Newspaper article by Ted Thompson, Observer Staff Correspondent Titled "7500 Spectators See Monk's Club Clip Blue Devils". Davidson Wildcats Win State Championship. Beat the Duke Blue Devils. Davidson team members listed are coach Monk Younger, Bohannon, Lincoln, Laws, McConnell, Boggs, Ritchie, Pinkney, Wilson, Wells, D. Grey and Nisbet. Duke team members listed Kelly, Thompson, Eanes, Brummitt, Jones, Weatherby, Bennett, Weaver, Frank, Tuttle, and Wyrick. Coverage of the plays and details of the game.
Newspaper article titled "Team Work, Big Fight and Good Backing". Special to the Observer. Article describes coaches Monk Younger and Ted Tilson and their hard work together to build up the success of the Davidson Wildcats Football Team.
Newspaper article titled "Davidson Collegians Win With Light Team". Handwritten note "Baltimore American". Davidson, N.C. Nov. 27. The article describes Davidson's football season and its players who weigh, on average, 160 pounds as compared to the other teams they play where those players weigh about 15 more pounds per man. Davidson won against North Carolina State, tied Wake Forest, and lost to Virgina Military Institute. Davidson humbled the University of North Carolina. Davidson also won against Elon, Wofford, Guildford, Presbyterian College, and lost to Hampton-Sidney. Team members mentioned include Buck Flowers, Wolly Grey, Dick Grey, coach Monk Younger and Tex Tilson.
Student scrapbook page with postcard from Aubrey Brown to his mother saying that he has arrived in Memphis, TN. Excerpts from letters written by Brown describing events at Davidson.
Built in 1829, Beaver Dam was home to Major William Lee Davidson II and his wife, Betsy Lee Davidson. The plantation lands eventually encompassed 785 acres and had 25 to 30 hands. The plantation included the house, a large garden, a smokehouse, a chicken house, and slave quarters. After Betsy Davidson's death in 1845, the house went out of the Davidson family for almost one hundred years. It was purchased in 1937 by Chalmers Gaston Davidson, a collateral descendent of William Lee and Library Director and history professor at Davidson College. It was listed as a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Site in 1977 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. In 1998, Davidson College purchased the house and eight acres of adjoining lands and leased it to the Town of Davidson as a public park.
Davidson College Presbyterian Church minister Carl Pritchett talks with Mr. and Mrs. Lowery in front of their recently burned home with a crowd watching them.
