Finding Aid for Avery Brundage Collection, 1908-82 | University of Illinois Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: Avery Brundage Collection, 1908-82

ID: 26/20/37

Primary Creator: Brundage, Avery (1887-1975)

Extent: 152.4 cubic feet

Arrangement: by sub-series and alphabetical or chronological thereunder

Date Acquired: 02/05/1975. More info below under Accruals.

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Collection of Avery Brundage '09 (1887-75), including correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, artifacts, certificates, awards, honors, publications concerning Brundage's service as president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72), United States Olympic Committee (1929-52) and Amateur Athletic Union (1928-36); national Olympic committees; international sports federations; Olympic games in Australia (1956), England (1948), Finland (1952), Germany (1936, 1972), Italy (1960), Japan (1964) and Mexico (1968); winter Olympic games in Austria (1964), France (1968), Italy (1956), Japan (1972), Norway (1952), Switzerland (1948) and the United States (1960); controversies over the participation of teams from China (1959-66), Germany (1953-65), Korea (1953-68) and South Africa (1963-73); bids for Olympic games (1938-73); international athletic competition; National Collegiate Athletic Association (1952-74); colleges and universities and amateurism. Sports federation and subject files cover basketball, boxing, equestrian sports, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, rowing, sailing, skating, skiing, soccer, swimming, track and field, and wrestling. Correspondence includes J. Lyman Bingham, Asa S. Bushnell, J. Sigfrid Edstram, Daniel J. Ferris, William M. Garland, Gustavus T. Kirby, Otto Mayer, Frederic W. Rubien, Heinz Schobel and James Simms.

Subject/Index Terms

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Amateur Athletic Union],
[Series 2: Amateurism],
[Series 3: Colleges and Universities],
[Series 4: Individuals],
[Series 5: IOC Presidents and Secretariat],
[Series 6: IOC Members],
[Series 7: Bulletin Officiel du Comite International Olympique],
[Series 8: IOC Newsletter],
[Series 9: Circular Letters],
[Series 10: Duplicate Circular Letters],
[Series 11: Circular Letter Responses],
[Series 12: IOC Meetings],
[Series 13: IOC Minutes],
[Series 14: IOC Commissions and Committees],
[Series 15: IOC Subject File],
[Series 16: National Olympic Committees],
[Series 17: Olympic Games],
[Series 18: Olympic Games Bids],
[Series 19: Regional Games],
[Series 20: Sports Federations],
[Series 21: Sports Organizations],
[Series 22: Sports Publications],
[Series 23: United States Olympic Association and Committee],
[Series 24: Personal Materials],
[Series 25: Articles and Speeches],
[Series 26: Publications],
[Series 27: Clippings],
[Series 28: Photographs],
[Series 29: Olympic Games Programs],
[Series 30: Programs for Regional Games],
[Series 31: Sports Programs],
[Series 32: Subject File],
[Series 33: Travel],
[Series 34: Book Notes and Sources],
[Series 35: Important Letters],
[Series 36: Microfilm],
[Series 37: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes],
[Series 38: Scrapbooks],
[Series 39: Audiovisual],
[Series 40: Photo Albums],
[Series 41: Certificates and Awards],
[Series 42: Oversize File],
[[information restricted]],
[Series 44: Series Additions, 2023],
[All]

Series 25: Articles and Speeches

Box 273

Folder 8: Notes
Folder 9: Lists of Speeches and Articles, 1929-68
Folder 10: "Is Something Wrong with Current Engineering Education?", 1908
Folder 11: "A Sound Mind in a Sound Body" in American Boy, May 1919
Folder 12: Articles by Brundage, 1926-29
Folder 13: "One Hundred Feet Under Chicago with a Caisson Digger", ca. 1928
Folder 14: Radio Talk Notes, January 1929
Folder 15: Address by Avery Brundage, President of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States at the Hotel Sherman, September 16, 1929
Folder 16: AAU, 41st Annual Convention, "In Defense of the Amateur Code", November 1929
Folder 17: Sportsmanship Brotherhood, December 30, 1939
Folder 18: Speech Notes, 1930
Folder 19: Welcome Speech to British Empire Track Team, 1930
Folder 20: Bobby Jones Dinner, 1930
Folder 21: NCAA Convention, December 31, 1930
Folder 22: Speech Notes, 1931
Folder 23: Athletic Policy Notes, Chicago Athletic Association, February 25, 1931
Folder 24: Chicago Tribune dinner for French and American Boxers, May 11, 1931
Folder 25: "Athletics and Industry", 1931
Folder 26: Speeches, Athletics and Business, June 10, 1931
Folder 27: Speech Notes, 1932
Folder 28: Catholic Youth Organization, January 3, 1933
Folder 29: Speech Notes, 1934
Folder 30: "For Honor of Country and Glory of Sport" in Olympic News, August, 1934
Folder 31: College Alumni and Athletics, November 23, 1934
Folder 32: Speech Notes, 1935
Folder 33: Speech Notes, 1936
Folder 34: Articles, Building Construction Business, December 1936
Folder 35: Speech Notes, 1937
Folder 36: IOC, 36th Session, Warsaw, 1937
Folder 37: Speech Notes, 1938
Folder 38: Baron de Coubertin Speech, 1938
Folder 39: University of Illinois Speech, 1938

