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Simpson, E. Leroy, Playbook, 1954-1956, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
Simpson, E. Leroy, Playbook, 1954-1956, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
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A Pittsburg State University football players’ playbook from the mid-1950s, a football program from 1951, and a newspaper clipping.
Edward LeRoy Simpson was born in Miami, Oklahoma in 1934, to Eddie and Ada Simpson. From 1952-1956 LeRoy attended the Kansas State Teachers College (now Pittsburg State University). He played several positions on the football team, including quarterback, and lettered all four years. He went on to receive a master’s degree from the Kansas State Teachers College in 1961. After earning a doctorate, Dr. Simpson joined Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska in 1968 as an associate professor of human performance/leisure …
Barnard, Gerald, Photographs, 1936-1938, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
Barnard, Gerald, Photographs, 1936-1938, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
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Five photographs of the football team of the Kansas Teachers College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University) from the 1930s, taken by student photographer Gerald Barnard.
Gerald W. (Jerry) Barnard was born in Oswego, Kansas in 1918. Barnard attended the Kansas Teachers College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University) from 1936-1940 and after graduation, worked as an accountant. He worked with the Deming Investment Company and then the First National Bank of Oswego. He also served as the president of Oswego Industries, chairman of Mid-America, Inc., vice-president of the Kansas Bankers Association, chairman of the Kansas Development Credit Corporation, and …