University of Denver

Black and white print of eighteen female students who were candidates for Homecoming Queen at the University of Denver, including Betty Fern Hoyt, who was named queen that year. The photo is taken from the top of a set of stairs, with the subjects looking up at the camera.

Black and white negative depicting five candidates for Homecoming Queen at the University of Denver in 1968. The candidates are seated on square upholstered benches and looking up at the camera.

Black and white negative depicting five candidates for Homecoming Queen at the University of Denver in 1968. The candidates are seated on square upholstered benches in front of a raised stage, with a grand piano in the background.

Black and white negative depicting five candidates for Homecoming Queen at the University of Denver in 1968. The candidates are leaning on a counter, and a sign in the background reads "Homecoming Queen 1968."

Black and white print of three female students at a University of Denver homecoming activity in Denver, Colorado. One of the students the Rio Grande football trophy bell, and other two are stopping their ears with their fingers. The bell is inscribed "Rio Grande Railroad Football Trophy University of Utah University of Denver" and lists the results of the games between the two schools from 1949 to 1953.

Black and white print of the Sigma Kappa float in the University of Denver's Homecoming parade in 1946. Like many homecoming floats, this one taunted DU's opponent in the homecoming football game, the University of Utah. Four female students' heads appear in the center of giant cards made to look like aces of each suit, above a depiction of poker chips and the slogan "We Hold 'Em, Utes."

Black and white print of four apparently female students dressed up in football uniforms for Homecoming 1957 at the University of Denver. The students are wearing bandages on their faces and legs, and of them is preparing to snap the football to another. The room behind them is decorated with streamers, University of Denver pennants, and signs reading "No More Broadway Park!", "Press Box," and "Coach Crying Towel Ser[vice?]."

An unidentified man takes a photograph of two women, apparently a University of Denver student and her mother, at the bottom of the bleachers in University of Denver Stadium during Parents Weekend.

The bulk of the records in this collection have been generated by the Media Relations unit, which is an administrative unit within the University of Denver Division of Athletics and Recreation. These records include: media guides, game programs, team rosters, press releases, photographs, and related promotional materials.

Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate commencement and Insignia ceremony, March Seventeenth,1944. Conferring of degrees: Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington. The commencement address was given by Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington.