Sports Information and Athletic Communications records, 1925-2007

Finding Aid

Prepared for the Web by BethAnne Shaup and Mikhail Slobodinskii, 1999-2001; Updated January 2008
368 boxes; 197 cubic feet; 11th floor


Scope and Content

This collection contains records generated by the office of Sports Information (now named Athletic Communications) at Kent State University. Included are sports films, media guides and programs, files on individual athletes and former Intercollegiate Athletics personnel, and team files for each sport. There is also a collection of sports memorabilia (artifacts).

Materials in this collection have been divided into three major divisions which are listed below. Records date from 1925 through the present, with the bulk of the files dating from 1970-1991. Files will be added to the collection on an ongoing basis.


Description of Series

I: Sports Films


II: Sports Media Guides/Programs, 1925-2007 (6 record storage boxes)


III: Athletes, Former Personnel, and Files by Sport


IV: Sports Artifacts