Box 274

Folder 1: Chicago Olympics, August 28, 1938
Folder 2: Speech Notes, 1939
Folder 3: University of Chicago, 1939
Folder 4: Talks in Japan, 1939
Folder 5: "The Coach as Key Man", February 1939
Folder 6: "Chicago" at the Federated Advertising Club, March 9, 1939
Folder 7: Articles, 1940
Folder 8: Speech Notes, 1940
Folder 9: Citizens to Keep America Out of War Committee Speech, August 4, 1940
Folder 10: "The All American Way," Premier Showing, January 10, 1941
Folder 11: Sheldon Clark Dinner, December 10, 1941
Folder 12: Avery Brundage Book, Russian Sports, Notes, 1942: folder missing
Folder 13: Sports and the USA, 1942: folder digitized
Folder 14: First Pan American Games, Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 1942
Folder 15: "Outline" of article on Amateurism and Olympics, February 9, 1942
Folder 16: Speech Notes, 1943
Folder 17: Dedication of the "Press Gallery," Hotel La Salle, December 11, 1943
Folder 18: Speech Notes, 1946
Folder 19: Central American and Caribbean Game Speeches, 1946
Folder 20: National Four Wall Softball Championships, 1946
Folder 21: "The Olympic Game and the Question of Broken Time," in Amateur Athletics, May 1947
Folder 22: Speech Notes, 1947
Folder 23: Broken Time, addresses and talks, 1947-48
Folder 24: "The Olympic Games," in Amateur Athlete, August 1948
Folder 25: Speech Notes, 1948
Folder 26: Knights of Columbus Program, January 17, 1948
Folder 27: "Amateur Sport and Broken Time," in World Sports, November 1948
Folder 28: Holiday Greeting in Allsports, November 1948
Folder 29: Cornerstone Message, Cromwell and Collier Building, 1949
Folder 30: City of Santa Barbara Award Acceptance Speech, July 2, 1949
Folder 31: Notes on Sports, Politics, Art, and the Olympic Movement, 1950-59
Folder 32: Central American and Caribbean Games, 1950
Folder 33: Football Memos, 1950
Folder 34: 44th Session Speech, Copenhagen, May 1950
Folder 35: "Stop, Look, and Listen", ca. 1951
Folder 36: "What's Wrong with College Football?", October 7, 1951
Folder 37: Data, Statements, Talks, 1952-59: folder 1 of 3

