St. Mary’s College Army-Navy Football Game Programs, 1926-1945

GOGA 33780

Golden Gate National Recreation Area
ATTN: Park Archives and Records Center
Building 201, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
[Mailing Address]	Park Archives and Records Center
Presidio of San Francisco
Building 667 McDowell Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94129
[Physical Address]	

www.nps.gov/goga/historyculture

Phone: 415-561-2807
Fax: 415-441-1618

Susan Ewing Haley, Park Archivist
Introduction
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Park Description

Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), a unit of the National Park Service, was established by an Act of Congress on October 27, 1972. The 80,000-acre park encompasses a great diversity of cultural and natural resources in and around the Bay Area of San Francisco, California.  It includes Muir Woods National Monument and Fort Point National Historic Site.

The park holds almost five million three-dimensional and documentary artifacts dating from the time before European contact to the present.  They are preserved and maintained for the public by the Division of Cultural Resources and Museum Management, which includes the Park Archives and Records Center (PARC). 
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Historical Note

GGNRA and the sites within it have been collecting records since their inception. The PARC was established in 1994 to receive records and archival collections from the U.S. Army and the Presidio Army Museum after the closure of the Presidio of San Francisco as an Army base. The collections continue to grow through the donation of materials by private individuals, transfer of inactive park records by staff, and acquisition of relevant documentary materials.
Scope of Collections

The archival collections in the custody of the GGNRA document the history and activity of the various sites and groups associated with the park, described in the park’s Scope of Collection Statement (2009). 

The PARC contains U.S. Army and National Park Service facility records for the Presidio of San Francisco, forts and coast defense sites in the area, and various GGNRA sites.  Subjects and sites documented include the United States Army (Bear Flag Revolt, Civil War, Spanish-American War, Mexican War, World War I, Army Air Service, Coast Artillery, Army medical facilities and issues, World War II, Army support during natural disasters, Viet Nam War, and Operation Desert Storm); Alcatraz Island (Army fortress, Army Disciplinary Barracks, U.S. Penitentiary, and Indian Occupation); the natural resources conservation movement resulting in the establishment of Muir Woods National Monument; agriculture in the Marin Headlands; Point Reyes Peninsula and Bolinas Lagoon areas; U.S. Lifesaving/Coast Guard Services; San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906; Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915; natural resources and environmental issues; and preservation of open space in the Bay Area.  Also included in the PARC are many of the GGNRA administrative records that document the development and expansion of this park.
Visiting the PARC for Research

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Copy Services 

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Rights and Publications

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Legal Status of Holdings

Many holdings of the PARC were acquired/transferred prior to the establishment of the archives program, and have little documentation on their provenance (source/chain of custody).  All materials received after 1994 have been accessioned and documented.  If provenance cannot be determined, the PARC assumes that it owns the property rights, but does not own the copyright. Staff will provide assistance, but it is the responsibility of the researcher to acquire permission from the copyright holder to cite, quote, or reproduce collection materials.

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Donations to the Collections

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	Mailing Address: 
	National Park Service					
	Golden Gate National Recreation Area
	Attn:  Park Archives and Records Center		
	Fort Mason, Bldg. 201
	San Francisco, CA  94123

	Physical Address:
		Park Archives and Records Center
		Presidio of San Francisco
Building 667 McDowell Avenue
		San Francisco, CA 94129
		Phone:	(415) 561-2807
		Fax: (415) 441-1618

St. Mary’s College Army-Navy Football Game Programs

Title
	St. Mary’s College Army-Navy Football Game Programs

Dates
	1926-1945

Collection Number
	Catalog Number GOGA 33780 (Accession Number GOGA-1766)

Provenance
The collection was donated to the Presidio Army Museum (PAM) by the librarian of St. Mary’s College Library in March of 1990, and was then acquired by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) in 1994 when the Presidio of San Francisco was closed and transferred from the U.S. Army to the National Park Service (NPS).

Volume
	7 Items [.1 LF]

Description
The collection consists of four [4] souvenir programs from Army vs. Navy Armistice Day football games held at the University of California Memorial Stadium from 1926 to 1930; one [1] program from the California National Guard Artillery vs. Infantry game held at the University of California Memorial Stadium in 1936; one [1] program from the Army-Notre Dame Rally football game held at Notre Dame in 1943; and one [1] program from the U.S. Navy Football Classic between the Fleet City Blue Jackets and the Pacific Fleet All-Stars held at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco in 1945. 

History
The annual Army-Navy football game began in 1890 and featured college teams from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York and the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. In the 1890s, an officer at the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot decided the Army football team needed a mascot to rival the Navy’s goat mascot. A mule was selected since the animal had historically been used to haul army equipment due to its strength, heartiness and perseverance. During the 1899 game, a white mule pulling an ice-wagon was present on the sidelines and was thought to have helped the Army to a 17-5 victory over the Navy. Since that game, mules have been a mainstay on the sidelines as the Army’s mascot. Originally, they were either selected from the stables at West Point or borrowed from nearby stables at away games. Not much is known about the official mascot mules until 1936 when a mule named Mr. Jackson (named for Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson) arrived from Front Royal, Virginia and served as the team’s mascot for twelve years and two national championships. Currently, the mascots are trained by cadet “Mule Riders” and are cared for by members of the Army Veterinary Corps. 

Preferred Citation
Golden Gate NRA, Park Archives, St. Mary’s College Army-Navy Football Game Programs, GOGA 33780.”

Index
Armistice Day—United States
Army-Navy Football Game
California Memorial Stadium (Berkeley, Calif.)
Kezar Stadium (San Francisco, Calif.)
	University of Notre Dame—Football 
United States. Army National Guard
	United States. Army National Guard. Artillery Regiment, 250th 
Untied States. Army National Guard. Infantry Regiment, 159th 
United States. Army—Sports 
United States. Navy—Sports 

Formats
	Souvenir program

Processing Information
	Processed by Nicole Meldahl,
	Completed in February 2012.