Sports Information Office, Athletics Department (RcG. 100)

Series 1. Sports
This series contains documents relating to a particular sport. The sports are arranged alphabetically intc sub-series as follows, Baseball, Basketball (men's, women's), Crew, Cross-country (men's, women's), Fencing (women's), Field Hockey, Football, Golf (men's, women's), Gymnastics, Lacrosse, Rifle, Sailing, Soccer (men's, women's), Softball, Swimming and Diving (men's, women's), Track and Field (men's, women's), Volleyball, Wrestling. Each sport includes rosters. scoring records (box scores), schedules, programs and media guides. Where there are double header programs, the programs were placed in the men's programs by sport. Programs, media guides, and prospectus may be bound in one publication. Where this occurs, the publication is located chronologically with programs.

Several of the sports contain player profiles. Biographical information may also be found in the Subject File. Series V. Of interest in this series may be basketball's Fastbreak Club file (box 9, folder 73) which contains correspondence and newsletters of this organization. The Fastbreak Club was created to increase the general and financial interest among alumni who played or coached basketball at URI.

Series 2. Press Releases
This series contains press releases by the Office of Sports and Information at the University of Rhode Island. This series also contains the official publications of the University Rhode Island Athletic Department, Ram Notes and Ramarks and newsletters. This series is arranged chronologically by year.

Series 3. Photographs
This series consists of sport action shots, team photos, head shots of individual players and athletic staff, proof sheets, negatives, slides, and glass slides. Some captions are available for the photographs. The series is arranged in subseries by subject/type of photograph and/ or medium: Athletic Event, Head shots, Proofs, negatives and slides and Glass slides.

The items in Athletic Events and in Proofs, negatives and slides are arranged alphabetically by sport or subject and chronologically within the folder. The head shots (2"x3") are arranged alphabetically by last name of person and are divided as staff or student. Unidentified photographs are at the end of each sub series. The glass slides consist of 141 slides from the years 1932-35 and are largely concerned with rosters and point totals of basketball games played during those years. Several of the glass slides are cracked, the most severely damaged being the March 6, 1935 game versus Brown. The slides were re-boxed are arranged in their original order as found in a wooden 4 drawer file box.