Box 275

Folder 1: Data, Statements, Talks, 1952-59: folder 2 of 3
Folder 2: Data, Statements, Talks, 1952-59: folder 3 of 3
Folder 3: New Year's Message, 1952
Folder 4: "The Fumbled Ball," in The Phi Delta Kappan, March 1952
Folder 5: Olympic Telethon, June 21, 1952
Folder 6: "My Biggest Olympic Battles" in This Week, June 29, 1952
Folder 7: Remarks upon accepting keys of IOC office from J.S. Edstrom at Lausanne Dinner, 1952
Folder 8: Memos and Notes on sports, art, and politics, 1952-58: folder 1 of 2
Folder 9: Memos and Notes on sports, art, and politics, 1952-58: folder 2 of 2
Folder 10: Messages and articles, 1954-57
Folder 11: Sports speeches, 1954-56, 1959
Folder 12: "After Three Weeks in Russia" Commonwealth Club of California, 1954
Folder 13: Avery Brundage Book, Russian Sports, 1954
Folder 14: University of Illinois School of Physical Education Dinner, November 1954
Folder 15: Articles, 1955
Folder 16: Pan American Sports Congress in Mexico, January 3, 1955
Folder 17: "What I Saw in Three Weeks Behind the Iron Curtain," Economic Club of Detroit, 1954-55
Folder 18: "The Russian Menace in Next Year's Olympics" The Saturday Evening Post, April 30, 1955
Folder 19: IOC 50th Session Speech, Paris, June 13-17, 1955
Folder 20: "Olympische Grundsatze" in Leichtathletik, December 20, 1955
Folder 21: Statement for Sovietskaja, Russia, 1956
Folder 22: Olympians Meeting Statement, New York, May 11, 1956
Folder 23: Australian Broadcasting Commission "Guest of Honor" Program, Interview with Mr. Avery Brundage, 25 November 1956
Folder 24: IOC 54th Session Speech, Tokyo, 1958
Folder 25: III Pan American Games, Chicago, 1959
Folder 26: AAHPE&R Meeting, Portland Oregon, April 1, 1959
Folder 27: Speeches and Talks in Japan, 1959

Box 276

Folder 1: Speeches and Statements, 1960-69: folder 1 of 2
Folder 2: Speeches and Statements, 1960-69: folder 2 of 2
Folder 3: SAE Speech, 1960
Folder 4: "Broken Time", November 15, 1961
Folder 5: Washington, D.C., talk, memorandum, December 2, 1961
Folder 6: Prefaces, Remarks, News Releases, and Salutations on Olympic matters, 1962-69
Folder 7: "A Statement of Principle" Sport, May 1962
Folder 8: "College Football: An International Scandal", Reprinted from Amateur Athlete, 1962
Folder 9: Speeches and Talks in Japan, 1963-65, 1968
Folder 10: New Year's Messages, 1964
Folder 11: Defense of Sport-Discours Olympien, Innsbruck, February 1964
Folder 12: "Sports Make Full Stature of Man" in Hakumen Herald, June 27, 1964
Folder 13: "A Bridge of International Understanding" Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, Fall 1964
Folder 14: "The Olympic Games," in Illustrated Weekly of India, October 11, 1964
Folder 15: IOC 63rd Session Speech, Madrid, 1965
Folder 16: IOC 64th Session Speech, Rome, 1966
Folder 17: Chicago Commonwealth Club, June 10, 1966
Folder 18: Pierre de Coubertin Speech, 1966
Folder 19: IOC 65th Session Speech, Tehran, 1967
Folder 20: "The Fumbled Ball", April 15, 1967
Folder 21: American Jewish Life Statement, December 23, 1967
Folder 22: Civic Dinner, 80th Birthday of Avery Brundage, September 28, 1967
Folder 23: Civic Committee to Honor Avery Brundage, September 29, 1967
Folder 24: Notes on Art, Politics, Sport, 1968-70
Folder 25: IOC 67th Session Speech, Mexico City, 1968
Folder 26: Foreign Correspondents Club, Tokyo, June 29, 1968
Folder 27: "Broken Time", April 7, 1969
Folder 28: IOC 68th Session, Warsaw, June 6, 1969
Folder 29: Address at the Presentation of the Medal of Merit of the Avery Brundage Foundation to President Diaz, July 18, 1969

Box 277

Folder 1: IOC 75th Celebration, Helsinki, October 29, 1969
Folder 2: IOC 69th Session, Amsterdam, May 12, 1970: folder 1 of 2
Folder 3: IOC 69th Session, Amsterdam, May 12, 1970: folder 2 of 2
Folder 4: Ski Club, San Francisco, June 11, 1970
Folder 5: Japan American Society, Chicago, July 9, 1970
Folder 6: Mile High Club, Denver, CO, August 3, 1970
Folder 7: IOC 75th Anniversary of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, Budapest, September, 1970
Folder 8: "Broken Time", 1971
Folder 9: Prefaces and speeches, 1971-72
Folder 10: Pan American Sport Organization, XI Assembly, July 28, 1971
Folder 11: IOC 71st Session, Luxemburg, September 13-18, 1971
Folder 12: IOC 73rd Session, Munich, 1972
Folder 13: Foreign Correspondents Club, Tokyo, February 1972
Folder 14: Channel City Club, November 3, 1972
Folder 15: Chicago Youth Week, June 10, 1972
Folder 16: Chicago Youth Week, 1973
Folder 17: Amateurism: folder 1 of 3
Folder 18: Amateurism: folder 2 of 3
Folder 19: Amateurism: folder 3 of 3
Folder 20: Amateurism, 1929-39: folder 1 of 2
Folder 21: Amateurism, 1929-39: folder 2 of 2
Folder 22: Amateurism, 1929
Folder 23: Amateurism, 1940-41, 1949

