Finding aid created by: Erin Gravley
Date: 2018
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| Aug 2019 | Additional posters added (AS) |
| October 2020 | Additional photographs, tournament materials, and a trophy added (KJ) |
| March 2023 | Content warnings added (HVA) |
Summary |
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| Creator: | Syracuse University Rugby Football Club. |
| Title: | Syracuse University Rugby Football Club Collection |
| Dates: | 1974-2016 |
| Size: | 5 boxes and 5 trophies (9.2 linear feet) |
| Abstract: | Record books, tournament programs, memorabilia, and alumni materials for the Syracuse University Rugby Football Club |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
The Syracuse University Rugby Football Club (SURFC) was founded in 1969 by John Mauro and Peter Baigent. Though scrappy at first, the Club quickly established itself and by 1973 had won the Upstate Tournament. In 1980, during Mardi Gras Rugby Classic in Louisiana, the team gave itself the name still used today, the Syracuse Hammerheads.
The SURFC is a member of the New York State Rugby Conference and USA Rugby.
The Syracuse University Rugby Football Club Collection comprises memorabilia, including trophies and uniforms, and tournament programs, record books, newsletters, photographs, and team schedules and rosters from the earliest years of the Club through the 2010s. The materials range in purpose from promotional to internal.
This collection includes materials that users may find objectionable due to harmful language. These materials are preserved and presented for their historic and research value. This collection also contains sexually explicit content.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Due to their fragile condition and the difficulty in transporting them from their off-site housing, access to the trophies is restricted. Please contact the archivist with any questions.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
A number of newspaper clippings were separated and placed with the Archives' existing clippings file on the Syracuse University Rugby Football Club.
Additional photographs of the rugby team can be found in the Syracuse University Photograph Collection.
Names
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University Rugby Football Club.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Syracuse University -- Rugby football.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Photographs.
Score books.
Sports uniforms.
Trophies (objects)
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Syracuse University Rugby Football Club Collection,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Barry Glickstein in 2018 and 2019 and of Rick Portine in 2020.
Processing Information
Materials were rehoused in archival folders and boxes.
Materials are arranged alphabetically.
Collection
| Collection | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Club information 1976 | ||||||||||
| This collection includes materials that users may find objectionable due to harmful language. These materials are preserved and presented for their historic and research value. This collection also contains sexually explicit content. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Colonials Eastern Rugby Union directory 1981 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Correspondence 1984-1988, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Day one handouts 1978-1980, 1994-1995 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fliers 1987-1988, undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 3 | Jerseys circa 1977-1983, 1994 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Letterhead 1994, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Membership 1976-1980, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Newsletters 1978, 1988-1993 | ||||||||||
| This collection includes materials that users may find objectionable due to harmful language. These materials are preserved and presented for their historic and research value. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Photographs 1976-1994, 2002, 2007 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Photograph circa 1976 | ||||||||||
| This collection includes materials that users may find objectionable due to harmful language. These materials are preserved and presented for their historic and research value. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Posters 2010-2012, undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Prototype Hammerhead emblem circa 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Record books 1974, 1977-1983 (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Saracen tour book April 1982 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Schedules and line-ups 1979-1983, circa 1985 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Scorekeeping 1976-1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Syracuse University magazine - article "In the scrum" Summer 2016 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tournament programs 1974-1979, 1980-1996, 2005 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Trophies | |||||||||||
| Shelf TC2 | Clarkson rugby tournament - first place Spring 1999 | ||||||||||
| Shelf TC2 | Empire rugby conference - 15s champions November 8, 2015 | ||||||||||
| Shelf TC2 | New York state rugby conference college spring tournament premier - women champion 2002 | ||||||||||
| Shelf TC2 | New York state rugby conference - women's empire division champion 2000 | ||||||||||
| Shelf TC2 | Pittsburgh rugby classic - women's university cup champions 2007 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | New York City sevens rugby - college champions Syracuse University 1981 | ||||||||||