Guide to the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire Basketball Records,​ 1927–​2009

Overview of the Collection

Repository:               
Special Collections & Archives
McIntyre Library
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
P.O. Box 4004
105 Garfield Ave.
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
(715)-836-2739
https://library.uwec.edu/archives/

Reference Code: USGZE AS171

Accession Number: 92-194, 93-063, 12-034, 14-017

Collection Number: Archives Series 171

Creators: University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire 

Title: Basketball Records

Dates: 1927–2009

Quantity: 8.7 linear feet (8 archives boxes, 4 record center cartons and one oversize box); Digital Materials: 80 files, 1,362 MB

Location of Collection: D6/1f (Box 1), D6/1g (2-5, 11-13), D6/5d (Boxes 6-8), D7/3g (Box 9), A2/2f (Box 10); Digital Asset Preservation Storage: Projects – Athletic Yearbooks

Languages: Collection materials are in English.

Summary: Records include scorebooks, reel to reel film of games played, and various materials documenting the basketball program at UW-Eau Claire.

Biographical / Historical Note

The UW-Eau Claire Basketball team began with the opening of Eau Claire Normal School in 1916.  Eau Claire’s first prominent coach was Bill Zorn, who coached Blugold football until 1943 and continued to lead the basketball team for 40 years. Zorn led the team to conference championships in 1938, 1939, 1955 and 1956, as well as the National Intercollegiate Basketball tournament in Kansas City in 1939, 1945, 1946, 1951 and 1956.  After his retirement in 1968, Zorn was replaced by Kenneth (Ken) Anderson as head basketball coach.  The Blugolds won 14 conference titles and competed in the NAIA tournament 15 times under Anderson's management.

Content Description

These records contain scorebooks giving players' names, numbers, goals, fouls and the final score (1927–1967); miscellaneous programs, basketball yearbooks, publicity materials regarding basketball at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (1952–1976), and video and reel to reel recordings of individual basketball games (1969–1979). Includes men’s and women’s basketball season reviews, yearbooks, and media guides ranging from 1966–2009, which are digitized and available online in the archives digital collections.

Related Collections

•  AS172: Football Records, 1969–2008
• AS174: Blugold Athletics Sports Information, 1923–2010
• AS473: UW-Eau Claire Oral History Interviews, 1963–1993          

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information: Transferred to the University Archives by Student Affairs prior to January 2011. Additions transferred from the Athletics Department in 2013–2014.

Access Restrictions: Collection is open to the public.

Use Restrictions: Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. Copyright owned by the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.

Processing Note: Processed by Jacob Riehl in November 2013.

Arrangement: Flat arrangement.

OCLC #: 18534863

Subjects

Corporate Names: 
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire – Basketball

Subject Terms: 
Basketball—Wisconsin—Eau Claire
Scorebooks

Detailed List of Contents

Container

Contents

Dates

Box 1

Score Cards

1927–1928

Box 1

Score Books

1931–1940

Box 2

Score Books

1940–1950

Box 3

Score Books

1950–1960

Box 4

Score Books

1960–1967

Box 5, Folder 1

Newspaper Articles

1972

Box 5, Folder 2

Blugold Basketball yearbooks

1969–1972

Box 5, Folder 3

Blugold Basketball yearbooks

1973–1978

Box 5,  Folder 4

Basketball Schedule

1957–1958

Box 5, Folder 5

Miscellaneous

1970s

Box 5, Folder 6

Miscellaneous

1970s

Box 5, Folder 7

Blugold Basketball yearbooks

1986–1987

Box 5, Folder 8

Salute to Coach Ken Anderson Program

1995

Box 6

Film Reels

1969–1979

Box 7

Film Reels

1977–1979

Box 8

Film Reels

1972–1974

Box 9

Film Reels

1975–1977

Box 10

Film Reels, Posters, Pennant

1972, 2009

Box 11

Men’s Basketball Season Reviews, Yearbooks, Media Guides

1966–1994

Box 12

Men’s Basketball Season Reviews, Yearbooks, Media Guides

1994–2008

Box 13

Women’s Basketball Season Reviews, Yearbooks, Media Guides; includes folder of extra brochures and signed teams photos

1999–2009; ca. 1984–1998

Folder “Basketball, Men’s”

Men’s Basketball Season Reviews, Yearbooks, Media Guides, 1966–2008 (Digitized)

53 files, 995 MB

Folder “Basketball, Women’s”

Women’s Basketball Season Reviews, Yearbooks, Media Guides, 1999–2009 (Digitized)

17 files, 367 MB