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.
The collection consists of 57 total photographs, mostly the State College of Washington (later Washington State University) athletic photographs from 1912-1916. These photos are mostly regarding football and include the 1916 Rose Bowl game. A few of the photographs are of the WSC baseball and track teams.
Also included are photographs of the 1966 Rose Bowl reunion, a 1906 photo of Hack Applequist as a wrestler and two photographs of a pit mine in Butte, Montana, circa 1920.
The entirety of this collection was digitally scanned and described in 2009 by Susan
Mayer, under the supervision of University Archivist Mark O'English. All of the
images from this collection have been digitized and can be found online in the:
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
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Harry A. "Hack" Applequist Photographs, 1906-1966 (PC 33)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The Harry Applequist photograph collection was donated to the Washington State University in 1978 by Mrs. Harry Applequist of Sacramento, California. It was received by the library in August, 1978. Clippings, play-by-play telegrams, and other mementos (MS 78-53) were seperated and processed seperately.
This collection was processed by David Smestad in November, 1978.
Clippings, play-by-play telegrams, and other mementos were seperated and collected in the Harry A. Applequist Papers 1916-1966
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