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University of Denver

 Organization

Biography

The first reference to Colorado Seminary was in The Rocky Mountain News of November 27, 1862: “ a board of Trustees, composed of the solid men of Denver, has been organized to superintend the erection of a seminary building… for an academic education.”

Sources

Breck, "From the Rockies to the World"

Biography

University of Denver votes to adopt quarter system in 1929.

Sources

"University Adopts New Quarter Plan; Vote Unanimous," The Denver Clarion, vol. 34, no. 19, November 26, 1929, 1.

Biography

First year Hillel organization features full programming at DU

Citation:
Jan. 30, 1974, letter to faculty, U172._.0003, Hillel folder

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

1892 University of Denver Men's Football Team, 1892

 Item
Identifier: U300.01.0002.00180.00001
Abstract

The 1892 University of Denver men's football team poses for a group portrait indoors. Copy negative made from halftone photo mechanical print. Back row (left to right): Horace Avery, William Myer, J. Stanley Edwards, J. R. Swenson, Percy Thomas, unidentified. Middle row: Clyde Stevens, Walter Lipe, T. L. A. Shaffer, Jules F. Warnecke, John Morgan. Bottom row: Joe Post, Jesse Thornton, Mr. Young, Dr. Whitney. Re-photographed 20th century.

Dates: 1892
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / U300, Division of Athletics and Recreation Records / Athletics and Recreation Photographs / Box 2

Eddie Miller Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M281
Abstract Born in Leetonia (now part of Hibbing), Minnesota, Eddie Miller was a hockey player and coach. He was a member of the first hockey team at the University of Denver, and in 1952 became the first DU player to win All-American honors. He played on the US national hockey team in 1958 and later coached high school hockey in Baudette and Wayzata, Minnesota. The Eddie Miller Papers contain material related to his sports career at the University of Denver and elsewhere. The material was gathered...
Dates: 1949-2000
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Eddie Miller Papers

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