Big Ten College Pennants
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
notes: label: Description
content: This string of small, multi-colored pennants represents the Big Ten Conference. The pennants are connected by a heavy black string. The colleges represented are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State University, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue and Wisconsin. The Big Ten Conference was founded in 1896 and is the oldest athletic conference in Division I sports. In 1896, representatives from the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin gathered to set policies to regulate intercollegiate athletics. The University of Indiana and the University of Iowa would join the conference in 1899, followed by Ohio State University in 1912 and Michigan State in 1950. The University of Chicago would leave the conference by the 1940s. In more recent history, Pennsylvania State University joined the conference in 1990, Nebraska in 2011, and then Maryland and Rutgers in 2014.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: collegiate
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: 2003.3027.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2003.3027
label: catalog number
content: 2003.3027.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: String of Pennants
label: Object Name
content: pennants, collegiate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 126 cm x 22.5 cm; 49 5/8 in x 8 7/8 in