Descriptive Summary
Texas Tech University
Sports Information
Records,
1996-1998
Records of the Sports
Information Office, which serves in a public relations capacity as a liaison
between the media and the athletic department.
U 23.4
Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University
2 boxes (2.0 linear
feet)
English.
Biographical Sketch
The Sports Information Office traces its origins to the Sports News
Office in the early 1950s, and evolved to the present designation in the late
1960s. Sports Information serves in a public relations capacity as a liaison
between the media and the athletic department. The Office maintains media
records on all Tech athletes, as well as compiles and designs media guides and
game programs.
Scope and Contents
The collection contains news releases, a Horizon Campaign pamphlet,
the Public Infractions Report, schedule cards with pictures of various Tech
athletics on the front side, three scrapbooks, and women's basketball
statistics information.
The pictures were transferred to Photographs; the game programs to the
Athletics (Game Programs) collection the media guides to Athletics (Media
Guides) collection; the videos, cassettes and CDs to Audio/Visual; and the
oversized volleyball poster to Oversized Athletics Posters Collection.
Organization
The collection is organized by file name in alphabetical order.
Index Terms
The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
developed.
Subjects (Organizations)
Southwest Conference
(U.S.)
Texas Tech
University--Sports
Texas Tech
University--Sports--History
Texas Tech
University--Sports--Statistics
Texas Tech
University--Basketball--History
Texas Tech
University--Baseball--History
Texas Tech
University--Football--History
Texas Tech
University--Golf--History
Texas Tech
University--Swimming--History
Texas Tech
University--Tennis--History
Texas Tech
University--Track and field--History
Texas Tech
University--Volleyball--History
Texas Tech University.
Sports Information Office--Records and correspondence
Subjects
College
athletes--Texas--Lubbock--Statistics
College
athletes--Texas--Lubbock--History
College sports
College
sports--Records--Texas--Lubbock
College
sports--Texas--Lubbock--Statistics
Football--Texas--History
Sports--Texas--Lubbock--History
Women
athletes--Texas--Lubbock--History
Acquisition
Gifts, 1997-1999
Access Restrictions
Open for research
Processed by
Lynn Whitfield, December 1999
Preferred Citation
Sports Information Records, 1996-1998 and undated, Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
Texas
Additional Sources
Pollard, Norval.
Red Raiders: Stories, Stats, and Stuff about
Texas Tech sports. Wichita, Kan.: Wichita Eagle and Beacon Pub.,
1996.
Dodd, Dennis.
Big 12 Handbook: Stories, Stats, and Stuff
about the Nation's Best Football Conference, Big 12 Conference.
Wichita, Kan.: Wichita Eagle and Beacon Pub. Co., 1996.
Ratliff, Harold V.
The power and the Glory: the Story of
Southwest Conference Football. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press,
1957.
Tips, Kern.
Football, Texas style: An Illustrated History
of the Southwest Conference. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday,
1964.
West, Dirk.
SWC cartoon book: Over 25 years of Cartoon
History of Red Raider and SWC football, Plus a Nostalgic Look at Life in
Raiderland. Lubbock, Tex.: D. West, 1995.
For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
- Athletic Media Relations, Records and Photographs, 1928-1999
and undated
- Athletics (Game Programs), 1925-present
- Athletics (Media Guides), 1942-present
- Kelly Cawthon oral history interview [sound recording],
1975
- Pete Cawthon Jr. oral history interview [sound recording],
1970s
- Morley Jennings oral history interview [sound recording],
1972
- John T. King oral history interview [sound recording],
1960s
- Mrs. George Langford oral history interview [sound recording],
1973
- National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Collection,
1939-1997
- Sports Information, Records, 1926-1996
- Sports Information, Records, 1960-1999 and undated
Collection Inventory
Manuscripts
1
1
Horizon Campaign,
1998
News Releases
1
2
News Releases,
January 1996
1
3
News Releases,
February 1996
1
4
News Releases,
March 1996
1
5
News Releases,
March 1996
1
6
News Releases,
April 1996
1
7
News Releases,
May-July 1996
1
8
News Releases,
August 1996
1
9
News Releases,
September 1996
1
10
News Releases,
October 1996
1
11
News Releases,
November 1996
1
12
News Releases,
December 1996
1
13
News Releases,
January 1997
1
14
News Releases,
February 1997
2
1
News Releases,
March 1997
2
2
News Releases,
April 1997
2
3
News Releases,
May 1997
2
4
News Releases,
June-August 1997
2
5
News Releases,
September 1997
2
6
News Releases,
October 1997
2
7
News Releases,
November 1997
2
8
News Releases,
December 1997
2
9
Public Infractions Report,
1998
2
10
Schedule Cards,
1998
2
11
Scrapbook: Women's Athletics,
1984-1985 and undated
2
12
Scrapbook: Women's Basketball and Swimming,
1970s-1980s and undated
2
13
Scrapbook: Women's Track and Tennis,
undated
2
14
Statistics: Women's Basketball,
March 1998
2
15
Women's Basketball Statistical Sheet,
undated