Scrapbooks, [1905]-1960.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Hollenback, William M. (William Marshall), 1886-1968.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Pennsylvania--Alumni and alumnae.

University of Pennsylvania.

University of Pennsylvania--Football.

University of Pennsylvania--Students.

University of Pennsylvania--Sports.

Penn Provenance:

Transferred from Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics, 1999 (Accession Number 1999:49).

Physical Description:

3 volumes

Place of Publication:

[1905]-1960.

Biography/History:

William Marshall Hollenback was born in 1886 in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and attended Phillipsburg High School prior to matriculating to the University of Pennsylvania in 1904. While at the University of Pennsylvania, Hollenback starred on the varsity football team. Hollenback, who was known as "Big Bill," also served as captain of the undefeated 1908 team, the last Penn squad to be recognized as National Champion. Following his graduation in 1908 with a degree in Dentistry, Hollenback was head football coach at Penn State (1909, 1911-1914), the University of Missouri (1910), Pennsylvania Military College (1915) and Syracuse University (1916). He also served as advisory football coach at the United States Naval Academy and the University of Pennsylvania (1919, 1921). In 1951, he was elected to the National Football Hall of Fame.

Hollenback became president of the Bird Coal Company in 1914 and would later serve as director of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, the Keystone Portland Cement Company and the Coal Operators Casualty Company.

Summary:

Hollenback's three main scrapbooks, which span the dates [1906] to 1960, are the centerpieces of this collection. Newspaper clippings about Hollenback and the University of Pennsylvania football team's exploits from 1906-1908, including later retrospective articles, comprise the bulk of the material in the scrapbooks. Clippings about Hollenback's coaching career and the later careers of friends and former teammates, as well as assorted photographs, are also prominent.

Photographs make up a large portion of the rest of the collection. Included among these is a combined photo album and scrapbook containing a concentration of photographs of Hollenback, teammates, friends and family and correspondence from his football playing and coaching career, 1905-1921. The photo album and scrapbook also contains some correspondence relating to reunion dinners and other newspaper clippings dating from ca. 1920 to 1954.

The remainder of the collection is composed of, among other things, Hollenback's varsity football letters of 1906 and 1908 from the University of Pennsylvania and the title page of a book given to Hollenback by Bill Roper.

Finding Aid/Index:

Finding aid available from repository.

OCLC:

1346384912

Online:

Finding aid