With the new year approaching, it’s time to mark your calendars for the 2023 Physical Cultures of the Body Conference (PCBC) on Friday, January 13th. This will be the third iteration of this international conference, and it is free and open to all on Zoom. PCBC is jointly sponsored by the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center...
On Thanksgiving Day, I received the very sad news that Jim Lorimer had passed away. He was 96 years old, and a dear friend. It was because of Jim that Terry Todd and I got involved with the running of The Arnold Strongman Classic back in 2002 and we kept running the contest in large...
Scrapbook containing mostly photographs documenting the life and athletic accomplishments of George Jowett, beginning with physique photographs at age 15 and including physique photos, studio portraits, wrestling action shots, weightlifting and strength feat demonstration photographs, and with competitors at various competitions; ends with photographs of Jowett speaking at a ceremony honoring him at age 79....
Scrapbook compiled by Anthony Barker containing variety of strength-related and biographical material. Professor Anthony Barker scrapbook is available on the Strongman Project website.
Scrapbook #12 This scrapbook features photographs of family members, birth and death certificates, tickets, photographs of family members, strongmen, and Steinborn himself. Steinborn’s scrapbook is available on Strongman Project. Scrapbook #20 This scrapbook was assembled by Milo Steinborn himself. The pages of this scrapbook contain photos, newspaper articles, and postcards of wrestlers documenting the strongmen,...
Health and Life magazine was published in June 1922 as a “national monthly magazine for health, physical education and right living.” Published by Health and Life Publishing Company of Chicago, Illinois with editor-in-chief Bernard Bernard, the magazine included a regular section on the American Continental Weightlifters’ Association. By 1926 (Volume 5, No. 2), the magazine changed...
Ottley Coulter created several scrapbooks documenting various Strongmen and Strongwomen’s lives and careers through clippings and other materials. The strongmen and strongwomen documented in Ottley Coulter’s scrapbooks include Apollon, Louis Cyr, Katie Sandwina, Arthur Saxon and the Saxon Trio, Wilhelm Turk, Josef Steinbach, Hector Decarie, Henry Holtgrewe, F. B. Franks, Deriaz brothers, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Tony...
As many of you may remember, the winter storm in February 2021 caused an immense amount of damage here on The Forty Acres, our colloquial name for the University of Texas campus. The Stark Center, specifically, was a victim of flooding due to burst pipes on the floor above us in the North End Zone...
Things find their way to the Stark Center in many different ways. Some items are donated by organizations that reach out to us, as Sports Illustrated did when they were looking for a home for their Olympic archives. Others are donated by individuals such as Irish legend Jack Shanks, who recently sent us the lifting...
