W.L. Carquest was a British World Champion Weight-Lifter at the turn of the 20th Century. He first gained the 8...
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With the assistance of our donors, the Stark Center has committed to making the contents of its unique collections available to the world through a wide range of digitization projects. These include digitized books, magazines, and scrapbooks.
Alan Calvert was an American weightlifter, businessman, magazine publisher, and the author of several books. He was the founder of...
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Professor Anthony Barker was a great Oldtime Strongman in the New York Area in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s....
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Chuck Sipes was born in 1932 and started weightlifting to make a high school football team and ended up being...
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A booklet of boxers, wrestlers, strongmen, weight-lifters, bodybuilders…hundreds of photos, each with name of bodybuilder underneath, but no other text....
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Walt Baptiste was a renowned and much loved San Francisco leader and legend, a patriotic American, a leader and a...
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Beginning with the very first graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin, the game of football has long...
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The Strong Man was a magazine for weight lifting enthusiasts of the era published through the Milo Bar Bell Company...
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Started in 1860 by Dr. Dio Lewis, Lewis’s Gymnastic Monthly and Journal of Physical Culture was originally titled, “Lewis’ New...
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A highlight of the 1920s UT football was the building of Texas Memorial Stadium, completed 1924. It was dedicated at...
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As you flip through the football program you will find an article on the brief history of DKR-Memorial Stadium, pictures...
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Texas Relays is America’s second biggest track and field event after Penn Relays. The Relays are held every March or...
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Take a trip down memory land with Clyde Littlefield by viewing his scrapbooks from his time at Marshall Training School...
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Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture (IGH) was founded in 1990 by Terry and Jan Todd who wanted to...
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Two-time Mr. America, Dave Draper, offers diet, strength, and weightlifting tips for optimal muscle definition. Visit the Strongman Project to...
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Chris Dickerson, 1982 Mr. Olympia, created programs for developing chest muscles, deltoids, back, arms, calves, abdominals, and thighs. Included in...
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Durbin-Delco, Inc., offers an instruction manual to accompany their barbells and dumbells. This is a how-to guide to weightlifting and...
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Martin Dworkin’s how-to guide on weight training regimens with weights. Visit the Strongman Project to view Body Building: How to...
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Enjoy learning more about the game of Tennis and coaching Tennis at the University of Texas at Austin through Gary...
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The Three Bartos, Eddie Barto, Edward Sturm, and Dewey Barto (nee Stewart Steven Swoyer), were an acrobatic hand-balancing act that...
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Dittmar’s Time at UT (1913 – 1917) In 1917, when Gustav Charles Dittmar graduated from UT and entered the First...
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This is a game-by-game account of the historic 1947 season in which the Longhorns won the Southwest Conference led by...
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