1980. He documented the coaches (including student assistants), the players and their statistics (including height, weight, home town, and records), team schedules and stats, and season summaries for football, basketball, golf, swimming, tennis, wrestling and track and field. He commented on athletic policies; noted who won conference awards; who set individual, game and team records; and recorded other “interesting information” (such as that UM received $25,000 for football bleachers in 1937-1938.)
The book has blank pages between 963 and 1407, at which point Dahlberg includes information about “special honors” such as UM students who went on to be professional basketball and football players, information about named awards and who won them, and a section for Jack Daniels, the first UM student to represent the United States in the Olympic Games (1956 and 1960 Pentathlon Games.)
This is a single volume item with an index in the front.
All pages with text were scanned and are freely available online: http://scholarworks.umt.edu/redbook_asc/
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University of Montana Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Athletic Team Record "Red Book," circa 1937-1980. Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
This volume was maintained in the Intercollegiate Athletics office until its transfer to the University of Montana Archives in 2015.
The volume was transferred to Archives and Special Collections in 2015 by Dave Guffey.
This is a single bound volume maintained in its original form.
The University of Montana's Archives and Special Collections holds a number of items and collections documenting intercollegiate athletics at the University of Montana including the student newspaper, student yearbooks and the records of the Office of the President.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.