Raymond R. "Gaumey" Neal scrapbook
Collection Statement
Gaumey Neal's scrapbook contains mostly athletics-related items including team, group and individual photographs of the football and basketball teams that Gaumey Neal palyed for at Wabash College. Programs, tickets, newspaper clippings and schedules of athletic events are included such as a 1916 Wabash-Marquette game, the 1919 Wabash-DePauw game and the 1922 Washington and Jefferson Rose Bowl game against California in which Gaumey Neal participated. The scrapbook includes a congratulatory telegram from Genevieve following the game. Other items include athletic ribbons, a football button, calling cards of friends, numerous dance cards, many postcards of places visited such as the Morrison Hotel in Chicago, his Lambda Chi Alpha membership card and a letter admitting him to membership in the Wingate, Ind. Masons, and some photographs taken at a professional baseball game (probably Chicago White Sox) as well as scorecards from several games. There is also an excellent advertisement for the 1918 Chicago Cubs. Two other items of note are a program for a football game between the Buffalo All-Americans and the Detroit Tigers, Oct. 30, 1921; and a drawing on blueprint paper of the Play-By-Play Electrical Football Scoreboard in operation at the Globe Theater for the 1922 Rose Bowl game.
Dates
- 1916 - 1962
Creator
- Neal, Raymond R., 1897-1977 (Author, Person)
- Neal, Pearl Genevieve Cottrell (class of 1922) (Author, Person)
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Usage Restrictions
Copyright interests for this collection are held by DePauw University or the United Methodist Church.
Biographical Note
Raymond R. "Gaumey" Neal is legendary as a DePauw football coach and molder of men. Between 1929 and 1946 he coached DePauw teams to a combined record of 80-34-6 including the renowned 1933 team which was undefeated, untied and unscored upon. His home town was Wingate, Indiana and he attended nearby Wabash College from 1918-1921. He married Pearl Genevieve Cottrell (DePauw class of 1922), also from Wingate, Indiana, in 1919. Though he eventually earned his degree at Wabash College, he spent the 1921-1922 academic year at Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, Pennsylvania) where he earned All-American honors on Washington and Jefferson’s 1922 Rose Bowl team. Then came stints as a professional, first with the Akron Indians and then with the Hammond Pros. He commuted to the games from his home in Wingate. Raymond Neal became DePauw University's head football coach in 1929 and retired from active coaching in 1946 becoming the university’s athletic director and head of Department of Physical Education. In 1954 he retired from the university and became Greencastle’s postmaster. The 1933 team's tribute to him is the fieldhouse in the Lilly Center that they donated in his name in 1982. Coach Neal died in 1977, not long after he was elected to the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1975.
Source: DePauw Athletics, Athletics Hall of Fame.
Extent
1.06 Cubic Feet (1 large flat box)
Language of Materials
English
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Wesley Wilson
- Date
- 6/4/2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of DePauw University and Indiana United Methodism Repository
Roy O. West Library
405 S. Indiana St.
Greencastle Indiana 46135 United States
archives@depauw.edu
