Summary: | The 1960-1982 scrapbook has approximately sixty-one photographs and thirty-four of those have captions either identifying the person(s) or the event. There are also fifty-three newspaper clippings. The ROTC Rifle Team events and people documented in this scrapbook include statewide collegiate rifle competitions, Rifle Team named State Champions, 1969-1970; 1st and 2nd place All-Alabama, 1st place ROTC Team; Rifle Team named State Champions, 1970-1971; Rifle Team named State Champions, 1971-1972; extensive coverage of Emily Ruch, second female in University of Alabama history to earn an athletic varsity letter; and coverage from The Commercial Appeal, 1974 February 3, concerning women's equality struggles in athletics, effects from Title IX passage in 1972, and comments from Wilma Rudolph. Cadre: Coaches CPT Gene New; SGM Curtis Duco.The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries.
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