Welcome to the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports.

The Stark Center is a research center housed within the Department of Kinesiology & Health Education.  We are a unique combination of library, archive, and gallery/exhibit space.

It's a Good LifeBy
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An Unexpected Pleasure: Kissing the Ground in Equilibrium—A Search for the Origins of the Pushup

One of the things I enjoy most about the Stark Center are the requests we often get for information about some aspect of the history of physical culture. Most of those requests are handled by our incredible Stark Center staff but every now and then a request will make its way to my inbox and I find myself so intrigued that I end up doing research that wasn’t planned because the question made me curious too. This past Sunday was one of those days. I got an unexpected email from Denis Blinov, whom I’ve never met. “May I ask if you...

The SEC Celebration and New Exhibits
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The SEC Celebration and New Exhibits

As many Longhorn sports fans are now very well aware, the University of Texas Athletics was officially welcomed into the Southeast Conference on Sunday, June 30th, beginning a new era of Longhorn sports history. To commemorate the occasion, the President’s office and Texas Athletics partnered up to host a campus-wide event that Sunday, opening all on-campus parking as free to the public and providing an afternoon and evening full of activities, experiences, concerts, fireworks, and, of course, a lighting of the famous UT Tower with the letters S-E-C spelled down the windows. The event was officially branded SEC Celebration and...

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The Stark Center features collections from around the world related to all aspects of physical culture and sports.

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