Scope and Contents The Coats and Davenport families collection contains correspondence between Emma Coats Davenport, her parents, and her husband describing day to day family life and life on the farm. The collection also contains letters from other friends and relatives. During the time Eugene and Emma lived at Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.) (now Michigan State University), the letters contain descriptions of campus life, people, and Eugene’s activities. Later after they moved away, there are the...

Scope and Contents The Lisetta Neukom Higgins collection consists primarily of newsclippings, a scrapbook of newsclippings, and a few complete editions of newspapers - all of which contain the published work of Higgins and span the dates 1907-1917. The newspapers are in frail condition. The scrapbook is in stable, leaning towards frail, condition. In all cases, Higgins faithfully either encircled or marked in some way the articles that she wrote. They have been marked, and often dated, with a black grease...

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The Instructional and Public Television records consist of materials related to WMSB-TV and WKAR-TV including press releases, policy, brochures, reports, and program information. The collection also includes audio-visual materials such as photographs, film and video. These AV materials include Commencements and State of the University events.

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Footage of the November 1964 game against the Illinois Fighting Illini at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. MSU Head Coach - Duffy Daugherty; Illinois Head Coach - Pete Elliott. Spartans lost 0-16.

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Footage of the October 1976 game against the Illinois Fighting Illini at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. MSU Head Coach - Darryl Rogers; Illinois Head Coach - Bob Blackman. Spartans won 31-23.

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Footage of the October 1973 game against the Illinois Fighting Illini at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. MSU Head Coach - Denny Stolz; Illinois Head Coach - Bob Blackman. Spartans lost 3-6.

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Footage from the October 1957 Homecoming game against the Illinois Fighting Illini at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. MSU Head Coach - Duffy Daugherty; Illinois Head Coach - Ray Eliot. Spartans won 19-14. Footage includes the Homecoming Court gathering pre-game at the sidelines, with Sparty holding a bouquet of roses for the Homecoming Queen.

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Footage of the October 1973 game against the Illinois Fighting Illini at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. MSU Head Coach - Denny Stolz; Illinois Head Coach - Bob Blackman. Spartans lost 3-6.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The records of the Football Office consist of subject files from Hugh “Duffy” Daugherty time as head coach. Most of the records deal with various All-Star and regular season games. The All-Star game files consist of correspondence relating to the planning of the games, particularly to the involvement of Daugherty as a coach or to the selection of Michigan State University players. The regular season games are organized by the name of opponent. Materials include routine correspondence between...

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The collection consists of athletic event video tapes and digitized sports film footage. Sports include basketball, football, hockey, cross country, and swimming & diving.