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Former University of Texas tennis coach Wilmer Allison, giving a backhand demonstration, from the Wilmer Allison and Dave Snyder Tennis Collection.
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Wilmer Allison and Dave Snyder Collection

The Allison and Snyder Collection documents the coaching careers of University of Texas men’s tennis coaches Wilmer Allison and David Snyder. Wilmer Allison began coaching at UT in 1938 as an assistant to Daniel A. Penick, and became head coach in 1957.  David Snyder was a UT tennis player from 1952-1956 and became head coach...

Three footballs presented to former University of Texas football coach Mack Brown after Texas' wins in games on October 10, 1998 versus Oklahoma 34-3; October 23, 1999 versus Nebraska 24-20; and November 6, 2004 versus Oklahoma State 56-35; from the Mack Brown Collection.
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Mack Brown Collection

Mack Brown served as head coach of the University of Texas Longhorns Football Team from 1998 until 2013. During his career at UT, Brown was named the 2005 NCAA Coach of the Year, the 2008 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year, and coached the Longhorns to a 2005 national championship win. The materials in the...

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Judy Gedney Collection

Judy Gedney, a retired college professor, has been involved in powerlifting as a competitor and administrator since the late 1970s and has won many national and world championships and set many national and world records in the sport.

IronMan physical culture magazines, first founded by publisher Peary Rader, waiting to be processed.
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Sydell Herbst and Christopher Gian-Cursio Collection

Christopher Gian-Cursio was a naturopathic doctor, nutritionist, author, editor, and researcher. The collection reflects Gian-Cursio’s professional career as a practicing Natural Hygienist and his extensive research into the development and pioneers of the health movement in America, especially James Jackson’s “Our Home on the Hillside” Hygienic Institute in Dansville, N.Y. Also included in the collection...

Wrestler and strongman George F. Jowett pressing a barbell overhead with one hand, from the scrapbooks in the George F. Jowett Collection.
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George Jowett Collection

Jowett was a strongman, promoter, author, and magazine editor whose career spanned the period 1910-1960. With David Willoughby and Ottley Coulter, he helped found the ACWLA, and also helped Bob Hoffman start Strength & Health magazine. He later aided Joe Weider during Weider’s early days as a magazine publisher. The contents of the Jowett Collection include scrapbooks,...

Bodybuilder Doris Barrilleaux at the 2011 Opening of the Joe and Betty Weider Museum of Physical Culture; a photograph of Barrilleaux posing and another of her with bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger are two of the four photographs in the background.
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Doris Barrilleaux Collection

Known as the “First Lady of Bodybuilding,” Doris Barrilleaux founded the Superior Physique Association (SPA), and had leadership positions with the International Federation of Bodybuilding (IFBB) and American Federation of Women’s Bodybuilding (AFWB). The part of the collection that has been processed (see finding aid link below) showcases Barrilleaux’s involvement with bodybuilding and the sport’s...