Promotional image of campus athletics including tennis and football from the 1896 School Bulletin.
Early football team in front of the Administration Building (Cranford Hall.) The first games were played in the field north of the building.
H. Downey, Arthur Kendel and Harry Thyar. Football players for Colorado State Normal School. The interesting piece of equipment hanging around Mr. Kendel's neck is a nose guard.
Women playing basketball in front of the Normal Building (Cranford Hall), 1903.
Women's basketball team, 1900.
Women's basketball team, 1901.
Men's basketball team, 1912. All of the player's have "T"s on their jackets for "Teachers".
Men's baseball team, ca. 1898.
Tennis courts were an early addition to campus, and tennis played an important part of the Athletic Association for students.
All students and faculty were required to be members of the Athletic Association. Gym classes and other indoor sporting activities were held in the gymnasium in the basement of the Normal building.
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
“A sound mind is a sound body ” — Juvenal.
There is an athletic association, in which is manifested considerable interest. Its object is twofold: Recreation, or enjoyment, and physical training.
The plays consist of Foot Ball, Lawn Tennis, Croquet, Alley Ball, Tug of War, Base Ball, Delsarte Calisthenics. All teachers and students in the school are membersof the athletic association. The membership fee is fifty cents per year, if paid in advance, or twenty-five cents per term. This fee is compulsory.
Considerable work has been done on the athletic field during the year. It is laid off in the form of a rectangle. Within this rectangle is an eliptic race track, exactly a quarter of a mile around ; and around the outer curve of the race track and in the corners made by the rectangle and the elipse are planted a half dozen variety of trees, planted in such a mauner as to give an artistic touch to the grounds. There has never been a time when there has been so much interest in athletics as at the present time. It is that kind of athletics which touches all within the school. They are not developed only for the few, but are for the whole. There are tennis grounds, gymnasium apparatus, basketball grounds, croquet grounds, race track, baseball field, football field, marching grounds, golf-links, quoits, target shooting, archery, etc. Every one finds some form of athletics in which he is interested.
Colorado Normal School Bulletin, 1901.