Francis Albert Schmidt scrapbooks, 1911-1922

File

Identifier: 1979-017

Staff Only

Content Description

4 volumes of scrapbooks of TU athletic and other events. At least one volume contains photographs of WWI era soldiers training.

Dates

Creation: 1911 - 1922

Creator

Schmidt, Francis (Francis Albert), 1885-1944 (Photographer, Person)

Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader.

Use and Copyright

This material is owned by the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections. While the copyright entered the public domain on 1 January 2015 permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must still be secured from the repository.

Biographical / Historical

Francis Albert “Close the Gates of Mercy” Schmidt (December 3, 1885 – September 19, 1944) was football coach at Henry Kendall College from 1915 until 1922 after the College had become the University of Tulsa. He became Head Coach in 1919. After leaving Tulsa, he went onto Arkansas, Texas Christian and Ohio State. At Ohio he won two Big Ten Conference championships and was eventually inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schmidt was an avid photographer, learned from his father, Francis Walter Schmidt, a professional photographer.