Box 278

Folder 1: Amateurism, 1954-57

Folder 2: Amateurism, 1966, 1969

Folder 3: Amateurism, 1972

Folder 4: Amateur Athletic Union

Folder 5: Amateur Athletic Union, 1929

Folder 6: Amateur Athletic Union, 1930-38

folder 1 of 2

Folder 7: Amateur Athletic Union, 1930-38

folder 2 of 2

Folder 8: Amateur Athletic Union, 1942-46, 1949

Folder 9: Amateur Athletic Union, 1950-59

Folder 10: Amateur Athletic Union, 1960-62, 1969

Sub-Series 1: Chicago

Folder 11: Association of Commerce and Industry, ca. 1930's
Folder 12: Campaigns to Promote, 1939
Folder 13: Association of Commerce and Industry, 1940-41
Folder 14: Olympic Site and Sports Center, 1955, 1958

Folder 15: Olympic Games, 1928

Folder 16: X Olympiad, Los Angeles, 1932

Folder 17: Olympic Games, 1933-36

Folder 18: IV Winter Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1936

Folder 19: XI Olympiad, Berlin, 1936, 1938

Box 279

Folder 1: XII Olympiad, Osaka, 1938
Folder 2: Olympic Games, 1938-39
Folder 3: Olympic Games, 1946-48
Folder 4: On the XIV Olympiad, London and the V Winter Games, St. Moritz, 1948
Folder 5: Olympic Games, 1950-57
Folder 6: XV Olympiad, Helsinki, 1952
Folder 7: XVI Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956
Folder 8: VIII Winter Games, Squaw Valley, 1958-60
Folder 9: XVII Olympiad, Rome, 1960
Folder 10: IX Winter Games, Innsbruck, February, 1964, 1961, 1964
Folder 11: V Olympiad, Stockholm, 1912, 1962
Folder 12: Olympic Games, 1962-64
Folder 13: XVIII Olympiad,Tokyo, 1962, 1964, 1967
Folder 14: Olympic Games, 1964
Folder 15: X Winter Games, Grenoble, 1968
Folder 16: XIX Olympiad, Mexico City, October 12-27, 1968
Folder 17: Olympic Games, 1970-73
Folder 18: XI Winter Games, Sapporo, 1972
Folder 19: XX Olympiad, Munich, 1972
Folder 20: Olympic Movement
Folder 21: Olympic Movement, 1938

Box 280

Folder 1: Olympic Movement, 1954-59
Folder 2: Olympic Movement, 1960-69
Folder 3: Olympic Movement, Olympic Academy, 1965-69
Folder 4: Olympic Movement, Transatlantic Forum, July 4, 1967
Folder 5: Olympic Movement, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., September 17, 1968
Folder 6: Olympic Movement, Olympic Academy, 1970-71
Folder 7: Olympic Movement, 1972
Folder 8: Not By Avery Brundage, 1926, 1934-39, 1948
Folder 9: United States Olympic Committee, 1935-39: folder 1 of 3
Folder 10: United States Olympic Committee, 1935-39: folder 2 of 3
Folder 11: United States Olympic Committee, 1935-39: folder 3 of 3
Folder 12: United States Olympic Committee, 1940-42, 1948
Folder 13: United States Olympic Committee, 1950-53, 1959
Folder 14: Notes and memorandums
Folder 15: Notes and memorandums: folder 1 of 3
Folder 16: Notes and memorandums: folder 2 of 3

Box 281

Folder 1: Notes and memorandums: folder 3 of 3
Folder 2: Interviews, 1931
Folder 3: Interviews, 1954-59
Folder 4: Interviews, 1961, 1966-69
Folder 5: Interviews, 1970-73
Folder 6: Snow Magazine, Fall 1970
Folder 7: Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, 1972