Web Resources
Click the banner above to view a digitized version of one of our most important documents—the almost 600-page scrapbook owned for decades by George Hackenschmidt, the World Wrestling Champion during the early part of the 20th century.
In September 2010, the Stark Center was pleased to become the new home for the Scholarly Sports Sites, a directory of academic websites related to a wide variety of fields pertaining to sports originally created by Gretchen Ghent, alibrarian at the University of Calgary. We hope that these resources prove useful for researchers and all those interested in studying physical culture.
View the Scholary Sports Sites archive.
Fifty or sixty years ago, weight rooms for varsity athletes on college campuses were a rarity and most athletes were either told not to lift or told to lift only light weights because heavy lifting would supposedly make them slow, stiff, clumsy. They were told—by almost all coaches and sports scientists that heavy lifting would make them musclebound. Musclebound! How did such a complete change happen in only half a century? How did a forbidden activity become a required activity? How did black become white? You’ll find the answer to that question and many others in The Quest for Victory Timeline.
The five-inch-thick scrapbook of professional strongman and gym owner known as "Professor Attila" is filled with dozens of articles about Attila's performances as a strongman, his partnership with Sandow, his work at the gym in New York City, and advertisements for his acts.
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This online exhibit of over 100 game programs is a collaborative effort between the University of Texas' Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education and the Center for American History. The site is designed to be used interactively with the wealth of historical images and written materials on the official UT football site. Be sure to click the links as you go through the web site so you can learn more about players, coaches and the traditions of UT football.
View Longhorn Legacy: A History of UT Football Programs.
Dated 1909-1910, these 275 letters are on loan to the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports from Walter Riedel, C.E.O. of the Stark Foundation in Orange, Texas, and an employee of the foundation for over 30 years. They came to him as a gift from Nelda Stark, Lutcher Stark’s widow.
Explore the collection of H.J. Lutcher Stark's Football Letters.
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All research material is made available free of charge by the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center. The Stark Center currently covers all costs, labor, and resources associated with the cataloging and presentation of these resources, which are made available to the public through this website and at the Center. Please consider making a donation to the Stark Center through the University's secure donation system.
