Harry "Hack" Applequist attended State College of Washington and received a degree in geology in 1916. He played tackle on the undefeated 1915 football team which went to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on January 1, 1916 and defeated Brown University. He also played on the baseball team.
He followed the profession of geology for a time, but was offered a job on the WSC coaching staff by Athletic Director J. Fred Bohler and became assistant football coach and head baseball coach from 1923-1926. In 1923 he married Mildred Perry, also a WSU graduate. Again leaving WSU, he accepted a coaching position in Sacramento, California, and eventually became coordinator of the Sacramento City Unified School District's entire physical education program, a position he retained until he retired in 1956.
Hack Applequist died November, 1976 in Sacramento at the age of 86.
This collection consists of mementos of the 1916 Rose Bowl collected by Harry A. Applequist, a member of the Washington State College football team playing in the game. The collection includes play-by-play telegrams of the game (Series 1); and newspapers clippings of Applequist's athletic career as well as correspondence and a program from the 50th anniversary reunion of members of the two 1916 Rose Bowl teams organized in 1966 by the Rose Bowl committee in Pasadena, California (Series 2).
This collection is arranged in two series.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
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Harry A. Applequist Papers. 1916-1966 (Cage 393)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The Harry Applequist papers were donated to the Washington State University in 1978 by Mrs. Harry Applequist of Sacramento, California. It was received by the library in August, 1978. Photographs were seperated and processed seperately.
The photopgraphs that were donated at the same time were seperated and processed as the
Harry A. "Hack" Applequist Photographs, 1906-1966
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