Sports in Curriculum

South Carolina has a rich athletic history and a number of sucessful athletes call South Carolina home. The Sports in South Carolina collection tells the stories of these athletes and sports teams.

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Frank Howard 102
Frank Howard
Episode 102

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Nearly every morning, Coach Howard and friends meet for coffee at a restaurant near the Clemson campus. Coach Howard then discusses his coaching career while taking viewers around his home, and the...
Frank Howard 103
Frank Howard
Episode 103

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Coach Frank Howard joins host Tom Fowler for an interview. Coach Howard discusses his organization activities since retiring, the high points of his career, how football teams traveled, and how...
Frank Howard 101
Frank Howard
Episode 101

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Coach Frank Howard, also known as “The Bashful Baron of Barlow Bend,” had an illustrious career as the head coach of the Clemson Tigers football team. After he retired from Clemson, Coach Howard...
Bobby Richardson 102
Bobby Richardson
Episode 102

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

During his days playing baseball, Bobby Richardson spent a lot of time away from home. However now that he is head coach of the University of South Carolina’s baseball team, he is able to spend much...
Bobby Richardson 101
Bobby Richardson
Episode 101

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Segment one expands on Bobby Richardson’s life and career. Richardson played as second baseman for the New York Yankees for ten and a half years, and holds several World Series records! Richardson...
Hunting | South Carolina Public Radio
Hunting | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

"H" is for Hunting. Hunting has long been an important component of the Palmetto State’s culture. Indians hunted a wide assortment of game for food from as early as 13,000 B.C.E. Colonists also...
Doby, Lawrence Edward | South Carolina Public Radio
Doby, Lawrence Edward | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

"D" is for Doby, Lawrence Edward [1923-2003]. Baseball Player. Larry Doby was the first African American to play baseball in the American League and the second African American to manage a major...
Nascar or Football? | Take on the South 13
Nascar or Football? | Take on the South
Episode 13

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Dr. Walter Edgar, Dr. Daniel Pierce, Author and History Department Chair, University of North Carolina, Asheville, and Dr. Harvey "Hardy" Jackson III, Author and Eminent Scholar in History...
From Coach to Teacher | Palmetto Scene
From Coach to Teacher | Palmetto Scene

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Chapin High School Principal Dr. Akil Ross was recently named the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) 2018 National Principal of the Year. In this clip, Dr. Ross talks about...
Hunting Wild Turkeys | History Of SC Slide Collection
Hunting Wild Turkeys | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Hunting wild turkeys has been a sport and a means of providing food in South Carolina since before the arrival of the first European settlers. This turkey was shot by Calder W. Seibels of Columbia...
Boxing | History Of SC Slide Collection
Boxing | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 13

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This boxing match was one of many events that made the new Community Building built by the Mill a center for leisure-time activities of the Winnsboro Mill operatives and their families around 1929...
A Polo Match In Aiken | History Of SC Slide Collection
A Polo Match In Aiken | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 12

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A polo match in Aiken. Both Aiken and Camden have been noted for polo matches, and for sportsmen who raise and train the polo ponies essential to this mounted team sport. 1930s, WPA. Courtesy of the...
Columbia All-Stars | History Of SC Slide Collection
Columbia All-Stars | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 6

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Columbia All-Stars were an African-American professional baseball team. Photo by Walter Livingston Blanchard, ca. 1920. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
Manly Field | History Of SC Slide Collection
Manly Field | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Manly Field, Furman, 1929--the first football stadium in the South Atlantic to be lighted for games at night. A newspaper account of the first night game played there reports that the lights were on...
Joe Tilghman | History Of SC Slide Collection
Joe Tilghman | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Joe Tilghman, who played for Furman University, was named All State End in 1924, 1925, and 1926. From the Baptist Historical Collection. Courtesy of the Furman University Archives Special Collections...