Coulter was a vaudeville strongman, author, and collector. As his vaudeville days came to a close, he moved into supporting...
Collections
Featured Collections
Terry and Jan Todd Library
Terry Todd began collecting books and magazines in the field of physical culture as a doctoral student at the University of...
Ben Crenshaw and Scotty Sayers Collection
Two-time Masters winner, Ben Crenshaw, a local Austinite, attended UT at the same time as Tom Kite. Like his rival...
Christine Green & Laurence Chalip Library
Chris Green and Laurence Chalip are former faculty members of UT’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Education. They have donated...
Harold Weiss Collection
Harold “Hal” Weiss was one of the greatest private collectors of strength and weightlifting materials in the post-World War II...
Allan Ryan Library Collection
Dr. Allan J. Ryan was a founding member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), served as president of...
Peary & Mabel Rader Collection
For more than fifty years, the Raders published the influential Iron Man magazine from the town of Alliance, Nebraska. They also traveled...
Beulah “Boo” Law Collection
Beulah “Boo” Law (1922-2016) was a student and practitioner of natural hygiene from the early 1980s until her death in...
Robert Goldman Papers
Robert (Bob) Goldman began as an athlete, foremost as a wrestler who had dreams of making it to the Olympic...
Jim Apfelbaum Collection
Writer, broadcaster and historian, Jim Apfelbaum is the first, and as yet only, three-time winner of the annual Southern Texas...
Thomas Shrader Sports Library
From the time he was a young boy, Thomas Shrader loved sports, collegiate and professional. So much so that he...
Jack Berryman Collection
If you want to know how and when sports medicine became a specialty, you need only to read Jack Berryman’s...
Bob Samuels Collection
Bob Samuels (1911- 2000) was a pioneer powerlifting and Olympic-style weightlifting competitor and coach. Born in New York City to...
History of Naturopathy and Alternative Medicine Library
There’s a complex, somewhat dramatic, story to how the Stark Center came to be the home of the extensive health...
Darrell K Royal Collection
It is impossible to discuss University of Texas football with mentioning, at some point, legendary coach, Darrell K Royal. Although...
Stanley Rothwell Collection
Stanley Rothwell was a British physical culturist and educator best known as a writer, fitness model, bodybuilder, boxer, and wrestler....
Tom Kite Scrapbooks
Tom Kite is a professional golfer with 19 wins on the PGA Tour, including the 1992 U.S. Open. Kite, along...
Anna Hiss Collection
Anna Hiss was an instructor of physical education at The University of Texas at Austin from 1918 until her retirement...
James Dunaway Collection
James Dunaway, a sports journalist renowned for his coverage of track and field athletes and events, covered sporting events from...
Jody Conradt Collection
The Jody Conradt Collection documents the career, milestones, and major events in the life of Jody Conradt, the winningest coach...
University of Texas Women’s Basketball and Intercollegiate Athletics Collection
In 1974, as one of the first major universities to move toward compliance with Title IX legislation, the University of...
The University of Texas at Austin Athletics Media Relations Office Collections
The University of Texas Athletics Media Relations office serves as principal media liaison for all University of Texas intercollegiate athletics...
Steve Wennerstrom Papers
Steve Wennerstrom is an expert on the history of women’s bodybuilding. He has served as the International Federation of Bodybuilders...
Harvey Penick and Tinsley Penick Golf Collection
Harvey Penick was an Austin institution, recognized by the golf world as a professional’s professional. Penick served as UT’s first...
Wilmer Allison and Dave Snyder Tennis Collection
The Allison and Snyder Collection documents the coaching careers of University of Texas men’s tennis coaches Wilmer Allison and David...
Mack Brown Collection
Mack Brown served as head coach of the University of Texas Longhorns Football Team from 1998 until 2013. During his...
William H. & Susan S. Bushman Golf Library
The William S. and Susan S. Bushman Golf Collection is the result of Bill Bushman’s lifelong love for the game...
Edmund Hoffman Golf Collection
Edmund Hoffman was a Dallas businessman and philanthropist who loved the game of golf. So much so that he accumulated...
William B. Ward Collection
A Wichita Falls, Texas native, William B. Ward was an avid sports fan and collector of sports memorabilia. Reflected in...
Albert Davis Boxing and Sport Photography Collection
Albert Davis was a theater and sports enthusiast and an avid collector of theater and sports-related memorabilia. At the time...
Jesse Mercer Gehman Collection
Dr. Gehman worked as an editor for Bernarr Macfadden in the 1920s, wrote one of the earliest books warning of...
Sydell Herbst – 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...
David P. Willoughby Collection
Willoughby was a weightlifting historian, artist, and anthropometrist. He authored a number of books, including The Super Athletes; helped form the...
Charles E. Yesalis Papers
Dr. Charles Yesalis has studied the role of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) and other performance enhancing drugs (PED) in sports and...
Pudgy and Les Stockton Collection
Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton played a central role in popularizing physical culture and exercise for women in the mid-Twentieth Century. She...
Bob Hoffman and Alda Ketterman Collection
Robert Collins Hoffman, who was 6′ 3″ by the age of thirteen, developed an early interest in athletics. He initially...
George F. Jowett Collection
Jowett was a strongman, promoter, author, and magazine editor whose career spanned the period 1910-1960. With David Willoughby and Ottley...
Doris Barrilleaux Collection
Known as the “First Lady of Bodybuilding,” Doris Barrilleaux founded the Superior Physique Association (SPA), and had leadership positions with...
The Stark Center has a number of collections waiting to be processed. Visit this page to learn about them.