This collection contains correspondence,
newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, speeches, athletic records, and
personal items, concerning University of Arizona athletics. Teams include
basketball, baseball, and football. Also included is material relating to his
participation in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Border
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and the American Association of College
Baseball Coaches.
Collection Number:
AZ 284
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special
Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL:http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
Biographical Note
James Fred McKale first moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1911 and served as a
baseball coach for Tucson High School. Based on his outstanding record students
from the University of Arizona petitioned University President A. H. Wilde to
hire McKale as the coach for all athletic teams at the U of A. James F. McKale
served as Coach and Director of Athletics at the University of Arizona from
1914-1959.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings,
scrapbooks, photographs, speeches, athletic records, and personal items,
concerning University of Arizona athletics. Teams include basketball, baseball,
and football. Also included is material relating to his participation in the
National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Border Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference, and the American Association of College Baseball Coaches.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish
from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record,
the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The
user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the
University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Miscellaneous photographs were integrated into Special Collections'
University Photograph files. Eleven large framed photographs are hanging in the
McKale Memorial Room, McKale Center.
Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
McKale, James Fred, 1887-1967 --
Archives
Corporate Name(s)
American Association of College Baseball
Coaches
Border Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference
National Collegiate Athletic
Association
University of Arizona --
Buildings
University of Arizona --
Faculty
University of Arizona --
Homecoming
University of Arizona -- Records and
correspondence
University of Arizona -- Sports --
History
University of Arizona -- University
week
University of Arizona. Dept. of Health,
Physical Education and Recreation
Includes membership cards, poems and resolutions in honor of
James F. McKale's "Liar's Medal", first World Series attended, and first
airplane ride.
2
2
The Big "I", personal clippings.
2
3
Insurance.
2
4
Helms Hall College Baseball Hall of Fame.
, 1954
2
5
Course in Physical and Bayonet Training, Princeton
University.
, November
1918
2
6
McKale Stadium.
, 1951-1955
2
7
McKale Scholarship Fund.
, 1956-1963
2
8
Retirement.
, 1957
2
9
80th Birthday celebration plans.
, 1967
box
folder
3
1-10
Letters of sympathy to family.
, 1967
box
folder
4
1
Albion College: Correspondence, etc.
4
2
Albion College: "Doctor McKale".
, 1955
4
3
Sigma Nu Fraternity: Various publications, etc.
4
4
Sigma Nu Fraternity: Directory.
, 1941
4
5
University of Michigan: Summer school notes.
, 1922
4
Old Albion, 1861-1909.
, 1909
4
Io Triumphe (Albion College Alumni
Directory Issue.
, January
1962
box
5
Albion College Scrapbook.
, 1903-1912
Includes material relating to his prior years and Lansing High
School and as a coach at Superior, Wisconsin High School and Tucson High School
after graduation.
Newspaper Columns: "2nd Base Coach".
Collegiate Baseball Digest.
6
4
Speeches: Lincoln.
Includes also
Abraham Lincoln: The Politician by
James F. McKale, published by the University of Arizona Alumni Association,
1967?
6
5
Speeches: George Washington.
6
6
Speeches: Men's Night.
, 1958-1966
6
7
Speeches: Miscellaneous.
6
8
Speeches: Miscellaneous notes, etc.
6
9
Photographs.
box
folder
7
1
Clippings: Education and health.
7
2
Clippings: Humor.
7
3
Clippings: Lincoln.
7
4
Clippings: Politics, social problems, etc.
7
"X Book" (volumes 1-3).
box
8
Books:
El Beisbol en Sonora (1877-1950), by
Miguel S. Durazo, Sonora.
, 1945?
8
Books:
A Course in Football for Players and
Coaches, by Glenn S. Warner, Carlisle, PA.
, 1912
8
Books:
A Scientific and Practical Treatise on
American Football for Schools and Colleges, by A. Alonzo Stagg and
Henry L. Williams, Hartford, Conn.
, 1893
8
Books:
America's National Game... Baseball,
by Albert G. Spalding, New York.
, 1911
8
Books:
United States 1952 Olympic Book
(inscribed).
, 1952
8
Books:
United States 1956 Olympic Book
(inscribed).
, 1956
volume
9
Die Olympischen Spiele 1936, Hamburg, (Band 2,
inscribed).
, 1932