Strength, first published in 1914, was the channel needed by Alan Calvert to get the public to start using weights....
Digital Library
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 and magazines, online exhibits, and curated projects built by graduate researchers.
H.J. Lutcher Stark Football Letters
One of the many reasons that we are pleased to have the on-going support of the Nelda C. and H.J....
Ottley Coulter Collection – K.V. Iyer “Training through Correspondence”
As a devoted weightlifter and physical culturalist, Coulter sought out and collected training guides produced by many of the world’s...
Ottley Coulter / George Jowett Correspondence
Ottley Coulter and George Jowett shared a life-long passion for weightlifting, believing it was not only a means to improve...
Professor Attila’s Scrapbook
The digitization of the pages in Attila’s scrapbook was made possible by a grant from the Utopia Project, an outreach...
George Hackenschmidt Scrapbook
We are happy to make available the digitized version of one of our most important documents—the 600-page scrapbook owned for...
Gustave “Pig” Dittmar Scrapbook
In 1917, when Gustav Charles Dittmar graduated from UT and entered the First Officer’s Training Camp in San Antonio, he...
Commemorative 1914 UT Longhorns Publication
Publication from 1915 celebrating the 1914 UT football season. The game-by-game feats and their measures are chronicled within its pages....
Comment on Devient Athlete (How One Become an Athlete) & Les Rois de la Lutte (The Kings of Wrestling) by Edmond Desbonnet
Even rarer than Les Rois de la Force, however, is Desbonnet’s Les Rois de La Lutte (The Kings of Wrestling)...
Les Rois de la Force (The Kings of Strength) by Edmond Desbonnet
Les Rois de la Force (The Kings of Strength), written by French physical culturist and magazine publisher Edmond Desbonnet, is...
Physical Culture
Launched in March 1899, Physical Culture, published by Bernarr Macfadden, contained dietary advice, weight training information, and an incredible collection...
Your Physique, Vol. 1, No. 1
Your Physique was a very influential magazine throughout its publication.
Texas vs Oklahoma 1910 Football Program
No Bevo, no “burnt orange,” and no “Hook ‘em.” No email, no cell phones, no 747s. The NCAA was barely...
Boxing Photos from the Albert Davis Sport and Photography Collection
This exhibit showcases thirty-six different boxers in over one hundred photos from the Albert Davis photo collection.
Longhorn Power: An On-Line Exhibition on Strength Training for UT Sports
Headed by Assistant Athletic Director for Strength and Conditioning Jeff Madden the University of Texas employed 12 full-time strength and...
An Evolution: Texas Women’s Basketball
Over the last four decades, The University of Texas at Austin Women’s Basketball program has taken on the reputation as...
Running chapter from “Training for Athletics” by W.G. George
We are pleased to make available a related chapter on running training by Mr. George published in Training for Athletics. Researchers...
The 100-UP Exercise by W.G. George
A recent article in the New York Times Magazine has spurred renewed interest in W. C. George’s book The 100-Up Exercise. Because Mr....
1968 U.S. Olympic Team Oral History Project
In September 2010, Tom Lough, an Olympian who competed on the 1968 U.S. Olympic Team in modern pentathlon, approached the...
Clyde Littlefield: The Life of a Texas Legend
“Patience becomes few Texans. Nor do they wear modesty well…Though Texas-born, Texas reared, this mild mannered gentlemen has built up...