Skip to Main Content

Joyce Sports Research Collection

RBSC's Joyce Sports Research Collection is one of the largest accumulations of sports-related print and manuscript matter in the world, facilitating scholarly inquiry into the history, sociology, and economics of American sports and their antecedents abro

College Football Media Guides

The Joyce Sports Research Collection, Department of Special Collections, University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries holds thousands of football media guides issued by college and universities .The collection includes football media guides (5,000+), conference media guides (200+), bowl game media guides (about 50), and college fall sports media guides (about 200), which emphasize football but also contain information about fall sports.

College Football Game Programs

Holdings of college football game programs. The collection includes more than 17,000 regular-season football game programs from every region of the country dating back to the nineteenth century. The collection also holds more than 500 post-season college bowl game programs, including significant runs of programs for the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl, and Orange Bowl, in addition to other bowl games. And the collection includes dozens of programs from post-season charity all-star games.