UUS_p0740.xml Guide to the Rhys Yeakley USU Athletic collection Yeakley (Rhys) USU Athletic collection Finding aid created by Heather Housley and Dan Davis Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives 2024
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-09-27. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Rhys Yeakley USU Athletic photographs Yeakley, Rhys UUS_P0740 .25 linear feet 1 box 1927-1965 Collection of athlete and game photographs from Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University). English .

This collection features materials related to the Utah Agricultural College (now Utah State University) athletic program, primarily in the area of basketball and football. Includes photos of Wayne Estes, individual football players from the 1920s-1940s, Smith Twins football coaches, 1961 Gotham Bowl with Baylor, basketball games against Kansas and Manhattan, images of coaches E.L. "Dick" Romney and John O. Roning. Also includes the event program from the dedication ceremony of the UAC stadium in 1927. Many of the photographs appear to have been used as part of press releases or news articles.

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Permission to publish material from the Rhys Yeakley USU Athletic collection must be obtained from the Photograph curator and/or the Special Collections Section Head.

Initial Citation:Rhys Yeakley USU Athletic photographs USU_P0740. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_P0740, USUSCA.

These materials were donated to Special Collections by Rhys Yeakley in 2022.

 USU--Athletics (Intercollegiate) Sports and Recreation College athletes AP wirephoto to accompany Wayne Estes death notice 1 1965 1 1 USU Coach LaDell Andersen accepting AP All-American award on behalf of Estes 2 1965 1 1 All-American Wayne Estes, Utah State University 3 1965 1 1 Action shot of Estes dunking basketball 4 undated 1 1 Utah State University 1964-All-America candidate - forward Wayne Estes 5 1964 1 1 AP Press photo: Football in Times Square 1 1961 1 2

Gotham Bowl Queen Penny Rae Hafen of Santa Clara, UT carries football between players of Utah State and Baylor University

 AP Press photo: Weighed Down with a Problem 2 1961 1 2

Staged action shot of Bob Cummings trying to evade being tackled by Clyde Brock, Clark Miller, and Merlin Olsen

 AP Press photo: Utah State Works Out 3 1961 1 2

Action shot of USU football team during calisthenics drill, with Merlin Olsen trying to catch the ball in the foreground

 Coach E.L. "Smilin Dick" Romney 1 1934 1 3

Photo credit: Jimmy Hodgson, Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah

 E.L. "Dick" Romney, Coach, Utah State 2 undated 1 3

Photo credit: Degn and Brunson, Photographers, Logan Utah

 E.L. Dick Romney, Utah State U 3 undated 1 3 E.L. "Dick" Romney, Head Football Coach, Director of Athletics, Utah State Agricultural College since 1918. 4 undated 1 3 John Roning 5 undated 1 3 John Roning, Coach and Director of Athletics 6 undated 1 3 John Roning 7 undated 1 3 UP Press photo: Booster Shot 1 1952 1 4

Action shot of Bob Harbertson (Utah State) and Tom Hunt (Manhattan) at Madison Square Garden

 Utah State starting line up: Kent Ryan, Ed Wade, Eldro Reeve, Berkeley Parkinson, and Elmo Garff 2 undated 1 4

Action shot of all five players reaching for the ball

 Line (ACME) photo: Utah State to Play in Olympic Eliminations 3 1936 1 4

Scrimmage under the basket with Utah players Petty, Watson and University of Kansas players Rogers, Pratte, and Noble

 Utah State University guard and team captain, Frank Polak 4 1957 1 4 Twin ends Utah Aggies 1 1929 1 5

Smith twins Elmo and Ivan

 Acme photos: These Smith Brothers are Twin Coaches 2,3 1933 1 5

Caption reads "Meet the Smith Brothers - said to be the only twin football coaches handling one football team. Ivan (left) and Elmo Smith played ends at the Utah State Agricultural College, and now they are freshman coaches at the same institution."

 Utah State halfback Overton Curtis 1 undated 1 6 Utah State Ollma(?) Irving, right tackle 2 1940 1 6

Photo credit: Degn and Brunson Photographers, Logan Utah

 Dan Gillespie - fullback. 1930 co-captain, two year letterman 3 1930 1 6 Kent Ryan, Half Back 4 1935 1 6

Caption reads "Having lost but one game last year, Coach E.L. Romney's Utah State University team is again depending on the triple-thread wizardy of Kent Ryan to pace the squad in the drive for a Rocky Mountain conference championship this year. His dazzling punts, accurate aerial shots and deceptive running have earned for him the 'terror' title in the circuit."

 Utah State Aquilla Allen, L.E. 5 1940 1 6

Photo credit: Degn and Brunson Photographers, Logan Utah

 Floyd Rasmussen - halfback, Utah State 6 1934 1 6 Clive Remund - halfback, co-captain, two year letterman 7 1930 1 6 Utah State Fred Allen, l. half 8 1940 1 6

Photo credit: Degn and Brunson Photographers, Logan Utah

 Four unidentified men wearing "Property of Utah State Ath. Dept." shirts, likely baseball players 1 undated 1 7 Event program for the dedication of the UAC Stadium 1 1927 November 5 1 8