Arranged by title or type of material.

Series 1 includes materials on national and regional women's sports associations, the enactment of Title IX, and women's sports at Princeton, particularly during the tenure from 1970 to 1982 of Merrily Dean Baker, founding Director of Women's Physical Education at Princeton.

Women's varsity competition at Princeton began with tennis began in Spring of 1971, and women athletes were successful, winning championships in crew, field hockey, sailing, squash, swimming and tennis by 1975. The first five Princeton women's tennis teams were undefeated. By 1980, the women's athletics program included varsity programs in basketball, crew, cross country, field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, squash, swimming, tennis, track, and volleyball, as well as a host of club sports (such as softball, fencing, soccer, golf and gymnastics) and coed club sports (such as badminton, karate, and sailing).

The series includes annual printed booklets on women's athletics at Princeton, Baker's Title IX papers (clippings and press as well as a compliance manual; proposed amendments and policy interpretation; a senior thesis chapter on Title IX at Princeton; pre-publication copies of "Complying with Title IX" by Martha Matthews and Shirley McCune and "Stalled at the Start" issued by the NOW LDEF), publications from various women's sports associations (the EAIAW and AIAW, the NAPECW), as well as technique charts and rule guides to various sports, including gymnastics in particular, as well as swimming and diving, soccer, basketball, and volleyball, among others. To some extent these echo and complement the rule books contained in Series 2, but those in this series are geared specifically towards women athletes.

Merrily Dean Baker was the first Princeton women's field hockey coach, from 1971 to 1974, and the women's gymnastics coach from 1972 to 1976. She became Associate Director of Athletics for Physical Education and Women's Programs in 1973 (under Director of Athletics Royce Flippin, Jr.). Baker implemented Princeton's programs in women's basketball, field hockey, tennis, swimming, and lacrosse. In 1977-1978, she was president of the Eastern Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW). She was also Vice President of the AIAW, and served on the Office of Civil Rights Committee that created the guidelines to implement Title IX legislation. She was among the women administrators who met to establish an Ivy League women's championship competition.

Baker went on to direct women's athletics at the University of Minnesota from 1982 to 1988, and served as the assistant executive director of the NCAA from 1988 to 1992. She was athletic director at Michigan State University from 1992 to 1995 (the first woman to hold the post at a Big Ten university), and interim athletic director at Florida Gulf Coast University from 1998 to 2000. She was awarded the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 and was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.

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General athletic files contain published rulebooks and guidebooks for individual sports, especially from the mid-twentieth century and the 1970s, many printed by the NCAA, as well as copies of periodicals such as Modern Gymnast and football programs from Princeton and elsewhere. There are also printed NCAA championship booklets, convention bulletins, manuals, rules and regulations. Much of the material is not specific to Princeton, but some Princeton programs and press releases are included in the football, basketball, hockey, soccer, track, and wrestling files.

Arranged primarily by sport or by title.

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Series 3 includes material with a clear or inferred relation to Joseph Raycroft (1867-1955), who was Chairman of Health and Physical Education at Princeton from 1911 to 1936, when he received emeritus status (Raycroft's papers form the collection AC 146 in the University Archives—see that collection for a longer biographical note). The series here includes mainly publications and periodicals ranging from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, and reflects Raycroft's association with the University of Chicago and the Worcester Academy as an alumnus, as well as his interests in rare books, intramural sports, football and basketball, physical training for the military, and the Olympic Games, among various others. Raycroft served on the Olympic Committees of 1932 and 1936, and attended the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. He became Vice President of the American Olympic Committee. Material on the Olympic Games forms the latter half of this series, including programs for the Inter-Allied Games in Paris in 1919, minutes of the Olympic Congress of Berlin in 1930, and some Olympic Committee correspondence from 1939 and 1951-1953.

Some of the Dillon Gym Library Collection derives from the Joseph Raycroft Library (one file in this series contains lists of publications there), which was established in Dillon Gym in 1948 with 1500 donated volumes after Raycroft's first library burned with the old gym in 1944. The Raycroft Library was dismantled in 1972, near the time that Raycroft's papers were transferred to the University Archives.

Arranged in approximate chronological order and by title.

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A series of administrative materials reflects the administration of the Princeton University Athletic Association—audit reports range from 1933 to 1949—as well as plans, budgets, and invoices for improvements to the Caldwell Field House and Frelinghuysen Field, particularly in the early 1960s, including a plan to install lighting at Frelinghuysen Field. The audit reports and later correspondence, estimates and invoices, blueprints, supply catalogs and budgets for physical improvements appear to come from the files of Director of Athletics R. Kenneth Fairman.

Included here are internal, university-wide publications on faculty benefits and fundraising campaigns, admissions and promotional material from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as athletic apparel and supply catalogs and copies of the Ivy League Record Book from the 1970s and 1980s.

Arranged in approximate chronological order and by topic.

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Series 5 contains material from the Princeton men's lacrosse team. Files include player rosters, game statistics, sketches and plans compiled by coaches from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, which are organized by opposing university. Also included here are various high-school and university lacrosse programs spanning the years 1972 to 1983 (including programs from Johns Hopkins, where Coach Jerry Schmidt had been a player, and Hobart, where he coached lacrosse before coming to Princeton from 1982 to 1987). The collection includes more than two boxes of VHS footage of scrimmages and games between 1983 and 1991.

Analog audiovisual formats will need to be converted to a current format at the patron's expense before a reproduction can be made. Patrons should allow approximately four to six weeks for reproductions. Please see the audio visual digitization policy at http://rbsc.princeton.edu/policies/mudd-library-imaging-guidelines-and-price-list

Arranged chronologically, by type of material and, for statistics files, alphabetically by opposing university.

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Series 6 contains reels of 16 mm film with portions of games, scrimmages, and highlights from fall 1962. The film has not been transferred to another format, and Mudd library does not have the facilities to view this material.

Analog audiovisual formats will need to be converted to a current format at the patron's expense before a reproduction can be made. Patrons should allow approximately four to six weeks for reproductions.

Please see the audio visual digitization policy at http://rbsc.princeton.edu/policies/mudd-library-imaging-guidelines-and-price-list

Chronological.

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