N.Y.A.C. Annual Indoor Games Track Medal, 1945
date: label: Date made
content: 1945
name: label: user
content: Levine, Ben
label: maker
content: Dieges & Clust
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Round, gold-colored medal attached to the bottom of a red and white ribbon. A red and white rhinestone shoe is in the center of the medal. "N.Y.A.C. Annual Indoor Games 1945" is printed in gold on the front of the ribbon. Safety pin attached to top of ribbon. Screw cup attached to foot through back of metal which detached. This belonged to the donor's father, Ben Levine. Levine was a participant in the development of amateur sports competition from 1902 as a boy of 13 when he went to work for James Sullivan, President of the Amateur Athletic Union until his retirement from the A.A.U. in 1968. Levine's primary contribution was to Amateur boxing, which he first promoted prior to 1920. He staged the first Golden Gloves and was the Assistant Manager of the U.S. Boxing teams at the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games and an international jurist in boxing at the Olympics in 1932.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Track and Field
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bertram Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0049.11
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0049.11
label: accession number
content: 1991.0049
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal, track
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 8.255 cm