By Finding aid prepared by Lawrence A. Landis.
Title: Oregon State College - New York University Football Game Scrapbooks, 1928
ID: MSS OSCNYUFootball
Primary Creator: Rice, Grantland (1880-1954)
Extent: 1.0 cubic feet. More info below.
Languages of Materials: English [eng]
The 1928 OSC-NYU game represented the first time that Oregon State traveled to the East Coast to play a football team in that area of the United States. The OSC team left Corvallis on November 22, just 5 days after an upset loss to the University of Oregon. Traveling by train, the team stopped in Chicago and worked out at Soldier Field on Monday and Tuesday of the following week. The team arrived in New York City on Wednesday, November 28, one day before the game.
Oregon State, a 3-1 underdog coming into the game, had a 5-3 record; NYU's record was 8-1. Despite the odds and several players ill with the flu, OSC won the Thanksgiving Day game played at Yankee Stadium by a score of 25-13. The victory was the subject of many sportswriters columns' over the next several days. The team's return to Oregon was greeted by crowds at stops along the way, including LaGrande, Pendleton, The Dalles, Portland and Corvallis.
More Extent Information: 1 oversize box
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Physical Access Note: Volume I has embrittled pages. Volume II's front cover is broken into two pieces, and some materials are embrittled and detached from the pages; special handling of this volume is required. The loose clippings are somewhat embrittled but do not require special handling.
Related Materials: Photos of several players from the 1928 team can be found in the Football Photograph Collection (P 004). A game program is located in the OSU Memorabilia Collection (MSS MC) file "MC--Football-Programs, 1908-1929." Accounts of the game are included in the 1929 Beaver and the January 1929 Oregon State Monthly.
Preferred Citation: Oregon State College - New York University Football Game Scrapbooks (OSCYNYU Football), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Rice, Grantland (1880-1954)
Anderson, Arthur Wallace (1914-)
Frayne, Ed
Gallico, Paul (1897-1976)
McGeehan, W. O.
Neil, Edward J.
Treanor, Vincent
Wallace, Frank
New York University--Football.
Oregon State College--Football.
University History
Scrapbooks.
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