After thinking for quite a while (honestly not that long) I decided that I would take the typical athlete route for this project and ask a question revolved around sports.
My Question
What were Santa Clara athletics like for the athletes as well as the fans? What kind of experience was it and how did school spirit evolve over the years? What sports were added and what were lost and why?
What I Might Find
While this question may be fairly broad and the basic “softball question” an athlete might ask, I am curious to see what the archives can present. I’m hoping to find ticket stubs, programs, team pictures, fan pictures, news articles, and maybe even biographies that revolve around Santa Clara Athletics. I’m very interested in the story of the football program and learning how it went from winning an Orange Bowl to ceasing to exist. The story of the baseball program also interests me (yes I play baseball, sorry to bring it up again) given that the team transformed from a 1962 College World Series Runner-Up, to an alleged “fraternity that played baseball,” to what it is today.
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Readings
I did enjoy the Tirabassi and Gaillet readings as much as one can possibly enjoy reading about archives. I had no idea what archives were before these readings. They taught me the basics of archive research and how I should handle my research when doing this project. They were very informative and I will definitely be referencing them quite a bit if I find myself lost at the archives.