The Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC, located off the Atrium, one floor down in the Terrell Library) is currently showing an exhibit sharing the origins and history of the schools football program, dating from before the schools first game on November 18th, 1894 through to their second Rose Bowl appearance in 1931. The exhibit includes programs, ticket stubs, photographs, and many other documents, but the centerpiece of the exhibit is a large-screen television displaying some of the fruits of a digitization project which has resulted in about nineteen Apple Cup games dating from 1929 to 1978 being placed online for public viewing (with the previously digitized 1916 Rose Bowl game).
Win the Victory: The Early Days of the Football at Washington State will be open for viewing during MASC's regular hours, Monday - Friday, 8:30 - 4:30. In addition, on home football Saturdays the exhibit area will be open from four hours before gametime until kickoff (as the Terrell Library will be closed Nov. 21st for Thanksgiving week, the exhibit will not be able to be open on the day of the OSU game).
An overview of the exhibit and digital versions of a selection of the materials displayed can be seen at http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/football/index.html
The football films can be viewed through a menu in the films section on the exhibit page above, as well as on a WSU Football Films Digital Collection page at http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cdm-football/
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