Washington and Lee University Pennant
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950s
name: label: associated institution
content: Washington and Lee University
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pennant representing Washington and Lee University is blue with white lettering and images of Washington and Lee with "Generals" written beneath them. Washington and Lee participated in the first intercollegiate football game in the south when they met the Virginia Military Institute in November of 1873. Washington and Lee also featured the first intercollegiate use of a curve ball when their pitcher, George Augustus Sykes, used the pitch to defeat the University of Virginia 12-0 on May 20, 1878. Washington and Lee was also a founding member of the Southern Conference along with Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. Washington and Lee would win two Southern Conference titles in football (1934, 1950). Washington and Lee would become the first team from to participate in a New Year's bowl game when they went to the Gator Bowl in 1951 to face Wyoming. The team would lose 20-7 although they were missing one of their star players who was sitting out due to an appendectomy.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Education
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: High School
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0257.056
label: accession number
content: 1982.0257
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0257.056
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pennant, collegiate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 27 in; 27.94 cm x 68.58 cm